Multiple RoW charges threaten FG fibre optic project – Stakeholders

The success of Nigeria’s ambitious 90,000-kilometer fibre project would depend on the state government’s willingness to take ownership and abandon the practice of treating the right of way as a source of internal revenue generation. 

This was the position of telecom industry stakeholders at the sixth edition of the Policy Implementation Assisted Forum in Lagos recently. 

Last month, the Federal Government approved a special-purpose vehicle to support the delivery of the fibre optic cable and began talks with the World Bank.

The project seeks to increase Nigeria’s fibre optic cable capacity from 35,000 km to 125,000 km, making it Africa’s third-longest terrestrial fibre optic backbone behind South Africa and Egypt.

By Justice Okamgba.
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