THE National Communications Commission (NCC) has said everything has been put in place in Nigeria to upgrade to 5G network.
The Commissioner of Stakeholders Management, Sunday Dare who disclosed this while interacting with communication correspondents in Abuja, also said that other telecoms in Nigeria would also be listed at the Stock Exchange.
“NCC did not just sit back. Apart from constantly engaging with state governors through NEC of Nigeria Governors Forum, we have also stepped in directly by licensing InfraCos to provide fibre bandwidth on open-access bases. We are providing them with a subsidy to mitigate their costs.
“We expect this to start bearing fruit shortly, but the major thing is the support of the state governors. That is critical. Nigeria is a federation of 36 states; we cannot dictate what to charge for RoW to them, we can only persuade them and hope they see the superior merit and long-term benefits of making their states receptive to telecoms infrastructure,” he said.
He said with the successful listing of MTN on the stock market, it was expected that Airtel which had already announced its intention, would soon be enlisted on Nigerian Stock Market, along side Globacom and 9Mobile.
Furthermore, he explained that the National Broadband Plan had both mobile and fixed components, which NCC is exerting action in both directions.
Source: tribune
