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The Federal Government has said that it is optimistic that all Nigerians
will be online by 2018 when the government’s Broadband plan is completed.
The Vice President Namadi Sambo made this known at the gathering of experts and
government officials from Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisations (CTO) in Abuja for a three day discussion on innovation
through Broadband and noted that 250 million additional people came online in
2012 because mobile broadband is now affordable to more in developing
countries.
Sambo who was represented by the
Minister of Communication
Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, said the government is presently working
with the private sector to get Nigeria covered with broadband and assured that
government will not relent in seeing the number of internet users increasing.
However, the ITU report annual measuring the
Information Society 2013 said mobile broadband over smartphones and tablets has
become the fastest growing segment of the global ICT market while there is buoyant
global demand for information and communication technology (ICT) products and
services, steadily declining prices for both cellular and broadband services,
and unprecedented growth in 3G uptake.
"By end 2013 there will be 6.8
billion total mobile-cellular subscriptions - almost as many as there are
people on the planet. An estimated 2.7 billion people will also be connected to
the Internet - though speeds and prices vary widely, both across and within
regions.
"Mobile broadband connections over
3G and 3G+ networks are growing at an average annual rate of 40 per cent,
equating to 2.1 billion mobile-broadband subscriptions and a global penetration
rate of almost 30 per cent. Almost 50 per cent of all people worldwide are now
covered by a 3G network," the report said.
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