The number of identified areas of cluster across Nigeria without access to telecommunications services has been reduced by 53.1 per cent as of the end of
The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, disclosed this at a recent telecoms industry stakeholders forum in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Access gaps refer to the cluster of communities or grouped areas in different parts of the country that are bereft of access to telecom services, and till date, the NCC has reduced clusters of access gap by more than half. “By 2022, we have reduced the clusters of access gaps to 97 from 207 in 2013. The number of Nigerians again have come down from 37 million in 2013 to 27 million as we speak. We achieved this by deploying, from 2009 to 2011, a total of 79 new base transceiver stations.”
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