The Impact Of Introduction Of Global System For Mobile Communication (GSM) On The Nigeria Economy
Chapter One
Preface
Background of the Study
It a demitasse clear that without communication, there would be no society. Communication gives room for peacefulco-existence among mortal being. That’s why there are series of academy of studies on the conception of communication. Development and growth of any country depends on the mode of communication of transnational relations, that’s why utmost countries of the world has its own sanctioned language. This shows that communication is material in all mortal conditioning and development.
Communication has been defined similarly by academic scholars and scholars, but the aged meaning of the term in English can be epitomized as end of ideas, information and stations from person to person.
previous to the emergence of the Global System for Mobile Telecommunication( GSM), table telephone and cellular phones was in Nigeria. The telephone assiduity was sewed up by the government duringpre-liberalization period at it was allowed that only the government had the finances to develop the nation’s telephone structure. Before independence in 1960, telephone access was first developed in 1886 to give a telecommunication links between British social administration in Nigeria and their home country, Britain( Ajayi, Salawu and Raji, 1999). therefore, telephone access was oppressively limited to these many directors.
The world is fast getting a global vill and a necessary tool for this process communication, of which telecommunication is a crucial player. The amount development in the telecommunication assiduity each over the world is veritably rapid-fire as one invention replaces another in a matter of weeks. A major advance is the wireless telephone system, which comes in either fixed wireless lines or the Global System for Mobile Communication( GSM)( Wojuade 2005).
History of GSM in Nigeria
Global System for Mobile Telecommunication( GSM) was recommended to the Military administration of General Abdulsalam Abubakar which caused Nigerian Communication Commission( NCC) to grant licenses to Celia Motophone Limited, Mobile Services Limited and United Networks Limited and they were charged to give GSM network services in Nigeria.
still, the Olusegun Obasanjo administration in 1999 tagged the exercise fraudulent, abandoned the licenses and introduced the telecommunication policy which empowered the Nigerian Communication Commission( NCC) tore-organize, transaction and issue fresh licenses to successful companies who could give for Nigerians an effective and cost effective telephone system.
After rigorous bidding and payments of license freights of$ 285million, three companies, Nigeria Telecommunication plc( NITEL), MTN Nigeria and Econet Wireless were granted Digital Mobile Licence( DML) on 23rd March, 2001 with 90days deadline to start operation, operating license validity of 15 times, five times exclusivity period, binary band frequence assignment, a disclaimer of periodic operating tax( not further than 25percent of periodic development) direct transnational access for the first time of operation, direct transnational access for own subscribers to grease roving. therefore, on 7th August, 2001, Econet Wireless( now Airtel) commenced operations for GSM Services in Nigeria, followed by MTN, Nitel, Globalcom and lately Etisalat.
According to NCC, there are 63 million GSM subscribers in Nigeria as at 30th September, 2010.
Uses of GSM
In Nigeria, there are colorful orders of GSM products and Services. Conceptually, the druggies include the high political office holders, carriers and shakers of the society, youths, entrepreneurs, crafters, military rank and train and numerous further. With the passage of time, people are more inclined towards technology and mobile phone is the burning illustration of the technological influence upon mortal being. You can talk with others, record some spectacular moments of life, hear to music, install game, operation, vids, transfer data and lines to other compatible bias and visit World Wide Web, these are the introductory rates of the rearmost mobile phone which makes life briskly and mobile.
thus, looking at colorful uses of GSM product and Services it bring to mind the great impact and impact the new technology has brought to bear on the time of Nigerians.
In the recent once formal/ informal communication were carried out through letter writing, a process which take overhead of three month to move from one part of the country to another, but it’s common place moment to transferred or call short textbook communication to9 one or further individualities at the same time.
Some folks have come fashionable with trendy handsets and special ring- tones. To this class your handsets or ring- tone must make a statement as to what class one belongs. They believe that poor folks tend to buy cheap GSM handsets while the high and potent carry more precious handsets. Some GSM handsets are equipped with digital cameras which come handy at occasions where events are recorded for the future. Those who are familiar with the computer terrain could transfer similar filmland to screen saviors , shoot them to others via the internet or publish them with colour printers. GSM handsets have come mobile reader of some feathers.
Others are with erected- in radio for news, sports, music and entertainment in an attempt to replace transistor radio. It could be carried from one place to the other without hindrance with incoming calls or dispatches thereby making druggies to be over- to- date with information as they unfold in the course of the study. intelligencers have come to appreciate the immense benefactions of GSM to their work of news gathering, telephone interviews and reporting have come common place especially in the electronic media as well as videotape clips and photos on the spot to support new stories.
The GSM handsets are equipped with calculator that could take up 12 integers, timetables beyond 2050, time, date, arsonist light, alarm timepiece, cybersurfer, and numerous further.
Advertisers are catching in on the GSM revolution as products and services are regularly announced through the GSM thereby boosting deals and adding gains for the growth of the frugality. For want of relaxation or fun, installations like games are abundant on GSM handsets to task minds and relax the individualities.
GSM has reduced the cost of doing business as it has docked distances, bridged gaps between business associates, grease work collaboration, manage time effectively thereby adding productivity. The preface of the GSM makes movables morere-assuming as cancellations of meetings are incontinently communicated.
Business in Nigeria has bettered with the preface of GSM, goods time, goods and services are delivered in good time, detainments are more managed and extremity are timely prevented.
