Nature of Business
Fixed services are provided by the Nigeria Telecommunications Ltd (NITEL Plc) on a monopoly basis.
Like other players in the economy, the company has shown poor performance, supplying slightly over 400 000 lines to serve more than 120 million people. Only 30% of the lines are digital. This is grossly inadequate. Government is implementing a policy designed to greatly increase the supply of telecommunications services.
This is to be achieved by the privatisation of Nitel the and licensing of another operator.
OPERATOR STATISTICS (AS OF JUNE 1999)
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| Launch Date | Nitel was formed in 1985 after the merger of Nigerian External Telecommunications Ltd, responsible for external telecommunica tions, common carrier services and the telecommunications arm of the Department of Posts and Telecommunications | |
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| Technology used | Technology is a mixture of analogue and digital technologies as shown below: | |
| Local exchanges – digital 58 and analogue 177 | ||
| Regional exchanges – digital 21 and 24 analogue | ||
| National exchanges – digital 6 International earth stns – digital 3 analogue 1 | ||
| Nitel plans to digitalise all exchanges | ||
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| No of subscribers | 417 682 | |
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| Capacity | 718 460 | |
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| Geographic | The Nitel network covers the whole country with an extensive terrestrial network. | |
| Population | The critical issue is therefore the general expansion of the network – transmission, switching, customer access as well as the international gateways | |
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| Ownership details (with % shareholding) | The government wholly owns Nitel. The government has launched a process to eventually privatise Nitel in 2000 by the sale of 40% equity to a strategic equity investor and at a later date float 20% on the stock exchange |
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| Average waiting period for connection | Due to inadequate infrastructure, no measure would be realistic. The government has an ambitious programme to expand the network to 8 million by 2005 and considerably reduce the waiting time. | |
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| Market Share (Operator’s figure) | Monopoly | |
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| Full Organisation Name | Nigeria Telecommunications Ltd | |
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| Managing Director | Prof Buba G Bajoga | |
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| Telephone | + 234 2 523 4071 | |
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| Fax | + 234 2 523 0091 | |
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| Physical Address | 3/5 Tafawa Balewa Square, PMB 12550 Lagos Nigeria | |
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General Information
Organisation Type: Company
Registered in: Nigeria
Nick name/Abbrev.: Nitel
Business Sector(s):
Computers & Communications
Telecommunications
Related Organisations
has shareholder: Government of Nigeria
has shareholder: Investors International London Limited (51%)
Directors/Managers
Managing Director: Prof B Bajoga
Contact Information
Nigeria Telecommunications Plc
E-mail: Not Known
Office Address:
3-5 Tafewa Balewa Square
Lagos
Nigeria
Postal Address:
P O Box 12550
Lagos
Nigeria