Ernest Ndukwe

Ernest Ndukwe OFR (born 2 September 1948) is a Nigerian electrical engineer and former Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. Quotes I think to sustain the growth, we must lay emphasis to a few things and I will start by advocating that we must maintain stability in the policy and regulatory environment Why we moved as fast as we did over this period is as a result of fair amount of regulatory independence that the organization had. Our focus should not only be that money is being made in the industry but that this decision of government has suddenly changed the landscape and provided phones in the hands of most Nigerians, and provided telephone “access” because even if you do not own a phone, you will likely find a place to make calls near your location today” I think also going forward, we must emphasize on growing broadband infrastructure, and not just growing it for the sake of it but catalyzing its adoption and usage, nationwide. even within the African continent, we should encourage building of optic fibre that links the countries of Africa because that will help us do local peering of Internet, keep local networks linked to each other, reduce price of communicating within the countries in Africa and perhaps greatly increase broadband speed. It’s been a big part of my life and I consider myself really opportune to be in this place at this time especially in the past ten years in seeing the telecom industry transform to what it is today. And obviously, in thinking about sustaining the growth also means that it is still work in progress and there is still much to be done despite the achievements we have been made so far External links Category: living people Category:Electrical engineers Category:Engineers from Nigeria Category:Chief executive officers Category:1948 births