Confirming this to ITRealms,
the Director, Public Affairs at NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo, said the approval has the
nod of the board of the commission.
He also said that with this approval, the number of Infracos
licenced so far is now four.
ITRealms recalls that over a year ago, MainOne Cable Company Limited, was licensed
to provide services in Lagos, while IHS got its licence to cover the North
Central geopolitical zone including Abuja.
The Infraco licenses,
Ojobo further said were based on the NCC’s Open Access Model (OAM) in line with
the National Broadband Plan (NBP) of (2013 – 2018).
According to him, by the provisions
of the NBP, Nigeria is expected to attain 30 per cent broadband penetration by
the end of 2018.
As part of the initiative
to achieve this, NCC, as the driver of this process, has so far licensed a
number of companies to stimulate broadband penetration.
“These include Bitflux
Communications Limited (Bitflux) for 2.3 Ghz and MTN Nigeria for the 2.6 Ghz
licences,” he said, noting that as at December, 2017, Nigeria has attained 22
per cent broadband penetration.
He emphasized that with
the licensing of four Infracos; MainOne Cable, IHS, Zinox Technology and Brinks
Solutions, there are three more licencees waiting for approval to bring total
number to seven.
“These are for South
South, North West and South West,” Ojobo assured.
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