Families have come closer than ever through the use of GSM, information is passed fluently to members, especially when mates are staying piecemeal due to work, academy or other challenges. Inversely important point of the GSM is the capability to connect to the internet with the Blackberry. This has made communication a lot easier for business men and women and others who bear the internet to do their work. The Blackberry gives access to the World Wide Web in any position within or outside the work terrain. Seasonal felicitations, religious dispatches, assignation to observances and others have set up a safe heaven with the GSM because it saves time, plutocrat to use the electronic device than the conventional styles of assignation or seasonal cards.
Statement of the Problem
Without dicing words, communication is a major motorist of any frugality. Nigeria isn’t left out in the race for rapid-fire development, as the times of profitable reversal via operation have had of adverse goods on its rate of growth and development. The Nigerian telecommunication sector was grossly under – developed before the sector was deregulated under the military governance in 1992 with the establishment of a nonsupervisory body, the Nigerian Communication Commission( NCC). Since also, the NCC has issued colorful licenses to private telephone drivers( PTOs) to roll out both fixed wireless telephone lines and analogue mobile phones. The return of republic in 1999 still paved way for the permission of GSM licenses to three service providers, MTN, ECONET,( which is now AIRTEL) and NITEL plc in 2001 with GLOBACOM joining in 2003.
Seven times after the preface of GSM in Nigeria generally, problems association with operation and goods of GSM is still present. druggies are still faced with challenges of how to maximize the advantages brought by new technology, manage high tariffs, manage with poor services, face challenges of theft, mobile falsehoods, scammers and host of others.
lately, the Federal Road Safety Commission( FRSC) linked use of GSM while driving as a major cause of road accidents in Nigeria.
School authorities have noted in recent history, the astronomical increase in the use of GSM by scholars to cheat during examinations.
On the family front, couples are known to have quibbled, introduced divorce cases over substantiation of infidelity by one of the mates with the support of the GSM.
Fraudsters have cashed – in on the GSM device, using it as a dependable tool to dupe, steal and kill innocent victims.
Exploration Questions
To achieve the ideal of this study, the following questions were raised.
Does the preface of GSM give job openings to Nigerians?
Has the preface of GSM reduce the rate of crime in Nigeria?
What are the benefactions of GSM to the Nigeria frugality?
Has mobile telecommunication( GSM) increased income and the living norms of Nigerians?
Exploration Hypotheses
The following conditional statement should be treated for significance to help the experimenter make valid conclusions in the course of the design, these are
H1 The preface of Global system for Mobile Communication has
no significant impact on the Nigerian profitable development.
H2 The preface of Global system for Mobile Communication
has significant impact on the Nigerian profitable development.
H1 preface of Global system for Mobile Communication has not
reduced the rate of crime in Nigeria.
H2 preface of Global system for Mobile Communication has
reduced the rate of crime in Nigeria.
H1 The arrival of Global system for Mobile Communication has no
significant impact on job creation in Nigeria.
H2 The arrival of Global system for Mobile Communication has
significant impact on job creation in Nigeria.
Points And Objects Of The Study
The specific objects addressed in this study are the below exploration questions which ultimately dove – tagged into exploration suppositions.
This exploration work aims at
Determining the direct impact of GSM on the development of Nigeria frugality.
To serve as a companion to policy makers to review the policy on telecommunication so as to allow for further and further challengers to engage in the telephony services.
To determine the goods of GSM on druggies and society at large.
To find out the impact of GSM in Nigeria frugality.
To expose operations and the challenges facing network providers.
The purpose of this study is to probe the impact of Global system for Mobile Communication( GSM) on Nigeria frugality and emphasizing the nature and characteristics of the conditioning for which it’s used, the factors that promote its uses and its benefits.
Significance of the Study
As a study that seeks to probe the impacts of GSM in Nigeria frugality, it’ll suggest ways of maximizing benefits of the new technology as well as proffer results on managing its goods.
It’s particularly because it’ll educate the people on the stylish ways of managing negative goods of GSM services in Nigeria.
The study will increase literature for mass – communication scholars and professionals wishing to carry out analogous studies for farther exploration on uses and benefits.
Compass Of The Study
The area of content of the study focuses basically on the goods of Global System for Mobile Telecommunication( GSM). nevertheless, Mobile Telecommunication Network Nigeria( MTN) was used on the case study; this led to the derivate and conservation on the staff and workers of the mobile enterprises. The exploration work will be a half done loaf of the druggies of the network drivers was left out. The study conducted some disquisition as regard the druggies and subscribers of the establishment( MTN).
Though, fastening important attention on the MTN staff investors, druggies and subscribers doesn’t regard other network providers( similar as GLO, Airtel ETISALAT, etc) inapplicable to this cause of study. They also helped on making this work useful and applicable material.
Functional Description Of Terms
GSM It’s a alternate generation telecommunication technology, else known as Global System for Mobile Telecommunication.
Stakeholders A person or company that’s involved in a particularly association, design system etc especially because they’ve invested plutocrat in it. In this environment, those who have invested coffers in provision of GSM services in Nigeria.
druggies According to Oxford Advanced learner’s Dictionary, a person or thing that uses commodity. In the environment of the study still, druggies are the subscribers of the GSM services and products.
Teledensity Number of serviceable lines to number of population of a given position.
Uses In the environment of this study, colorful forms of action which GSM could be put.
Mast A altitudinous essence palace with upstanding that sends and receives signals for the telecommunication companies.
Communication Passing of ideas, information and station from person to person.
Subscriber in the environment of this study, a person who pays to admit telecommunication service.
Internet an transnational computer network connecting other networks and computer from one place to another.
Media the main ways that large figures of people admit information and entertainment i.e. radio, reviewetc.
Technology scientific knowledge used in practiced ways in diligence.
Tariff in the environment of this study, a list of fixed prices that are changed by telecommunications companies for a particular service.
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