By Seun Adams
The Minsiter of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijanni, has expressed Federal Government’s total commitment and avowed efforts at ramping up various initiatives geard at attainging the targets of fibre deployment it sets for itself.
The attainment he underscored will further boost the seamless transmission of the 5G deployment, adding that the technology has come to say as telcos have given licences to operate.
Speaking on TV programme monitored by EXTRAORDINAIREPEOPLE.COM, in Abuja, the Minister, rationalised: “If you subscribe to 5G for instance and you move into locations where the infrastructure cannot support it, of course, expect that the quality will drop even as we are that 5G technology already exists in the country.”
Tijanni reiterated that federal government is committed to increasing deployment of fiber optics cables and doing every thing possible to increase the kilometre of fibre optics cables across the country.
He stated: “We are about 35,000km to 40,000km now and the goal is to go to 95,000 km.”
Approximately, the cost implication may add up to $1.5 billion to $2 billion to wire the entire the country, he said
Expressing President Tinubu’s commitment with the Renewed Hope (RHA) mantra, he assured industry stakeholders and telecoms subscribers that the Ministry would achieve the aspiration of wiring the country in the first term of this administration.
He said: “The current government wants to connect schools, hospitals, government offices, and other vital places with fibre cables.
“Once we can do this, we start to see changes in the delivery of public services.”
On sustainability of critical telecommunications infrastructure being ravaged by vandals and others, he added that the Ministry is concluding arrangement to make policy declarations on the national infrastructure as critical national assets to prevent further vandalism in the entire ecosystem.