Umar Danbatta, the executive vice-chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says Nigeria is rated eleventh in internet penetration and seventh in mobile phone usage globally.
Mr Danbatta disclosed this at the Emerging Technology Forum for the telecommunications industry opening ceremony on Thursday in Abuja.
The theme of the two-day forum is: “Contextualising the Network Readiness Index (NRI) for the Nigerian Telecommunications Industry”.
“Our nation rates eleventh globally in terms of internet penetration and seventh in terms of mobile phone usage,” the NCC boss said.
Mr Danbatta, represented by Abraham Oshadami, head of Spectrum Database Management, NCC, said the global data collected by the NRI team revealed digital transformation was a global imperative to maximise the social and economic effects of the digital era.
He said the NIR explored the performances of 131 economies in four categories: Technology (infrastructure),…
