Rural telephony project to take off soon – Minister

Minister of telecommunications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, has said that the first phase of the National Rural Telephony Project (NRTP), would take off in the country “any moment from now just as he said his ministry had started negotiating on the second phase of the project.Speaking in Lagos recently at a seminar, Chief Adebayo said the construction of exchange buildings and civil work to boost the project had been completed in 73 sites, located in 25 states of the federation. According to Chief Adebayo, installation of switching system and exchanges in 14 locations, spreads within 27 locations have also been completed.He revealed that construction of microwave towers is on at six locations “at the moment,” adding that twelve locations now have Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) and complete aerial networking.His words: “We have continued to make progress in the National Telephony Project (NRTP). The construction of exchange buildings and civil work has been completed in 73 sites, located in 25 states of the federation. Also completed is the installation of switching system and Exchanges in 14 locations, spread within 27 locations, while construction of microwave towers is on at six locations at the moment. Twelve locations now have Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) and complete aerial networking. Any moment from now, we expect the take-off of the first phase of the NRTP, and we have even started negotiating on the second phase of the project. Things like e-commerce, e-agriculture, e-education, e-health will soon be part of our daily life in Nigeria, with the Galaxy Backbone Project, and the National Rural Telephony Project.”The minister, who was represented at the occasion by his special assistant, Akinloye Oyebanji, told participants that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is now supervising the setting up of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Nigeria, “following a directive from President Olusegun Obasanjo, on the need for Nigeria to have an IXPI internet gateway.”“Some Nigerian towns have been selected to be hosts to key branches of the IXPI. In the country, service providers will continue to send all outbound traffic through other International links, mostly through satellite. As soon as they become operational, there will be sharp reduction in the cost of internet bandwidth supplied to the Nigerian locality”, he said.

Extracted from Dailytrust

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