Nigeria Largest Telecom Market in Africa – ITU

The International Telecommunications Union, yesterday in Abuja, declared Nigeria as the largest telecom market in the continent with over a quarter of all subscriptions in the continent, this according to a report in The Guardian.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan who was represented by the Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, as the Special Guest of Honor at the maiden edition of the Africa Telecoms Development Summit 2009, which began in Abuja yesterday, said government is committed to encouraging investment flow into the sector with the aim of attaining 100% teledensity before the year 2020 in line with Vision 20-2020.
Dr. Hamadoun Toure, Secretary the first African Secretary General of the ITU, who delivered the key note speech at the summit said “what is needed now is a major push forward in broadband access, where Africa still lags behind every other region of the world. By the end of last year there were still only 635,000 fixed broadband subscribers across sub-Saharan Africa – or less than a tenth of the population of Lagos.