Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF)
 

Pursuant to Chapter VII, Part IV of the Communications Act of 2003, the Federal Government of Nigeria established a Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) to facilitate the rapid achievement of national policy goals for universal access to telecommunications, information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The Fund will seek to promote the following objectives in rural and underserved areas of Nigeria:

	Contribute to national economic and social development through enhancing the universal accessibility and availability of telecommunications and ICT infrastructures and services
	Facilitate the provision of access to ICT services within a reasonable distance to all persons in Nigeria
	Facilitate provision of infrastructural development to rural and underserved areas in a non-discriminatory manner
	Promote technological innovation in ICT services delivery
	Promote competition in ICT services delivery
	Ensure effective utilization of funds to leverage investments in rural communications
	Support the establishment efficient, self-sustaining, market-oriented businesses, which will continue to expand access to ICTs on their own initiative, requiring the minimum amounts of short- and long-term Fund support possible.
	Use ICT to promote greater social equity and inclusion for all the people of Nigeria