NCC holds second stakeholders’ forum on shared Duct Pricing under Nigeria’s Dig-Once Policy

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, brought unneurotic assorted stakeholders successful the manufacture successful Abuja connected Wednesday to deliberate connected the consultancy survey to make a pricing mechanics and cost-based operation for sharing ducts built nether the Dig-Once argumentation successful Nigeria.

The Second Stakeholders’ Forum aimed astatine presenting and validating findings from the consultancy survey connected a transparent, equitable and cost-based pricing model for shared duct infrastructure nether the Dig-Once Policy.

It was besides for stakeholders’ reappraisal of the projected pricing methodology, assumptions, and outputs of the study.

Speaking astatine the event, caput of Competition and Tariff of the Commission, Mrs Omotayo Mohammed, noted that the Commission engaged Silicon Base Limited successful 2023 to undertake the important survey successful designation of a cardinal spread successful the evolving model for the Dig-Once Policy.

She noted that portion the argumentation itself is inactive successful draught form, its palmy implementation volition beryllium heavy connected the constitution of a clear, transparent, and economically dependable attack to pricing and entree for shared duct infrastructure.

DAILY POST reports that the Dig-Once inaugural is fundamentally aimed astatine reducing the outgo and complexity of web deployment by promoting coordinated civilian works and the shared usage of underground duct infrastructure.

Mrs Mohammed noted, however, that with...