The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has made a case for the need to review some of the Nigerian telecom laws while stressing the telecommunication sector is a fast evolving sector with great potentials to enhance human existence.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports NCC’s Director of Legal and Regulatory Services, Ms. Yetunde Akinloye, made the case during a presentation on the Nigerian Communications Act 2003 at a with judges on telecoms legal issues at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos.
The NCC’s Director of Legal and Regulatory Services also spoke on some of the challenges facing the telecom industry.
She listed some of the challenges to include multiple regulations, call masking and multiple taxation, which she said hinder the deployment of telecoms infrastructure thereby delaying expansion of services to places where they are needed.
She also noted that these challenges also negatively impact inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country’s telecoms sector.
TNG reports the judges workshop is an annual week-long event organized by the NCC in conjunction with the National Judicial Institute (NJI).
The idea is to sensitize Nigerian judges on emergent technologies such as use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and SIM Masking/ Refiling in order to brainstorm the legal frameworks surrounding these services.
Clement Omeiza Baiye, Board Commissioner represented Chairman of the Board of NCC, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye and delivered the welcome address on his behalf.
In his welcome address, Senator Durojaiye thanked the judges for making the time to attend the workshop to facilitate themselves with current trends, accomplishment and challenges within the telecoms sector.
He noted that Telecommunications has contributed about N15 trillion to the Nigerian economy since the liberalisation of digital mobile communications nearly 17 years ago.
The NCC’s Executive Commissioner, Stakeholder Management, Mr. Sunday Dare, who represented the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, spoke on the importance of the Nigerian Judicial sector to familiarise themselves with the implementation of Artificial Intelligence, a disruptive innovation that is being adopted by the Judicial sectors in developed countries.
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