Lagos gets telecoms masts agency

THE Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, has established a new agency that would regulate the activities of telecommunications operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the area of masts and towers installations.

The new agency, known as Urban Furniture Regulatory Unit (UFRU), would address anomalies created by persons and organisations that would erect masts and towers indiscriminately without regard to the Lagos State Urban and Regional Planning and Development Law 2010, and other regulations made in respect of the law.

The UFRU, located at Ikeja, would be managed and supervised by Mr. Joe Ibokwe as head of the unit.

Lagos Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Olutoyin Ayinde, who stated this in a statement over the weekend, said UFRU had been mandated to immediately commence its regulatory functions.