Nigerian ICT companies fail to conquer rural connectivity market
Nigerian companies are still behind when its comes to ICTs for rural connectivity, this is despite the country being the leading market for telecommunications with 55.2 million phone user, according to stastics Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the top 10 winning ICT pilot project was published under the Commonwealth African Rural Connectivity Report Executive Summary, 2008.
The latest report shows how policies, trends and initiatives have either impeded or facilitated the process of improving rural connectivity in the 18 African Commonwealth countries and was based on the significance and relevant progress made in rural connectivity.
The report identified 10 promising ICT pilots already in operation, which the CTO proposed for large-scale adaptation and replication across Commonwealth Africa through Public Private Peoples Partnerships (PPPP).
Pilot projects from companies in Uganda , Ghana, South Africa , Mauritius and Tanzania were rated high in providing affordable telecommunication access to rural dwellers in areas where little or no telecommunications infrastructure existed.
Established in 1901, the CTO seeks to provide to the developing countries, the effective means to help bridge the digital divide in the specific areas of telecommun
