Industry stakeholders in the
nation’s telecommunications sector have pushed for efficiently managed infrastructure
sharing in Nigeria.
A round-up of a two-day
stakeholders meeting hosted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in
Lagos, DigitalSENSE Business News reports, saw every stakeholder who
contributed at the event pointing at how to make the infrastructure sharing a
successful model, especially drawn from other parts of the world to boost
broadband deployment.
The event which was the second
annual consultative forum on engineering and emerging technologies organized by
the NCC, held with the theme “Spectrum Dependent Infrastructure Sharing in
Nigeria: Trends, Issues and Impact,” the participants stressed the need for
adequate infrastructure sharing model among players in the industry.
The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah represented by the
Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Engagement at NCC, Mr. Okechukwu Itanyi,
confirmed that part of the regulatory issues that needed to be addressed in
order to control the potential of the Nigerian nascent broadband industry was
access to infrastructure by the existing and new players.
NCC also advised already licensed
operators to make effective use of their licenses, especially in the face of
scarce spectrum resources, so as to achieve good projections of the national
broadband policy.
Maintaining that active
infrastructure sharing was part of the advantages being leveraged in the
advanced telecoms markets.
The EVC noted that access to and
availability of spectrum resources was a prerequisite to achieving broadband
provision.
"Current development in the
Nigerian telecommunications industry has created a few vertically integrated
players that have built infrastructures that are being leveraged on to compete
in the provision of broadband services. These infrastructures and resources are
usually only available to new players at a premium as their replication and
acquisition of the required resources are both capital intensive and have long
lead times for delivery,” Juwah said.
The trend, he said, had resulted
in unfavourable pricing of services such as widespread broadband access.
Juwah stated that regulatory
intervention in the market was to ensure open and non-discriminatory access by
all players to reduce barriers and other challenges.
Juwah said addressing the main
barriers of entry in the industry would boost competition, increase innovations
by players and also improve penetration of broadband services.
Director Public Policy, Middle
East and Africa, GSMA, Mr. Peter Lyons, advised the regulator not to apply
force on operators in the implementation of infrastructure sharing.
"The regulator should rather
provide a platform for safer competition among the operators," Lyons said.
Pic: Dr. Juwah of NCC.
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