Telecommunication Technology: Issues and Trends In West Africa

Let me take a critical look at the market trends with a view of looking into the future going forward. The Nigerian Telecoms market has performed excellently well since the introduction of mobile telephony into the space especial the GSM operators. From a Paltry 400,000 installed capacity in 1997 to a whooping 85M lines today, the market has done well beyond expectation. What were the major drivers of the Market? 1 Available total hungry Market of over 100M subscribers yearning for Telco services which were unavailable 2 Government liberalization of the space 3 A transparent frequency licensing regime by NCC 4 A growing young and vibrant population, highly literate and highly mobile 5 A reasonable economic leverage within the population, that enabled them afford the services 6 Vibrant operators , offering mouth watering incentives in the form of mobile lottery in most instances What are the inhibiting factors to Growth and affordability? 1 Lack of basic Infrastructure

Hello again, Just had some reflective moments on issues concerning us. The Problems we face in Nigeria were man made and will be solved by man. We have become too religious to the detriment of our responsibilities and assignment. God gave us sound mind and strength and He expects us to use them. We must learn to distinguish between what is our assignment and what is God’s responsibilities as we cannot send God on an assignment. God will not do our assignments for us, just as no genuine father will do his child’s assignment and send him to pass it to his teacher . If we don’t do our assignment and just pray, we will fail. And I think that is just what we have been doing at the national level. The significant problems we face today in our country, cannot be solved at the same frame of mind where we were when we created them. We must shift our reference frame, our lenses with which we view the world around us. What on earth are we still doing with “state of origin” in our status books?, a