Nigeria: Etisalat Identifies Hurdles to Rural Voice Telephony

6 December 2012

Telecoms operator, Etisalat, has highlighted the actual reasons for the slow adoption of rural telephone penetration by telecoms operating companies, despite frantic efforts made by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), to reverse the trend.

NCC had through its Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), provided incentives to telecoms operating companies, to enable them rollout telecoms services in rural communities, but it appears such incentives are not motivational enough, as rural voice telephony penetration still remained low, in spite of the over 107 million telecoms subscribers recorded across existing networks.

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