ITU: Nigeria seeking Broadband Internet’s growth

The participation of Nigeria at the yearly International Telecommunications Union (ITU) conference will focus on deepening the growing broadband segment of the market in the country.
Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC), Mr Tony Ojobo stated this in a statement made available to Daily Times.
He said that a high level delegation will be led to the event by the Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdulraheem Adebayo Shittu, Nigeria’s Chief Telecoms Regulator and Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, including industry stakeholders and operators.
The ITU Telecom World 2017, is due to hold in Busan, South Korea, from September 25 – 28, 2017.
It is a global platform for major industry players, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), countries and organisations to network and share ideas about new developments and technologies that would lead to better connected societies.

Daily Times gathered that it is an event for international visibility of innovative Information and Communications Technology (ICT), products/services and solutions from around the world.

In general terms, it involves high level debates on the core issues affecting ICT industry, sharing knowledge and working for sustainable development.

Although, Nigeria has had a very robust telecommunications sector with active connected subscribers in the region of 150million and about 110 percent teledensity, the NCC believes that more efforts should be deployed to deepen broadband penetration.

By the National Broadband Plan, NBP (2013 – 2018) the country is expected to attain 30 per cent broadband penetration by 2018, which currently stands at 21 per cent.

Nigeria will host an investment forum at ITU Telecom World 2017; and Broadband Nigeria will be at the focus of discussions.