Prof. Umar Dambatta, the Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has tasked state governments to invest in the implementation of broadband policy of the Federal Government.
Dambatta made the call on Thursday in Kano, at a one-day stakeholders broadband engagement forum.
He said that state governments had a vital role to play in ensuring the successful implementation of the broadband implementation efforts of the Federal Government.
“With successful accomplishment of the broadband policy, there will be improvement in terms of infrastructure, economic and social status of states,” he said.
Dambatta said that the commission had already approved seven licenses to broadband operators across the six geo-political zones of the country including Lagos.
Explaining the broadband framework, Dambatta said it was a plan by the Federal Government to put together and define how broadband would attain 30 per cent penetration in the country.
According to him, the commission sets up a broadband monitoring committee to sensitise critical stakeholders on the framework.
NCC broadband forum was to sensitise all stakeholders of its implementation and framework.
