President, NITRA, Mr. Emma Okonji disclosed this Friday to ITRealms, saying that the programme has received sponsorship support from Airtel
Nigeria, and will bring together industry stakeholders to brainstorm on the
theme: “The Impact of Over-Regulation of Telecoms Industry on Service Quality.”
The event, he said, has been scheduled to hold inside Osun
Hall of the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, September 16, 2016
starting by 10 a.m.
Also expected at the seminar, he said, include teams from the
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA) as well as representation from the Association of Telecoms
Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of
Nigeria (ALTON), National Association of Telecoms Subscribers (NATCOMS) and Zinox
Group, to name a few.
Okonji also said, already, most industry stakeholders have
confirmed attendance at the one-day forum to be chaired by the chairman of
ALTON, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo. While the General Manager, Lagos State
Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Authority (LASIMRA), Mr. Babajide
Odekunle would keynote at the event with Airtel Nigeria giving another paper on
the theme.
As said by him, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof.
Umar Danbatta, would give an overall review of the telecoms industry, the value
that the sector has added to the Nigerian economy, as well and the effect of
multiple regulations on service quality.
“The Acting Director-General of NITDA, Dr. Vincent Olatunji;
President of ATCON, Engr. Olusola Teniola and Chairman, Zinox Group, Mr. Leo
Stan Ekeh, among other stakeholders, are expected at the seminar,” he said.
Telecoms subscribers, he noted, are reportedly losing N750
million annually to intermittent poor service quality such as call-drops,
unfair billings, charges on Value Added Service (VAS) not subscribed to, among
others.
“Nigeria telecoms industry has grown significantly in the
past 15 years in such a way that it is now regarded as one of the
fastest-growing in the world. Nigerians telecoms has, indeed, witnessed
exponential growth in the last 13 years moving from active subscriber base of
400,000 with teledensity of 0.004 per cent to active subscriber base of 149.8
million with teledensity of 107.01 per cent, as of June 2016 statistics,” Okonji
said.
He noted that despite the growth, more conducive regulatory
environment needed to be provided for the network so as to be able to deliver
quality service for their growing subscriber base.
“It is our belief that the forum will provide opportunities
for industry stakeholders to dialogue on regulatory challenges facing the
operators and their effects on the service delivery to the subscribers. It will
also help in offering workable solutions for effective industry regulation that
will bring about greater growth of the over $38 billion telecoms industry,” he
said.
2 comments:
This is a good development that will further shape the telecoms industry.
This is a good development that will further shape the telecoms industry.
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