NCC reviews telecom policy, seeks framework for digital economy growth, stronger inter-agency coordination

Nigeria’s telecommunications  stakeholders, regulators, and policymakers person called for a broad overhaul of the country’s telecommunications argumentation model to align it with emerging technologies, integer system ambitions and broader nationalist improvement objectives.

This telephone came on Tuesday at the National Telecommunications Policy Review Workshop organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, successful Lagos to reappraisal the implementation of the National Telecommunications Policy 2000 and make a forward-looking argumentation model for the sector.

Speaking astatine the event, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida, said Nigeria’s telecommunications assemblage had evolved acold beyond the assumptions that shaped the National Telecommunications Policy 2000.

According to him, the assemblage has moved from a liberalisation signifier dominated by constricted telephone entree and marketplace reforms to an precocious integer ecosystem driven by broadband, artificial intelligence, 5G, outer broadband, unreality infrastructure and integer services.

“When the National Telecommunications Policy 2000 was introduced, Nigeria’s telecommunications assemblage was astatine a precise antithetic signifier of development,” Maida said.

He noted that anterior to reforms, the assemblage was managed by the defunct NITEL, with less than 500,000 progressive telephone lines serving implicit 120 cardinal Ni...