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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) -
Nigeria has achieved a teledensity of 50 per cent, vault
ing from 0.4 per cent in 2000,
according to the head of the country's regulatory Nigerian Communications Commis
sion (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe.
Teledensity measures the number of telephone lines per every 100 people in a par
ticular region.
The 50 per cent teledensity translates to over 70 million telephone lines, the h
ighest in Africa which has a subscriber
base of 280 million.
Ndukwe spoke at the weekend, ahead of his expected departure as head of the NCC
in February 2010.
He presided over what is widely regarded as a telecommunications revolution in t
he country, starting with the award of licences
to four Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM) firms in 2001 - the hi
ghlight of the liberalisation of the sector.
''Since then, the nation has not been the same. Telephone signal tones can be ac
cessed in all the (36) states of the federation,'' the private
Guardian newspaper Monday quoted him as saying.
Ndukwe also noted that Internet usage had increased across the country, noting t
hat the NCC had been at the forefront of initiating some
of the successful projects that had helped to increase ICT connectivity and use
in Nigeria.
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| Lagos - 23/11/2009 |
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