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www.researchandmarkets.com - Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/research/14b0dc/nigeria_key_stat) has announced the addition of the "Nigeria - Key Statistics Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews" report to their offering.
Nigeria is one of the biggest and fastest growing telecom markets in Africa, attracting huge amounts of foreign investment, and is yet standing at relatively low
levels of market penetration. Far reaching liberalisation has led to hundreds of companies providing virtually all kinds of telecom and value-added services in an independently regulated market. The mobile sector, which has seen triple digit growth rates five years in a row since competition was introduced, has been joined by a number of additional players under a new unified licensing regime which is expected to also boost the country's underdeveloped Internet and broadband sector. A fifth GSM operator was licensed in 2007 and 3G mobile services launched in early 2008. Nitel, the recently privatised but still ailing incumbent telco, is looking for an additional strategic investor and new business models to turn the company around. -0- Key Topics Covered: 1. Synopsis 2. Key statistics 3. Telecommunications market 3.1 Overview of Nigeria's telecom market 3.1.1 Telecom investments 4. Regulatory environment 4.1 Nigerian Communications Commission Decree (NCCD) 1992 4.2 National Telecommunications Policy (NTP) 1999, 2000 4.3 Nigerian Communications Act 2003 4.4 West African common regulatory framework 2005 4.5 Class Licence policy extension 2007 5. Regulatory authority 5.1 Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) 5.1.1 NCC Challenges and Direction 5.2 No regulation on state level 6. Key regulatory issues 6.1 Interconnect 6.2 Infrastructure sharing 6.3 Poor quality of service 6.4 Spectrum auctions 6.4.1 3G mobile spectrum 6.5 National Information Technology Development (NITD) Fund 6.6 National emergency numbers 7. Telecom sector liberalisation 7.1 Globacom's SNO licence 7.2 Fixed Wireless Access licences 7.3 International gateway licences 7.4 New unified licensing regime 2006 8. Privatisation of Nitel 8.1 Nitel's IPO 9. Related reports
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