NewsDirect awards: Medallion is ‘Data Center of the year’ - ITREALMS

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Reputable data centre company, the Medallion Communications Limited has been pronounced the 'Nigerian NewsDirect 2018 Data Center of the-year', reports ITREALMS.

The award pronouncement was made and presented at the Nigerian NewsDirect 8th Anniversary Award of Excellence held in Lagos with theme, “Indigenous Participation/Economic Recovery & Growth Plans: Roles of Corporate Governance, Banks Credit, Oil &Infrastructure.

Reacting to the award, the Chief Executive Officer, Medallion Communication, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani applauded the daily newspapers outlet for its recognition, and dedicated the award to the management of the company, as encouragement to do in the Information Technology (IT) space.

“For us, this award is a call for diligent service so as to create more enabling environment for the Nigerian Telecom and ICT industry. This is a testament to contributing our quota in creating quality of services to subscribers at affordable prices is well recognized by the industry. This is ultimately our goal.

“We want to take connectivity and content to the last mile and the users. This will create employment and ensure that subscribers get value for money they spend on telecom services,” Nnamani declared.

In addition, he said their organization’s goal is to expand services to more people across the country, stressing that they believe the more the content is closer to the end users, the higher the quality and ultimately the cheaper the price to them.

“We will be expanding our network coverage to additional six cities this year. Moreso, the country will feel the impact in the area of better prices and quality of services,” he said.

According to him, with the fast rate of changes and development in the IT Space, Nnamani noted that Medallion expansion would provide the operators the platform to embrace and utilize upgraded network services.

"We need to be able to provide the operators with the needed infrastructure to provide their services.

"4G and 5G Network is impossible without the operators going to data centers to collocate or interconnect,” Nnamani said.

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BOICT Awards 2018 says Best ICT Clearinghouse is Medallion

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The telecommunications infrastructure servicing company, Medallion Communications Limited, has been adjudged the best Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Clearing House of the Year 2018, reports ITRealms.

This was proclaimed, at the Beacon of Information and Communications Technology Awards, organized by Communication Week Media, last weekend at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

But reacting to the award, the Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, told ITRealms that as a company, it is exciting because receiving the award goes to show the ICT industry recognizes Medallion’s contributions to the industry, which reports says is presently contributing 10 percent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

“We are happy for the awards we got at the Beacon of ICT event. It is a testament that the industry has continued to recognize the work we do and the contribution we are making to the industry,” Nnamani said.

Also, ITRealms gathered that Mr. Nnamani, was pronounced the ICT Enterpreneur of the Year, admitted the award is also a call for more effort from Medallion so that the company, touted as Nigeria’s Telecom House will be recognized and win future awards.

“The award tells us that people are watching and are appreciative of the effort we have been putting into making the Nigerian telecom industry more vibrant and efficient.  It also shows that hard work has its rewards so we will keep working hard and adding value to the telecom industry in Nigeria,” Nnamani reiterated.

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Confirmed! NCC lifts license suspension for Medallion

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has lifted the license suspension placed on Medallion Communications recently, just as the company described the initial suspension as shocking, ITRealms can confirm.

Affirming this development to ITRealms, the chief executive officer, Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Ikechukwu Nnamani said that the recent suspension of the interconnect license of Medallion by the telecom regulator based on allegations of involvement on call masking, has been reversed, describing the suspension, a most unfortunate one.

“It is one that should have never happened in the first place. He confirmed the suspension has been lifted by the telecom regulator,” he insisted, stressing that initial reason given by the regulator was that the company was involved with call masking.

“We totally rejected that, since we knew we were never involved in call masking. It was practically impossible for us to be involved since we do not bring in international traffic into the country and all the calls we terminate on other networks was sent to them as we received it from the originating network. “It was, therefore, shocking and strange that the regulator would accuse us of call masking and even went ahead to suspend our interconnect license..,” he said.

Further, Nnamani said, they believe in the rule of law and the telecom industry in Nigeria operates under the guidelines of the Nigerian Communication Act 2003.

He pointed out that the Act stipulated that when an operator disagrees with any determination made against it by the Regulator, the licensee has the right to appeal and ask for a review of the decision and most importantly has the right to demand that a given written reasons why you were punished and the evidence against you so you can properly respond.

“In the event that you do that and there is still no agreement between the Regulator and the operator, the operator has the right to seek redress in the law court. In our case we wrote to the Regulator asking for evidence against us that indicates we were involved in call masking.  No evidence was presented to Medallion indicating we were involved in call masking.

“I am glad to report that following our appeal of the suspension the Regulator has lifted the suspension against Medallion and we are now able to run our interconnect business.  I am also glad this was resolved without Medallion needing to take the Regulator to court which was to be our next line of action if our request for review of the decision was not positive in line with the provisions of the Communication Act 2003,” he enthused.

ITRealms recalls that Medallion Communications has the most interconnected peering point in West Africa, with over 83 service providers, including all GSM, LTE, CDMA operators, Fixed Wireless and Fixed line operators connected to its infrastructure.

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