The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta has assured Nigerians that the Commission will continue to work towards the reduction in cost of data. He also pledged to achieve the target of N390/Gigabyte cost of data by the year 2025, as enshrined in the National Broadband Plan (2020-205).
Danbatta who gave the assurance during an interview in Lagos, said the expectations of telecoms subscribers were high and that they wanted NCC to do more in the area of fast data depletion. According to Danbatta,
“NCC is already working hard to address their concerns. We did our benchmarking recently and we discovered that the cost of 1 Gigabyte of data has come down below N500, which represents 50 per cent reduction from what it used to be. “There is however a target to reduce data cost to N390/Gigabyte by the year 2025 and we are almost there.
The target, as enshrined in the National Broadband Plan (2020-2025) is to achieve N390/Gigabyte in the cost of data by the end of 2025, but the recent benchmarking that the NCC did, showed that the cost of data has reduced to more than 50 per cent from what it used to be at the beginning of 2020.
