Mohammed Rudman, managing director, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), has revealed that about 90% of Nigerian contents are hosted abroad. He said he is worried that only 10 percent of internet traffic from Nigeria are directed at local content while 90 percent goes out of the country.
He told Nigeria CommunicationsWeek that keeping local traffic local and avoiding international links, would help local operators and users reap substantial cost savings, provide substantial local bandwidth and significantly improve local internet performance.
He urged local Nigerian contents providers who host their servers outside of the country to consider relocating them in other to boost local traffic and save money for the country.
“Media and entertainment Nigerian contents are generated locally but hosted abroad. The day we experience cut to undersea cable infrastructure that links Nigeria to the outside world, we won’t have access to those content which are generated here and are meant for Nigerians,” he said.
