Seven infrastructure companies (InfraCos) licensed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to deploy metropolitan fibre and associated equipment have yet to operationalise the licences since they were issued.
The NCC had between 2014 and 2018 issued licences to seven companies as part of efforts to scale Nigeria’s telecom infrastructure. The InfraCos were supposed to provide Layer 1 (dark fibre) services on a commercial basis, with a focus on the deployment of metropolitan fibre and transmission services, available at access points – Fibre-to-the-Node or Neighbourhood – to consumers.
