Time for Digital Connectivity? By Okoh Aihe

The way forward looks much clearer now. This is no time for semantics and big talks or even prevarications and over-reliance on legacy achievements of an industry that recorded exponential service deployment in over two decades. The time has come for the next level of growth to address the challenges of the industry and meet the ever-mounting service demands by the subscribers. The new field, according to Dr Aminu Maida, EVC of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is digital connectivity, which is what matters to a trader waiting for payment transactions to go through, to the student joining an online class or even the businessman serving customers across the country. They all ne...