Nigeria is ranked seventh in the world for mobile phone usage and eleventh for internet reach, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Umar Danbatta disclosed this in Abuja at the “Emerging Technology Forum” for stakeholders in the telecommunications industry last Thursday.
Nigeria accounts for 82% of all telecom customers and 29% of all internet usage in Africa.
This has prompted NCC to call for more investments and collaboration to enable Nigeria harness the potential of emerging technologies.
Nigerians are copiously using the phone technology amid high costs of data and economic hardships occasioned by fuel subsidy removal and new exchange rate policy.
It would be recalled that the number of approved phones in Nigeria by the NCC had risen to 2,155 as of July, last month