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Access Gap Studies
Bidders Meeting
Abdullahi Maikano
Secretary
Universal Service Provision Fund
October 2012
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Presentation Outline
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Key Objectives of Meeting
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Introduction
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Background to the Access Gap Study
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Key Objectives of the Access Gap Study
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Key Objectives of the Meeting
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To provide a background to the Project.
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Give further clarifications where necessary
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Brainstorm and exchange ideas on the Project
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Introduction
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The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) was established
by the Nigerian Communications Act No. 19 of 2003:
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To facilitate the extension of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) and Network Services to the rural, un-served and
underserved areas of the country
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The USPF commenced operations in 2006.
One of USPF’s major programmes is to accelerate mobile
expansion to cover all the nooks and cranny of the country
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To replicate the telecoms explosion witnessed in the urban areas
(towns/cities) to the rural areas
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To leapfrog the unserved and underserved communities to the digital
experience.
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Introduction
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Under the Accelerated Mobile Phone Expansion Programme
(AMPEP), two projects were implemented:
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BTS – Licensed mobile operators are provided subsidies to build BTS in
selected underserved and unserved communities
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CIP – Infrastructure providers are awarded subsidies to build BTS for
collocation i.e provide shareable (passive) infrastructure for operators
Locations were selected by implementers for approval of the USPF
AMPE - BTS
A total of 62 completed and in operation
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AMPE - CIP
A total of 3 completed and 101 in progress
Key challenges faced in the implementation of these projects
include the following:
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Non-completion of most projects
“Cherry-picking” of sites, therefore implementation
uncoordinated resulting in suboptimal performance
Request for location changes
became
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Background to the Access Gap Study
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Subscriber Statistics - 2000 – 2012
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Nigeria is the fastest growing telecommunications market in Africa i.e. in
terms of number of subscribers
The graph overleaf shows the trend from 2000 to August 2012
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Annual Subscriber Data in Nigeria
160000000
141,297,289
140000000
124,801,018
111,517,229
No. of Subscriber lines
120000000
100000000
74,518,264
80000000
64,296,117
60000000
41,975,275
33,858,022
40000000
19,519,154
20000000
0
10,201,728
400,000
866,782
2000
2001
2,271,050
2002
4,021,945
2003
2004
2005
2006
Years
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
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Background to the Access Gap Study
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Subscriber Statistics – Comparative Analysis
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Nigeria is number 1 among selected African in terms of number of
subscribers
Telecoms Subscriber base of selected African countries (August 2012)
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Background to the Access Gap Study
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Statistics - coverage Africa
However, in terms of coverage
(penetration), Nigeria is far
behind.
From being No 1 to No. 8, in
selected African countries
Therefore, a new strategy must
be adopted to ensure 100%
coverage of Nigeria within the
next 5 years.
Mobile Phone Coverage in
selected African Countries
South Africa
Countries
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127%
Algeria
99%
Egypt
91.30%
Gambia
89%
Ghana
85%
Benin
85%
Kenya
65%
Nigeria
59%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100% 120% 140%
Percentage Coverage
Source: World Bank
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Background to the Access Gap Study
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To address this, the USPF has to change its strategy.
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Hence, the need to cluster unserved areas into blocks and
thereafter request bids from Operators.
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The coverage map for consolidated BTS sites and fibre routes are
presented overleaf:
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Consolidated BTS Coverage of Nigeria
Consolidated BTS Coverage of Nigeria
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Consolidated Fibre Coverage of Nigeria
Consolidated Fibre Coverage of Nigeria
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Key Objectives of the Project
The key objectives of the Access Gap Study are to:
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Create Clusters of areas not covered by telecommunications
services in Nigeria with the view of inviting bids for each cluster as
a bundle/block – this is similar to the Model adopted by the USP
Fund, Malaysia
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Each Cluster will come with the necessary attributes that would be
the selling points.
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The attributes include – Population; Land Area; Key Public/Private
Institutions; Principal Economic Activity; Major Road network;
Existence of other USPF assisted projects etc.
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This strategy would reduce cherry picking by prospective implementers
and ensure the 40% , not served would be served.
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Key Objectives of the Access Gap Study
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The Request for Proposal (RFP) provides a high level scope of work
for the Project.
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Details were not provided considering that there could be several means of
achieving the objective of the Project
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The USPF did not want to prescribe any particular means but hopes that
bidders will come up with innovate solutions for analysing and identifying
clusters.
The expectation is that bids will provide the detailed strategy and
methodology for achieving the Project objectives.
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