Broadband: Nigeria out for investors at ITU's summit

By Prince Osuagwu

The Nigerian government is stopping at nothing to ensure that massive investment is made in the newly created broadband sector of the economy.

The government is using the economic transformation brought about by the telecom revolution in the country, to benchmark the contributions of broadband investment even as it has been seen as major economic booster of many developed countries of the world.

Armed with those facts, perhaps, the Communications Technology Minister, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has been drafted to lead a high powered delegation of industry players including government officials, policy makers, the regulator and several other stakeholders including telecommunications companies to this year?s International Telecommunications Union, ITU Telecoms World conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirate.

Leveraging on the development, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC,, Dr. Eugene Juwah also addressed a media parley last week, in which he outlined activities and strategies the country has lined up to ensure that every strong ICT investor that attends the Dubai event would at last emerge Nigeria?s broadband sector potential investor.

According to Juwah, main reasons for the country?s focus on broadband development is that no matter the tag that Nigeria was doing well in internet penetration, the high cost of bandwidth due to its unavailability on demand calls for worry.

He said that this poor state of broadband penetration and the attendant high cost of bandwidth have drawn government?s attention and cause it to continue emphasizing investment drive in that direction.

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Juwah said that ?much progress has been made in voice telephony but data aspect of the sector is still poor and far between. Indeed, operators in Nigeria spend an average of between $400m and $500m yearly on bandwidth imported from foreign service providers and this has accumulative negative effect on the end users who have no choice but bear the high cost of this all important tool for fast internet speed and data transmission.

?That is why the Communications Technology Minister will be leading this delegation to correct this imbalance by courting investors to our sector?he added.

Although he admitted that some progress has been made in terms of providing bandwidth locally through Main One Cable Company, Glo 1 and the recently? the re-launched NigComSat-1R satellite, the cost of acquisition is still high.

?We want to tell potential investors that Nigeria remains the preferred investment destination in Africa. We will also explain to the potential investors the areas that still needed their attention since we have made a sizeable progress in voice telephony.

?For instance broadband as a technology is the direction the world is going now. It is about bringing developing countries like Nigeria to the knowledge economy where so much can be done on telemedicine, tele-education, via the internet?.

Juwah added that since missing out on the potentials of broadband development can also cause the country a huge economic developmental loss, it would also be suicidal to leave the campaign and provision in the hands of private investors who are largely profiteers.

The ITU Telecoms world conference in Dubai is taking place from October 14-18 and is expected to enable Nigeria to showcase its investment potentials.

The event brings together industry players, policy makers, regulators, operators, government officials, technology experts and investors.

Through the event, ITU applies technology solution to real world issues using ICT as a catalyst for social, economic and sustainable development.

According to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr Ban Ki Moon, the event has become the global platform for telecommunications regulation and standardization and a meeting point for those who desire the growth of ICTs in their countries. ?It brings together all the major players to ignite change in the way people communicate globally? he added.

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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/08/broadband-nigeria-out-for-investors-at-itus-summit/

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Contracts to buy US homes hits 2-year high in July

(AP) ? Americans signed the most contracts to buy homes in July than at any other point in the last two years, further evidence of a housing recovery.

The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday that its index of sales agreements for previously occupied homes jumped 2.4 percent in July to 101.7. That's higher than June's reading of 99.3. It's also the highest reading since April 2010, the last month that buyers could qualify for a federal home-buying tax credit.

A reading of 100 is considered healthy. The index is 12.4 percent higher than July 2011. It bottomed at 75.88 in June 2010 after the tax credit expired.

Contract signings typically indicate where the housing market is headed. There's generally a one- to two-month lag between a signed contract and a completed deal.

The Realtors' group said contract signings increased in July in all regions of the U.S. except for the West, which it said has a severe shortage of available homes for sale.

The increase is the latest sign that the home sales are finally rebounding five years after the housing bubble burst.

Last week, the National Association of Realtors said completed sales of previously occupied homes jumped 10 percent in July compared with the same month last year. Sales of newly built homes were up 25 percent in that same 12-month period.

Builder confidence rose this month to its highest level in five years. And the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has been below 4 percent all year.

Home prices have also started to rise consistently, which could boost sales further in the months to come. The Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index released Tuesday showed the first year-over-year increase in home prices since September 2010.

Still, the housing market has a long way to go to reach a full recovery. Some economists forecast that sales of previously occupied homes will rise 8 percent this year to about 4.6 million. That's still well below the 5.5 million annual sales pace that is considered healthy.

One trend holding back sales is that inventories of homes are low.

Overall, there were 2.4 million homes for sale in July, down 24 percent in the past year. It would take about 6.4 months to exhaust that supply at the current sales pace. That's just above the six months' inventory that typically exists in a healthy economy.

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Either way, IT delivery has been moving towards multi-tenant, standardized and consumption-based service models. Much like our household utility services are now. Those discussing it are calling it utility computing. New IT outsourcing models are being designed for value creation in service delivery.

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Togo: Women plan sex strike against president

LOME, Togo (AP) ? Women in the civil rights group "Let's Save Togo" said they will have a week long sex strike to demand the resignation of President Faure Gnassingb?.

The plan to withhold sex from their husbands for a week will start Monday, said Isabelle Ameganvi , leader of the group's women's wing.

Ameganvi, a lawyer, told the AP that her group is following the example of Liberia's women who used a sex strike in 2003 to campaign for peace.

The women's protest is part of a campaign by a coalition against Gnassingb?. The opposition group National Alliance for Change held a peaceful demonstration against the president on Saturday. Gnassingb? has been in power since 2005, following the death of his father Gnassingb? Eyadema who ruled the West African country for 38 years.

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