How to bridge national infrastructure gap – Phase3

With a visional 2018 operational timeline that has commenced by pulling the right partnerships for an infrastructure build-out that offer top line network services, scalable enterprise and converged service solutions that will see people especially in rural communities rapidly leverage the opportunities of broadband – West Africa’s largest independent tier II telecommunications services provider, Phase3 […]

With a visional 2018 operational timeline that has commenced by pulling the right partnerships for an infrastructure build-out that offer top line network services, scalable enterprise and converged service solutions that will see people especially in rural communities rapidly leverage the opportunities of broadband – West Africa’s largest independent tier II telecommunications services provider, Phase3 Telecom has welcomed efforts to re-define national and sub-regional telecommunications landscape.

 Phase3 Telecom’s Head of Marketing Communications, Morayo Nwabufo told Daily Trust in a chat that it requires an unwavering commitment of all government agencies in charge of and responsible for infrastructure at national and state levels to work with and support the roll-out of fibre optics to provide metro infrastructure that will in turn support a whole information powered eco-system.

 “Phase3 believes that policies that allow telecom infrastructure companies to thrive is certain to attract more investments to support the capital expenditure programmes that needs to be undertaken to realize the country’s vision of digital transformation that will launch Nigeria into a truly hyper-connected age as seen in Japan”, she said. 

She said digital transformation is not just about technology or technological industries as often hyped but rides heavily on a smartly structured operational process to be successful and that process must live on a bedrock of thriving telecom infrastructure that is rolled out to support broadband services.` 

 There is need, she said, to sustain partnerships geared towards culling more investment in broadband infrastructure deployment, “so Nigerians can make use of the enormous deposits of broadband capacities available to the country to increase broadband penetration which is now at 21% and to make Nigeria’s broadband initiative a faster reality.” 

“Thus, worthy of note is the National Economic Council (NEC) decision to constitute a multi-stakeholder committee to execute its decision on the harmonization of Right of Way (RoW) charges and implementation strategies in January, 2018.

 “This is not only a huge encouragement for telecom service providers but a vital step in the right direction to achieving faster socio-economic development – especially quicker transition of the nation’s less penetrated towns, and villages into ICT driven havens”, she said.