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VC Covenant Univesity Prof. Charles Ayo, Jim Ovia second from left with ISPON president
Chris Uwaje and wife, Prof Charles Uwadie ISPON VP John Obaro and Mr Agu |
The chairman, Visafone Communications Limited, Mr. Jim Ovia,
has warned that despite the clamour for broadband in the country, it may not be
as affordable and cheap as most Nigerians were made to believe.
In a speech as a special guest speaker at the 2013
Presidential Dinner organized by the Institute of Software Practitioners of
Nigeria (ISPON) in Lagos, last weekend, Ovia insisted that the event signifies that
software industry in Nigeria is recognized, given the attendance of the dinner.
“So, what is needed more is the passion not profit oriented at the initial
times. So, the best way to invest in ICT, especially software, is the passion,”
he said.
Ovia warned that access to broadband is not cheap and may not go down, ultimately.
Broadband refers to using signals over a wide range of frequencies in
high-capacity telecommunications, especially as used for access to the
Internet.
“Access to broadband is not cheap and may not go down eventually, the only
technology that can be cheap today is the voice,” he asserted.
Hence, access to data at broadband speed, Ovia said, cannot be cheap, stressing
though that internet penetration is about 23 per cent, but the broadband is
about 2-3 per cent at present.
Nollywood is more popular now because its access online, urging that Nigerians
should take advantage of Internet based on the anticipated evolution of
broadband for more business and investment.
ITRealms recalls that the term
broadband,
according to experts at Wikipedia
refers to the wide
bandwidth characteristics of a
transmission medium and its ability to transport multiple signals and traffic
types simultaneously. The medium can be
coax,
optical
fiber,
twisted pair or
wireless.
In
contrast,
baseband,
describes a communication system in which information is transported across a
single channel.
Prior to the invention of home broadband,
dial-up Internet access was the only means
by which one could access the
Internet and download files such as songs, movies, e-mails,
etc. It would take anywhere from 10–30 minutes to download one song
(3.5 MB) and over 28 hours to download a movie 700 Mega Bytes (MB).
Dial-up Internet was also considered very inconvenient as it would impair
the use of the home
telephone line,
and users would contemplate whether or not to get a second line, and if doing
so was worth the cost.
In 1997, the
cable modem was introduced, although the common use of
broadband didn't begin rising until 2001. Having a broadband connection enabled
one to download significantly faster than on dial-up.
As with many new technologies, most consumers were unable to afford the cost
of faster Internet service.
However, high costs weren't a factor for long as by
2004, most average
American households considered home broadband service
to be affordable. Since its inception, broadband has continually strengthened
and available connection speeds continue to rise.
Different criteria for "broad" have been applied in different
contexts and at different times. Its origin is in physics,
acoustics and
radio systems engineering, where it had been used with a meaning similar to
wideband. However,
the term became popularized through the 1990s as a vague marketing term for
Internet
access.
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