LITERATURE REVIEW ON EFFECTS OF TELECOMMUNICATION ON NIGERIAN ECONOMY

PREAMBLE

The quantum development in the telecommunications industry all over the world is very rapid as one innovation replaces another in a mater of weeks. A major breakthrough is the wireless telephone system which comes in either fixed wireless lines or the global system for mobile communication (GSM) (Wojuade 2005). However, this section of the seminar tries to review related works of different scholars which are relev out to the topic of study (that is, “Telecommunication”). Automatic Number identification is a feature of telephone intelligent Network services which permits subscribers to display or capture the telephone number and geographical position of the calling parties when you are called, the number of

the caller is shown on the receivers Mobile phones. The receiver has to decide either to answer the call or not.

The journey to success in Nigeria telecommunication milieu has been long and tortuous. Telecommunication facilities in, Nigeria were first establish 1886 by the colonial administration. At independence in 1969, with a population of  roughly 40 million p people. The country by then only had 18,724 phone lines for use. (J.O. Ajiboye 2007). This translated to a tele –densityt about 0. 5 telephone couper per 1,000   people. Between 1960 and 1985, the telecommunication sector consisted of the department of posts and telecom (pst) in charge of the internal network and a limit ed liability company, the Nigerian External telecommunication (NET) limited   responsible for the external telecommunication provide the getway to the outside world.