The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has beckoned on local and foreign telecommunications investors to avail themselves of the opportunities in the 2.6GHz spectrum licence auction that would take place from May 16, 2015.
Director, Spectrum Administration at NCC, Austine Nwaulune,  said the success of the exercise would help the country achieve the 30 per cent broadband target set in the National Broadband Plan 2013-2018. “The license is not only open to existing operators, people and companies from other part of the world can come and bid as far as they can comply with the rules. As at today, we have not checked if people or companies have applied or not. But we need to get the process moving. Companies that eventually participated and become winners have within one year to roll out services. The IM stated it clearly, ‘Use it or lose it’”, he stressed. On the importance of the 2.6GHz spectrum to Nigeria, Nwaulune disclosed that about 108 networks across the globe have rolled out on the frequency, stressing that countries including Ghana, UK, USA among others currently operate on it, “as such Nigeria cannot afford to be left out.”
 

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