Collaboration, panacea to successful deployment of 5G in Nigeria – NCC
By Felicia Nwosu
As Nigerians wait in anticipation for the full roll out of the 5G services in August this year, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has submitted that collaboration among stakeholders in the industry is the panacea to successful deployment of the service in Nigeria.
Prof. Danbatta made this submission at the 90th Edition of the Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP), hosted by the Consumer Affairs Bureau of the Commission. He urged key players in the industry to express their unflinching support to the Commission to enable it explore the prospects and potentials of the new technology.
He said the policy framework for the deployment has come into place and will facilitate deployment of services by the recent winners of the 3.5GHz spectrum auction, MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd and MAFAB Communications Ltd.
The NCC boss said the Commission has set out the regulatory instruments needed for fast deployment of the new versatile technology for the benefit of the consumers and the stakeholders.
He, therefore, invited the support of all stakeholders to ensure that 5G technology is deployed in Nigeria in a manner beneficial to all telecom consumers and to support the emergent Digital Economy Policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
“We will continue to collaborate with stakeholders across sectors to ensure faster deployment of 5G services, and accelerate the growth of Nigeria’s broadband infrastructure,” he said.
He identified some challenges in the deployment to include limited frequencies with the required spectral efficiency, skilled professionals with requisite knowledge of the technology, fewer numbers of 5G-enabled devices, and cost of deployment but stated that the industry must work to turn the challenges into opportunities rather than seeing them as obstacles.
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