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Nigeria's Broadband Plan: free internet at every NIPOST

A little bit optimistic about this information, it's actually very promising, with the usual Nigerian sluggishness and corruption it will be better to right off this document and go back to normal business, however, there are lots of reasons why one should not.

The Chairman of the Presidential committee on National Broadband Strategy and Roadmap which was inaugurated September 2012 is Dr. Ernest Ndukwe (OFR) and Vice president  Mr. Jim Ovia. Ernest was pivotal in ensuring development and monitoring of Communication giants in Nigeria like (MTN, Glo, Econet and the others) back then, one of th reason GSM came. Also ensuring the then NCC (Nigeria Communication Commission) was one of the most successful ministry. The NCC then chaired open sessions for the public with communication companies.

The comforting part of this story is that, if these men can apply  a similar drive to that of Bringing the GSM to Nigeria to Broadband then YES, they can achieve their plan to the betterment of the discussed nation.
Easily readable version of the plan. VeryPromising!!!
Hints:
There are plans now to free up the occupied 700Mhz Spectrum for deployment of LTE (4G) as the committee identified that 3G and 4G(LTE) will be the best way to facilitate a rapid encroachment of Broadband. "LTE is today the technology of choice for 4G services.Government will conduct spectrum licensing rounds for LTE by 2014/2015 in the 2.5GHz/ 2.6GHz bands (generally considered to cover the frequency range between 2500-2690 MHz). The 2.5/2.6 GHz bands offer abundant FDD spectrum suitable for building LTE networks." Presently Only a few cities such as Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt currently have any appreciable fibre infrastructure coverage that could be classified standard.
Some approaches will include:
FTTH: Fibre to the Home
FTTB: Fibre to the Base
FTTx: Fibre to the x (where x is defined as where ever may be in need of fibre connection)
LTE or 4G
3G
Sattelite



By 2015 according to the plan, will have all NIPOST branches host Public access points, meaning that you could use internet for free whenever you are in a NIPOST office





What do you think about this prospect?
With corruption, will this be feasible?
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