The National Executive Council of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, has promised to work with the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to achieve the objectives of the Strategic Management Plan (SMP) 2020-2024.
c disclosed this in a Goodwill Message at the Virtual launch of 2020-2024 Strategic Plan which took place on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.
He noted that, “ATCON will collaborate with the Minster of Communications and Digital Economy, NCC, NITDA, NigCoMSAT, Galaxy Backbone, USPF, and DBI to work the plan out with all other stakeholders especially our members through initiation of programmes in order to realize it set goals for the industry”.
He said the planning is expected to take its root from the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) and the new National Broadband Plan 2020 – 2025 (NBP).
Teniola stressed that the plan takes into consideration the post COVID-19 pandemic in relation to regulation of the Nigerian telecom sector viz-a-viz the expectations of players in the industry.
Teniola therefore thanked NCC and its supervising Ministry, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, saying “I am particularly happy that the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) under its supervising Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy which is ably headed by Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has called the entire important stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT and telecoms sector to unveil a plan that would last between 2020 – 2024.”
L-R: Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, NCC, Senator Obinna Ogba, member, Senate Committee on Communications, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Hon. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Adeolu Akande, Chairman, Board of Commissioners, NCC, and Ms Helen Obi, Deputy Director, Corporate Planning, Strategy and Risk Management (CPSRM), NCC, during the virtual launch of the NCC’s five-year strategy plan in Abuja on Tuesday
He also congratulated Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman/CEO of NCC and the management of NCC.
He pledged ATCON’s commitment to work with NCC in order to realize the listed deliverables of the plan for Nigeria and the generality of the people of our great country.
