NCC Reviews Telecom Policy, Seeks Framework for Digital Economy Growth, Stronger Inter-Agency Coordination

NCC reviews telecom policy, seeks framework for digital economy growth, stronger inter-agency coordination

Nigeria’s telecommunications  stakeholders, regulators, and policymakers have called for a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s telecommunications policy framework to align it with emerging technologies, digital economy ambitions and broader national development objectives. This call came on Tuesday at the National Telecommunications Policy Review Workshop organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in Lagos to review the implem…

NCC reviews telecom policy as Maida seeks stronger digital framework

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has commenced a two-day Stakeholders’ Policy Review Workshop in Lagos to review the National Telecommunications Policy (NTP) 2000 in line with emerging realities in the digital space.Stakeholders at the workshop are expected to assess milestones recorded in the telecommunications sector and outline fresh policy directions for Nigeria’s growing digital ecosystem.Speaking at the event, the Executive Vic…

‎Nigerian Communications Commission Moves to Review Telecom 2000 Policy

‎The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has begun a review of the National Telecommunications Policy 2000. The review became necessary seeing that the country’s fast-growing digital economy has outgrown the framework that guided the sector’s liberalisation over two decades ago. ‎Speaking at a policy review workshop in Lagos, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NCC, Aminu Maida, said the exercise was aimed at deve…

Nigeria targets fibre cuts and tariffs in telecom policy overhaul

Nigeria has begun reviewing its 26-year-old telecommunications policy, proposing 15 major changes that could affect everything from mobile tariffs and internet competition to network quality and online safety for millions of subscribers. The review is expected to go live before the end of the year.  At a policy review workshop in Lagos on Wednesday, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said the proposed National Telecommunications Policy…

Stakeholders questions 26 years wait for telecoms policy review

Twenty-six years after the National Telecommunications Policy 2000 came into effect, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is finally reviewing the framework to address changes and current realities. At the NTP 2000 review workshop on Wednesday in Lagos, stakeholders questioned the long delay in reviewing the policy, noting that within 26 years, several technologies and innovations have emerged and become obsolete. While delivering her ke…

‎NCC begins two-day workshop to overhaul 26-year-old telecom policy‎

‎‎By Chioma Obinagwam ‎‎The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Thursday opened a two-day Stakeholders’ Policy Review Workshop at the Marriott Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, focused on overhauling the National Telecommunications Policy (NTP) first enacted in 2000.‎‎Confiance News gathered that the workshop brings together key players in Nigeria’s digital ecosystem to assess the sector’s growth over the […]