Telcos to Commit $76bn in Five-Year CapEx

Fibre Deficit Exposes Nigeria’s Fragile Broadband Boom

Nigeria’s impressive mobile internet expansion is masking a severe deficit in fixed, high-capacity home connectivity. Fresh data reveals that only 265,000 households across the country possess active Fibre-to-the-Home subscriptions. This microscopic figure stands in stark contrast to the nation’s sprawling 154.72 million active mobile internet subscriptions. Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Aminu…

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Aliyu Aboki, executive secretary of the West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly

West Africa’s $150bn Digital Economy Faces Connectivity Crisis

West Africa’s $150 billion digital economy rests upon a dangerously brittle foundation. Aliyu Aboki, executive secretary of the West African Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA), warns that inadequate submarine cable resilience now threatens the region’s primary growth engine. The 2024 mass cable failure, which slashed bandwidth across the region, proved that sheer capacity means little without…

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