Ajay Awasthi, New Chief Executive Officer, Spectranet Nigeria, recently paid a courtesy call to Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission.
The new CEO was accompanied to the commission’s head office by Zakir Hussain, General Manager, Network Empowerment at Spectranet.
Awasthi, while making his remarks said that he is succeeding the former CEO of the Company, David Venn and Nigeria being one of the largest markets in telecommunications services in Africa is an important market for them.
He also spoke about expanding and extending their services across Nigeria, about the need for innovative strategies to overcome some of the challenges bedeviling Broadband deployment, speed and pervasiveness to enhance customer experience and meet/exceed customer expectations.
Professor Danbatta, in his remarks referred to the National Broadband Plan and its expectation to provide 30% penetration by 2018, which implies extending Broadband services to about 50 million of the country’s population.
He also spoke about the 8-Point Agenda placing emphasis on an item of the 8-Point Agenda of facilitating Broadband penetration and dwelled on Broadband speed, transmission, users, pricing and mostly user applications as comprising the Broadband Ecosystem while highlighting innovative applications as the main goal of Broadband services.
The EVC welcomed the New CEO, sought good collaboration and wished him a happy and memorable stay in Nigeria.