The World Bank has tasked Nigeria to increase its broadband penetration to provide internet access to people in rural areas and remote places. World Bank
The World Bank has tasked Nigeria to increase its broadband penetration to provide internet access to people in rural areas and remote places.
“The Ministry also did talk about broadband penetration. It is important to make sure that no one is left behind especially poor families mostly in rural areas. “I think the telecom sector has been quite key to Nigeria’s resilience in the last three years,” Chaudhuri said. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, while speaking, announced that by April this year, every state would have federal government optic fibre cable coverage.
He said further: “In Nigeria’s National Broadband Plan, we have a target to reduce the price of 1 gigabyte from N1200 to N390 but as of today, two years before the deadline, the current price of 1 gigabyte is N350. The minister said the two-day digital conference was necessitated by the need for the various West African countries to converge and brainstorm on how to boost the continent’s economy using Information Communication Technology .
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