CWC Summit to explore opportunities in Nigeria’s telecom sector

An elite group of senior government officials, leading operators and industry experts will be joining Nigeria’s Communications Minister Chief Cornelius Adebayo, to highlight the implications and future of Nigeria’s booming telecom market at the CWC’s Fourth International Nigerian
Telecommunications Summit slated to hold in September, this year, in Abuja.

With over 10 million mobile subscribers, Nigeria is the fourth largest cellular telecommunications market in Africa and has one of the brightest spots for mobile value added services. The CWC’s telecom summit is expected to create an interactive window for the international and local
business communities as well as policy makers to explore ways of tapping into these immense opportunities.

Following three years in London, the CWC conference has ‘come home’ to Abuja this year at the request of Chief Adebayo. This highly prestigious and timely event will encapsulate how to sustain growth in Nigeria’s telecommunications sector.

Topics to be discussed include; government and corporate strategies for sector development and capacity building, the move from market liberalisation to competition management, challenges and opportunities of rural expansion, seamless integration of technologies, customer focus: enhancing quality of service and meeting the needs of corporate users, and indigenous participation and the wider impact of telecommunications growth

Sponsors to date include MTN, M-Tel, Vee Networks Limited and Ericsson. They have pledged their support to the programme and CEO MTN, Sifiso Dabengwa, CEO, Nitel, A.J Mashi, CEO, M-Tel, Edwin Moore Momife and Chief
Regulatory Officer, Vee Networks Limited J. P Snijders will be among those presenting their views of the market and strategies for sustainable growth at the event to run from 19-20 September 2005.

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