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2G Most Dominant Technology In Nigeria: NCC

THE Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said the second generation (2G) technology is dominant in the country.

The regulatory declaration is coming at a time mobile network operators (MNOs) in the country are boasting 3G and 4G long term evolution (LTE) service to their subscribers.

NCC Executive Vice Chairman/CEO,  Prof Garba Dambatta, who spoke in Lagos at the weekend, said 2G technology accounts for 90 per cent of total coverage in the country.

In his key note address at the fourth Quarter Seminar of  Nigerian Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) with the theme: Achieving Last-Mile Connectivity through Broadband, Dambatta said the Commission was working hard to get every nook and cranny of the country connected.

He said: “Generally, the most pervasive networks are on 2G coverage and reaches about 90 per cent of the population, while the 3G or 4G coverage is still low while some sections of the country still has  little or no coverage at all.”

Represented by the Deputy Director/Head, Special Intervention Projects, Dr Henry Nkemadu, the NCC chief said the “last mile” or “last kilometer” is a phrase widely used in the telecoms, cable television and internet industries to refer to the final leg of the telecoms networks that deliver telecoms services to retail end-users (customers).

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He said more specifically, the last mile refers to the portion of the telecoms network chain that physically reaches the end-user’s premises, adding that examples could be found in  copper wire telephones to the local telephone exchange; coaxial cable service drops carrying cable television signals from utility poles to subscribers’ homes and cell towers linking local cell phones to the cellular network.

He said another example is fixed wireless access, where a wireless network is used instead of wires to connect a stationary terminal to the wireline network.

Dambatta said: “Various solutions are being developed which are seen as an alternative to the last mile of standard incumbent local exchange carriers. These include WiMax and broadband over power lines. Today, we have an appreciable number of submarine cables landing in Nigeria, delivering a capacity of about 9 Terabits to the country, but mainly limited to landing points in the Lagos areas and some coastal states (Ondo, Delta, Rivers and Bayelsa).

“The Commission has been making efforts to enable the companies extend this massive capacity inland through various regulatory instruments and interventions to drive down costs and for security reasons.”

He said many of the MNOs have islands of cables interconnected in areas of high traffic such as Lagos with multiple fibre cable coverage, leaving other regions with lack of coverage. “This poor network planning therefore, contributes to poor last mile connectivity in Nigeria,” he said.

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On the  Commission’s focus  on  broadband, he said it understood that the core of robust and reliable telecoms service is broadband infrastructure, which provides the needed impetus to achieve last mile connectivity.

He said: “Our commitment to achieve the three ‘A’s of Availability, Accessibility and Affordability is hinged on broadband deployment across the country.  Facilitation of Broadband penetration is the number one item and flagship of our 8-point Agenda. The potential in broadband penetration is enormous, which explains why the entire global community is investing huge resources to exploit and assimilate broadband that is expected to guide global economic index of development in the future.

 

 

Source: The Nation

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