Nigeria among top three emerging broadband markets – Huawei

The report which is the West African edition says Nigeria has a small fixed base but huge potential in the uptake of mobile products as it is one of the world’s largest mobile subscriber markets and offers impressive opportunities primarily in the mobile broadband space, where rapid m-Commerce uptake is driving market growth. It also […]

The report which is the West African edition says Nigeria has a small fixed base but huge potential in the uptake of mobile products as it is one of the world’s largest mobile subscriber markets and offers impressive opportunities primarily in the mobile broadband space, where rapid m-Commerce uptake is driving market growth. It also identifies Nigerians as the highest number of internet users in Africa all of which accumulates to an improved potential within the country.
 Overall, the 2015 GCI shows that 20% growth in ICT investment will increase a country’s GDP by 1%.
The report listed five enablers of digital transformation as data centers, cloud services, Big Data, broadband, and the Internet of Things.
According to the GCI findings, these technologies represent the targets that stakeholders should focus their investments on in order to most efficiently transform their economies for the digital age.
Huawei forecasts that by 2025, as many as 100 billion connections will be generated globally, 90 percent of which will come from intelligent sensors.
President of Huawei Western Africa Region, Mr. Peng Song ‎who made a presentation about the GCI at the Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) West Africa 2015 in Lagos said the survey covering 50 countries including Nigeria among others and 90% of the world’s population sheds light on the growing opportunities around the world.