EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC DEREGULATION ON TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR IN NIBERIA

The book emerged as a result of the study which the author was earlIer involved in gathering the historical data.It involved a Ph.D proposal on similar  topic highlighted above.It was chapters 1– 3. The relevance of economic deregulation in any country in the world is not in doubt.This is why , the author found it necessary to publish the findings because both federal and state government as well as students doing research in this area need to know the need for deregulation of critical sectors of economy of any nation. The focus of the earlier study was on deregulation and performance of telecommunication industry in the southwest, Nigeria. The study examined deregulation of telecommunication with regard to its contributions to economic development in Nigeria and southwest in particular in terms of the sector contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Teledencity, employment generation, increase in number of services, attraction of foreign direct investments, increase in business activities , number of subscribers , profitability , quality of services amongst others.

The work  also evaluated theoretical and conceptual framework, methodological issues and empirical literature relevant to this work. The study  covered the six states of the southwest, Nigeria which include Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti and Ondo. It should be noted there were telecommunication operators like Starcoms, Reltel that are now moribund and Nitel which is currently operating under the name Mtel with zero market share (NCC,2014).Visa phone was  acquired by MTN. Telecom operators targeted in study were MTN, Airtel, Globacom and Etisalat. They all have their head offices in Lagos with branches in the six states.. They have offices in the six states that should be covered. Globacom is however the country’s carrier.