The Problems of Insfrastructure In The Telecoms Industry-Nigeria
Well it is not news again to know that Nigeria is Africa’s largest telecoms market right now, with about 67m subscribers at the close of second quarter of 2009, it has clearly overtaking South Africa. Yet the penetration still hovers around 45%. This is industry is therefore very important not only to the average man on the streets but also for the government in terms of revenue generation and employment creation. What is doubtful however is the percentage of this revenue is generated that stays in the country as well as the percentage and value of jobs created that benefits Nigerians directly. There is an obvious infrastructure decay in the Nigeria Space, whether you are talking about roads, power generation, transportation system and the basic infrastructure upon which the telecoms industry rides on like backbone, towers etc . These things are not just there and it appears there is no clear road map that the government is following to provide them. Today I will like to examine the is...