Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Eugene Juwah, admits that the time has come for the government to intervene in broadband deployment in a non-competitive manner in order not to compromise the operators licences.
Meanwhile THE MainOne CEO, Funke Opeke, says while the NCC would be negotiating bail out options, it should also discuss modalities for access and pricing so that the whole thing would come as a full package, to make a meaning.
Juwah insists that the NCC would ensure that smaller companies will remain in business and that every attempt to muscle them out of business will be rejected by his commission.
Juwah notes that the ICT sector is a liberalized one, which makes NCC duty bound by the Telecoms Act to protect all operators in the industry.
For Engr Gbenga Adebayo, Chairman Association of Licensed Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ALTON), the industry gradually precipitating into peril.
“Companies are dying and unable to survive the hard times. The time has come to approach government to do something for the sector,” says Adebayo, Chairman Association of Licensed Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ALTON).
Adebayo is confident that the NCC will provide subsidy for the broadband roll out.
By: Savious Kwinika
