The difficulty in laying fibre cable across many communities in Nigeria, which is not being allowed in several communities without extortions and ‘settlements’ has been identified as the bane of broadband penetration in Nigeria. This is even as various communities of entitled people demand gratifications before they can allow operators to install telecom towers in their localities. Citing an example, the Chairman/Managing Director of RS Engineering Global Ltd., Engr. Spencer Itive said, “In a certain community, before we could deploy, we had to meet their demand of settling them with 200 litres of diesel”. Also speaking in the same vein, … Continue reading REVEALED: Why More Nigerians Are Still On 2G Networks, Not 5G