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Nigeria: ICT - Co-Location Infrastructure Project to Gulp N3 Billion
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Leadership (Abuja)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 24 July 2008
Clem Khena-Ogbena
Abuja
The Co-location Infrastructure Project (CIP), for telecommunications and other information and communication technology (ICT) services, proposed by major stakeholders in the nation's telecommunications sector, would gulp a hopping N3 billion.
The secretary, Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), Mr. Funso Fayomi, revealed this, while briefing communications reporters on co-location infrastructure project concept for telecommunications services, yesterday, at the stakeholders consultative forum on co-location infrastructure project for telecommunications and other ICT services, held at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) corporate headquarters, Abuja.
Fayomi who spoke extensively on the concept of the project, explained that the CIP will enable people access telephony much easier, thus accelerating socio-economic development directly by improving productivity, reducing time lost traveling to distant locations, to use phone with improved public access to services, among others.
He added that apart from promoting greater service -based competition and reducing infrastructure duplication as well as improving quality of service (QoS), particularly in areas where there are new sites to host masts, the co-location infrastructure project, will help arrest rural-urban migration and also bridge the digital divide that has currently characterised the nation's ICT and telecommunication industry. The USPF scribe, equally stated that the CIP is capable of helping to leverage private sector investiments in rural areas, to promote universal access, build the non-oil economy, generate jobs in rural areas in the country and thus alleviate poverty and facilitate trade that will lead to improved Grassroot Domestic Product (GDP) of Nigeria.
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"The co-location infrastructure project is an integral part of our Accelerated Mobile Phone Expansion (AMPE) programme contained in USPF's Strategis plan,"the CIP said.
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