Quality of service, fair competition, digital economy top NCC’s new Strategic Vision Plan

Improved quality of service (QoS) for enhanced consumer quality of experience (QoE); promotion of fair competition, inclusive growth, increased investment and innovative services; as well as provisioning of infrastructure for a digital economy for national development top the list of a five-point focus of the new Strategic Vision Plan (SVP) 2021-2025. 

The new SVP was launched in Abuja this week by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, to begin a fresh journey for the telecom regulator at bolstering growth in nearly twenty years of overseeing liberalized telecoms sector.

“The Commission is standing on the threshold of history, as Nigeria marks 20 years of a liberalized telecommunications industry,” said Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, at the event that also included the launch of NCC Podcast and the book: ‘Compendium of EVC’s Speeches.’

In all, the  new SVP 2021-2025, which replaces the one of 2015  to 2020, has five items namely:

1. Organizational Renewal for Operational Efficiency and Regulatory Excellence;
2. Facilitating the Provision of Infrastructure for a Digital Economy which fosters National Development;
3. Promoting Fair Competition, Inclusive Growth, Increased investment and Innovative Services;
4. Improve Quality of Service (QoS) for Enhanced Consumer Quality of Experience (QoE); and
5. Facilitating Strategic Collaboration and Partnership.

“We will continue to do our best in the discharge of the Commission’s mandate, especially in facilitating broadband deployment which is central to diversifying the Nigerian economy and for national development in line with the National Digital Economy agenda,” said Danbatta at the event.

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According to him the new podcast of the commission will further help in dissemination information about the NCC’s activities to stakeholders. His words: “It is our belief that the NCC Podcast will complement our existing online media platforms in supporting the array of our communications activities and collaborations by offering additional innovative ways and tools to engage with our stakeholders.”