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Zinox, Brinks get NCC Infraco Licences for South East, North East
The Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved two additional Infrastructure Company (Infraco) Licences.
The two new Infraco licencees are Zinox Technology Limited for South East and Brinks Integrated Solutions Limited for North East.
With this approval, the number of Infracos licenced so far is now four.
About a year ago, MainOne Cable Company Limited, was licenced to provide services in Lagos, while IHS got its licence to cover the North Central geopolitical zone including Abuja.
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According to Tony Ojobo, NCC Director, Public Affairs, who made this known in a release on Thursday, the Infraco licences are based on the the commission’s Open Access Model (OAM) in line with the National Broadband Plan (NBP) of (2013 – 2018).
By provisions of the NBP, Nigeria is expected to attain 30 percent broadband penetration by 2018.
As at December, 2017, Nigeria had attained 22% broadband penetration.
As part of the initiative to achieve this, NCC, has so far licenced a number of companies to stimulate broadband penetration.
These include Bitflux Communications Limited (Bitflux) for 2.3 Ghz and MTN Nigeria for the 2.6 Ghz licences.
With the licensing of four Infracos: MainOne Cable, IHS, Zinox Technology and Brinks Solutions, there are three more licencees waiting for approval to bring total number to seven.
These are for South South, North West and South West.
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