Minister Gives Reason For Drop Calls, Poor Network

Minister Gives Reason For Drop Calls, Poor Network

The Minister of Communications, Innovations, and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, attributed the issues of dropped calls and inadequate telecommunication networks in the country to vandalism.

During his appearance on Tuesday’s episode of Channels Television’s “Politics Today” program, Tijani revealed his efforts towards classifying telecoms infrastructure as critical national assets to curb vandalism.

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Additionally, the minister emphasized the necessity of a $2 billion investment to lay fiber optic cables across Nigeria, aiming to enhance the optimal performance of the telecommunication network.

He said, “There are times that you experience bad connection that it is simply that an infrastructure has been destroyed somewhere.

“So, one of the memos I have been working on as a minister is actually to declare telecommunication infrastructure as critical national infrastructure because there are times people go vandalise a base station, steal some of the things there, go resell.

“Every time that is done, it gets in the way of quality of connections that people get. There are times people dig the ground and they end up breaking fibre optics cables – those fibre optics cables also contribute to the quality of services that you and me get.”

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