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Next-Generation Telecoms
Nigeria’s telecoms industry is getting ready for the future
Driven by both the government and the private sector, new communications technologies are expanding the potentials for profitability in all sectors of the economy, as well as bringing the country closer to reaching the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Services and Employment for the Underserved
In a country that adopted mobile telephony at astonishing speed, adapting to innovations in telecoms technology is not proving difficult. Across the country, companies are rolling out new technologies that are equal to those being considered and adopted in developed markets, enabling Nigeria to take its place at the forefront of telecoms on the continent.
Talking to the world using VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) allows voice calls to be sent as digital information over a connection to the Internet. The technology can be used to bypass limited fixed-line infrastructure and to bring down the cost and increase the reliability of international calls, helping companies to do business more effectively in the globalised economy. Only ten African countries have legalised the use of VoIP, and of these, many have stifled the technology by issuing insufficient licences for its use. But VoIP is booming in Nigeria, already carrying the bulk of the country’s international voice traffic. The use of VoIP remained a grey area in terms of regulation for some years. During this period, seeing a threat to its dominance, the incumbent fixed-line operator, Nitel, filed complaints with the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
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