Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC. Dr. Eugene Juwah has said that broadband is the next phase of telecommunication revolution, which every nation that aspires to succeed must embrace.

He said as a result of this imperative, NCC has made progress in the nation’s telecom sector to improve on broadband infrastructure.

Dr Juwah made this assertion at a five-day youth software training programme powered by the Jim Ovia Foundation, tagged “Developing Nigeria’s Next Generation of ICT Entrepreneurs” which held at the Civic Centre, Lagos, last week.

Broadband progress
“NCC has made significant progress to improve on broadband in Nigeria because we hope to be part of this global movement,” he stated.

Speaking to the youths attending the programme, Juwah described the internet as a two-edged sword, adding it has both good and bad sides, and that one of the aims of the programme was to address the good side of it. To maximize potentials of future generation, Juwah said knowledge remains a key factor to make it happen, which must be pursued with all seriousness and sense of purpose.

He urged the youths to take the good side of the internet, which he said will take them to the heights of their potential that will not only bring them pride but also ad value to the society.

“With the skills you acquired in this programme, can be used as a stepping stone to advance in knowledge, maximize your ICT potentials and certifications. That why NCC will continue to support in this digital awareness and advance digital awareness for higher institutions,” said the EVC.



Licenses
During an interactive session at the end the lecture, Dr Juwah also disclosed to newsmen that the commission will before end of this week issue licenses to operators to implement the proposed number portability services in Nigeria.

The action according to him, is in fulfilment of the commission’s promise to offer Nigerians the choice of switching from one network to another based on the quality of service rendered.

It will be recalled that the commission last year announced a consortium of Interconnect/Saab Grintek/Telcordia as the preferred vendor for the service after the technical, financial and demo presentations by the bidding vendors.

Number portability will allow subscribers move to alternate networks when they are no longer enjoying the quality of services being obtained from their current operators or when they are no longer happy with the tariffs offered by their current subscribers. They will still retain their original numbers irrespective of the new network from which they may be obtaining their services.

The EVC said that the operating companies to be licensed will be expected to set up and implement number portability clearing house and provide mobile number portability solutions administration in the country within six months of receiving the license with a testing period of two months, before embarking on full operation in the ninth month.

Further, the EVC vowed to bar unregistered SIM cards from the country’s mobile networks 30 days after the ongoing data harmonization process ends, which is expected to end this week.

Though a lot of Nigerians have registered their SIM cards, Juwah said unregistered subscribers will be barred from making calls until they have registered their SIM cards.

The NCC boss hinted that the data collected during the six-month SIM registration exercise was being uploaded onto NCC’s back up servers in Abuja, saying this was taking time due to the volume of the data.

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That's the global trend but with the massive fraud in EFCC, how soon are we getting there?

Whats EFCC got to do with Broadband?

There's no doubt that this is the next telecommunication boom; however, I don't know what NCC has to do with it apart from issuing the needed licenses.

Connecting to Glo and MainOne's backbone will be the key. There's WiMax and the telecom's 4G but more distribution type connection will be needed to support the population in the inner cities. Dangote already implemented interstate fiber connections but the intra city connections are still lacking.

this is all bullshit.they said number portability was gonna start working last year march and here they sayin different thing again.

What is the statistic of broadband users in Nigeria?

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You sure of that?

Wait, are they talking about the type they use in the U.S.? Hasn't Broadband been phased out? I thought we're moving into cable or even fiber optics? IT folks please explain better, this is not my field.

manny4life:

Wait, are they talking about the type they use in the U.S.? Hasn't Broadband been phased out? I thought we're moving into cable or even fiber optics? IT folks please explain better, this is not my field.

Broadband just means high speed internet. The medium (cable, fiber, air) does not really matter.

we have worst internet providers compare to amounts were paying,

Once the policy is implemented i'm gonna change frm MTN! Its a greedy netwrk that offerz no incentive

@aglomar,
EFCC and Broadband, correlation pls.

Is BB already in Nigeria? If not when exactly are we going to have it? I feel highly frustrated with my slow MTN modem whenever I am in Nigeria. I can't wait to have broadband in Nigeria.

In internet access CCITT defined "broadband service" in 1988 as requiring transmission channels capable of supporting bit rates greater than the primary rate which ranged from about 1.5 to 2 Mbit/s

from the definition above any network or internet service provider (isp) providing internet speed of 1.5Mbit/s and above is a broadband internet

here is a pic of airtel internet speed in Gombe State, Nigeria. For me this one is a broadband cos it is fast and i can watch video on youtube without pause or skip.

Broadband simply means the ability of your means of communication (internet or intranet) to support multiple services like voip, video on demand, data and other bandwidth consuming application over a single baseband channel. If u can watch youtube, browswe the internet and make voip calls over the internet at the same time, then welcome to the world of broadband. On the contrary, what we have as broadband is nothing but NARROW BAND SERVICE!!!!

ncpat, i think u should allow me take it frm here



am such a bullyy

It will be great and also greater if the tariffs are cheaper. Until is done then I will praise them cause I have learnt not to listen to their words again because they know how to talk and won't implement

tundeOjo:

ncpat, i think u should allow me take it frm here



am such a bullyy

What connection is that?

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etisalat baby

tundeOjo:

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etisalat baby

oh boy that speed na breeze true true ohh

My own definition of broadband internet service is 6 - 8 mbps. I have enjoyed broadband from time to time since 2006. The problem is here in Naija it doesn't last more than three years before service dips and na money kill am. It's even worse in recent times because the service I use limits it to 8 days out of a full month before the network strength becomes near unusable.