Abstract
Nokia, a leading equipment vendor, named Nigeria as a "priority country" in March 2014, when it announced it was expanding its presence with the opening of a new office in the country's largest city Lagos, and an overhaul of its existing office in capital city Abuja. [1]. Nigeria, therefore, present a huge market potential in the telecoms world. However, this potential has not been fully tapped as broadband penetration is abysmally low. Also, next generation technology is needed to drive the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities and various smart innovations technology can avail. [2]. This research looked at how these problems could be tackled through the deployment of 4G LTE. It was found that for the 4G LTE network to be successfully deployed across the whole of Nigeria, certain factors had to be addressed. Some of these factors include, spectrum challenge, challenges in the implementation of hard handover, inability to acquire 4G LTE enabled devices due to low-income base of users, inadequate number of base stations and problem integrating 4G equipment with existing legacy networks.
Highlights
Nigerian is currently making efforts to increase its broadband penetration from its current level of 8% to 30% by 2018
The situation is further compounded by the fact that 90% of telecom services in Nigeria are deployed through wireless means since there is near total absence of an active fixed telephone infrastructure [3]
Broadband is to the 21st century information age what electricity was to the industrial age. It has significant transformative effect on how people live and work [4]. Another area of concern is that the small population of subscribers of 8% that currently have access to broadband cellular services in Nigeria, are currently experiencing poor services and the situation could worsen due to increasing number of mobile users and limited spectrum
Summary
Nigerian is currently making efforts to increase its broadband penetration from its current level of 8% to 30% by 2018. It has significant transformative effect on how people live and work [4] Another area of concern is that the small population of subscribers of 8% that currently have access to broadband cellular services in Nigeria, are currently experiencing poor services and the situation could worsen due to increasing number of mobile users and limited spectrum. Nigeria currently has four (4) active mobile network operators (MTOs) with national coverage namely; Airtel, Globacom, MTN and 9Mobile.
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