The commitment of the USPF to ICT penetration in Nigeria has been described as exemplary and worthy of emulation. In a review of the pace of ICT penetration in Nigeria in 2009, the Chairman of Zinox Computers Leo Stan Ekeh, singled out the United Service Providers Fund, the USPF, for praise. In a review that has just been made available to the media, the Zinox Chairman said that the review was necessary because of the pivotal role that ICT is expected to play in national development.

The ICT revolution would pass Nigeria by without regular evaluation of ICT penetration in Nigeria. The economic meltdown that upset the world economy in 2009 took its toll on the performance of the ICT market in Nigeria with new low levels of disposable income amidst crushing poverty. The situation, the review said, was not helped by the fact that there were no deliberate interventions to enhance access to ICT equipment in 2009 from the Governments of the Federation. The review condemned the lack of a follow-up to the CANi of 2004/5, the Government initiative that sought to provide computers for all Nigerians.

However, the educational institutions, driven by the global competitive trend continued to invest on ICT in 2009 but such investments were still too feeble to turn around the face of education in Nigeria. The review decried the poor density of 2,000 computers in a school of over 30,000 students' population, teachers and other support staff not included.

The educational sector is critical because the schools are commissioned to produce the work force that this nation requires to be competitive. The review commended the efforts of organizations like NCC/USPF, the Education Trust Fund, ETF, USAID, the CBN, NITDA, Total Fina Elf, and MTN, just to mention a few, for their commitment to the provision of ICT infrastructure in Nigeria..

The review singled out the NCC/USPF as exemplary in its commitment because the USPF has gone beyond the educational institutions and provided ICT equipment to many communities.

Statistics available show that the NCC has deployed largely in almost every tertiary institution in the country through the Adapti and Digital Awareness Project, DAP, and even provided wireless internet. The USPF, the review from the Zinox Boss said, has also provided all tertiary institutions in the country with digital labs connected with internet while secondary schools nationwide were provided with e-learning platforms - laptops and internet in her on going national SAP Project. The review acknowledged the depth of the USPF's intervention in the communities known as Community Communication Centers, designed to reach under-served communities in Nigeria.

Leo Stan Ekeh explained that these centers are nerve centers that primarily link their communities with the information highway enabling individuals and small businesses to exploit resources from the knowledge domain. Each center would provide telephone services, which must include free round the clock emergency telephone services, provide electronic or manual public access messaging system, which must make all messages accessible to the community within 30 minutes of receipt, and create free access to computers and internet services. In addition, each center would provide ICT training services for users of the CCC, and render other optional business services required to meet the needs of the local market.

The review said that these commendable interventions have still not brought Nigeria near closing up the digital divide. He urged other corporate persons to emulate the commitment of the NCC/USPF and aim at providing comprehensive ICT solutions to educational institutions and communities. The report described a situation where a bank donates 2 computers to a school in the full glare of the media as laughable and a mockery of corporate social responsibility. It recommended that Government should explore ways of making it mandatory for banks, insurance, oil and gas, telecoms and other blue chip sectors to invest a percentage of their profit on the development of ICT infrastructure in schools.