The Nigerian Telecommunications Commission on Thursday said Nigeria rated 11th in terms of Internet penetration and seventh in terms of mobile phone usage worldwide.
The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof Umar Danbatta said at the opening ceremony of the two-day Emerging Technology Forum for the Telecommunications Industry in Abuja.
The EVC who spoke through the head, Spectrum Database Management, NCC, Abraham Oshadami, stated that the worldwide data gathered by the NRI team demonstrated that digital transformation was a global need in order to optimise the social and economic effects of the digital era.
He added that the NIR examined the performance of 131 economies across four categories: technology (infrastructure), governance, people, and effect.
He said, “Nigeria is a telecommunications powerhouse, accounting for 82 per cent of the continent’s telecom subscribers and 29 per cent of the continent’s internet…
