Improving Information And Communications Technology In Nigeria.

At the debut of GSM in Nigeria in 2001, Nigeria had 116 BTS (Base Transceiver Stations) and in 2002 it increase to 879 and in the subsequent years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 the number rose to 1,837; 2,802; 3,673; 7,268 respectively. At 2011 Nigeria had 25, 374 BTS which slightly increased to 26,500 in 2012. The Nigerian Communications Commission NCC, on Wednesday December 17, 2014 said that the telecoms industry in the country needed about 80,000 Base Transceiver Station BTS to provide better services to customer.With about 29,000 BTS which is the total as at December 2013 in a country where there are about 134 million connected users there is a need to increase to the BTS. The minister of communication Mrs Johnson had some time said that the increase in BTS across the country will boost service quality, the minister encouraged telecom operating companies to increase BTS deployment to reach 60, 000 by 2018.In the quest to bridge the Information and Communication Technology gap between the viable and non-viable areas in Nigeria. the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) on saturday deployed 79  Base Transceiver Stations(BTS) in the unserved and underserved communities across Nigeria.

USTF was established by the government to  facilitate the achievement of National policy goals for universal access and universal service to information and communication technologies in rural, unserved and underserved areas in Nigeria. The fund is managed to facilitate the provision of affordable telecommunication service for the people.

The main aim of this project is to ensure end users has internet access internet access at broadband speed the project will also provide an efficient bandwidth distribution network that will serve as a platform for extension and distribution of broadband internet access in rural areas.
The outcome of the project is the wide spread availability of broadband internet services such as internet browsing, email, VoIP and electronic testing services Abdullahi Maikano, secretary of USPF said.