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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)’s special session at the ongoing Social Media Week Lagos (SMWL) 2020, shall focus on how the Fifth Generation (5G) networks will impact Nigeria’s socio-economic landscape and the inherent challenges to the deployment.
According to statement by NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Henry Nkemadu, the Special Session will hold at 1:00 p.m. in the Main Stage on Day 4 – Thursday, 27 – of the 5-Day event taking place from 24-28 February, 2020 at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
He stated that the Executive Vice Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, was expected to lead the discussion focused on “Fifth Generation (5G) Networks Deployment: Socio-economic Benefits and Challenges,” which will examine networks from different perspectives.
“As the Commission prepares the ground for 5G networks launch, it continues to take several steps aimed at continuously improving quality of service (QoS) both for voice and data services.
Some of the steps include monthly engagement sessions with operators on QoS, quarterly QoS Industry working group meeting, engagement with the Nigerian Governors Forum to align right of way charges with that agreed courtesy the National Economic Council resolution; and engagement with individual governors to reduce and eliminate the incidences of site shutdown by state government agencies,” Nkemadu said.
He further added that “the steps also include instituting benchmarking drive test across the country to measure performance of each operator in a given area and identify coverage gaps with a view to bridging them; instituting new QoS measurement mechanisms for assessing the QoS performance of operators to ensure measured performance more closely aligns with subscriber experiences across all states of the federation; deployment of QoS measurement systems at the Commission to enable near real-time assessment of QoS across the country from the Commissions office, among others”
The panel session at Social Media Week, Lagos (SMWLagos), he noted, was sponsored by NCC to provide more information, education and knowledge required by telecom stakeholders and citizens, and to enable participants to raise critical questions that may be agitating their minds.
