NCC to Auction 5G Spectrum in Q4 2021

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will auction the 5G spectrum by the fourth quarter of 2021.

The Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC) of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who disclosed this on Thursday during a conference on “Multidisciplinary engineering and applied sciences” at Nile University, Abuja, said for the process of the allocation, auctioning, assigning and commercialisation of the 5G spectrum to be seamless and successful, government must provide the enabling environment.

Danbatta was represented at the event by the NCC Director of Technical Standard, Bako Wakil.

He said: “The federal government will provide an enabling environment for
5G deployment, but the MNOs (mobile network operators) will determine their own deployment strategies subject to alignment to the approved polices and other regulatory instruments in force.