Nigerian govt targets $1 billion from freed digital dividend spectrum as it inaugurates Digital Switch Over

The Federal Government has announced that Nigeria is projected to make implicit 1 cardinal dollars successful dividends from the liberated integer broadcasting utilizing the 700/800MHz spectrum, arsenic it prepares to initiate its Digital Switch-Over programme connected June 17th of this year.

Furthermore, the authorities emphasized that the Digital Switch-Over programme would unlock 605 cardinal naira successful gross from Nigeria’s advertizing markets, offering contented creators and broadcasters a assortment of income streams from this initiative.

It urged broadcasters, contented creators, and different stakeholders to prehend this accidental to revolutionize the integer broadcasting scenery successful the country.

Mr. Charles Ebuebu, the Director General/CEO of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, on with Mrs. Jane Egerton-Idehen, the Managing Director/CEO of Nigeria Satellite Communications Limited (NigComSat), made these remarks during a property league held astatine NigComSat’s Headquarters successful Abuja.

The 2 CEOs jointly addressed the media and guided journalists done the outer facilities and infrastructures successful mentation for the inauguration of the DSO programme, confirming that each arrangements person been completed for a palmy motorboat of the initiative.

They some highlighted the value of infrastructural sharing platforms for the occurrence of the programme, arsenic NigComSat intends to...