Nigeria: FG Sets 12 Percent Broadband Target for Telecom Operators

he federal government has set a 12 per cent broadband penetration target for the mobile service providers and fibre optic operators which would help take broadband to the rural communities around the nation.

LEADERSHIP learnt that Mrs. Omobola Johnson, Minister of Communications Technology has communicated the directive to the Nigerian Communications Commission for onward transmission to all the telecommunications companies in the country.

The directive is in line with the minister's mandate to ensure that Nigeria meets the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Broadband Commission For Digital Development demand that at least half the developing nation's population and 40 per cent of households in developing countries use broadband Internet by 2015. READ MORE