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Karl Toriola: Connecting Nigerians One City at a Time

Karl Toriola: Connecting Nigerians One City at a Time
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Connecting Nigerians in Underserved Communites

Chiamaka Ozulumba reports on how MTN’s Rural Connectivity programme is connecting 20 million Nigerians in underserved communities A report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an affiliate of the United Nations, concerned with the functioning of global telecommunications, revealed that only 51 per cent of the world’s population was online as of 2019. The organisation had freshly launched its facts and figures report titled Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures 2020 report, where it estimated that only 51 per cent of the population were online as of 2019. This suggests that in a population of over 7 billion people, about 3.7 billion were without connectivity to the Internet.

Nigeria: MTN Begins Rural Telephony Connectivity in 3,000 Locations

Nigeria: MTN Begins Rural Telephony Connectivity in 3,000 Locations
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Daily Trust - MTN to provide 20m solar power

“Going forward, MTN plans to install more than 1,000 new sites each year in the next few years to cover all the identified locations’’, MTN said. To achieve this goal, Daily Trust reports, MTN has been working with technology partners like Huawei and others. Together, they are deploying infrastructure that will accelerate connectivity and aid the consistent rollout of low-cost connectivity solutions in these areas that have non-existent or limited network coverage and broadband services. Speaking on this initiative, Chief Operating Officer, MTN Nigeria, Mazen Mroue, said: “Our core belief is that everyone deserves the benefits of a modern, connected life. It is driven by an understanding of the potential impact of connectivity on the socioeconomic outcomes of individuals, communities, and the country as a whole. This belief drives our rural expansion goals and fuels our commitment to continue pushing until everyone is connected.”

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