The Natcom Development and Investment Limited, trading as ntel has promised to launch into the Nigerian
market, a pure play Fourth Generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network
commencing with Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, reports
ITRealms.
4G is an International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) specification that is evolving for broadband
mobile capabilities and
enables Internet Protocol (IP)-based
voice, data and streaming multimedia at higher speeds and available at least
100 Megabit per second (Mbit/s) with high mobility and up to 1 Gigabit (GBit/s)
with low mobility also known as nomadic.
Chief Executive Officer, ntel, Mr. Kamar Abass gave this
assurance at a median chat with senior editors in Lagos, in their scale of
portfolio roll out that the company which took over the assets of former
Nigerian Telecommunications (NITEL) and its mobile arm, MTEL plans to launch a
pure play 4G LTE mobile service that would offer high-speed data,
high-definition voice and video.
“In its first phase ntel will launch international bandwidth
services over SAT-3 and a 4G mobile network covering Lagos, Abuja and Port
Harcourt,” he asserted.
According to him, in the first phase, ntel would deploy
estimated 800 cell sites with the projected plan to increase this figure to
2,000 sites.
Abass assured that ntel would not join the league of 4G
pretenders in the country, insisting that when the company decided to offer 4G,
it was emphatic.
He also said that ntel would leverage its SAT-3 for
international voice terminations, stressing that the SAT-3 partnerships would
enable direct exchange of International Direct Dialing (IDD) traffic with 35
partners.
“Since July 2015, ntel has delivered 10 million IDD
minutes to Nigeria,” he declared.
On the international bandwidth delivery, he said, with
SAT-3/WASC, ntel provides connectivity from Lagos to Sesimbra, Portugal and
Lagos towards Cape Town in South Africa and countries in between.
ntel, he further said provides international bandwidth
cum Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity to carriers and major corporates
between Nigeria and international destinations.
While on metro bandwidth, Mr. Abbas pointed out that with
over 1,100 kilometres of ducts and over 4,000 kilometres of fibre route in
almost all states in Nigeria, ntel is enabled to offer fibre capacity services
to all across the nation.
On the Fixed services, ntel CEO said, would in the future
provide fixed network services to homes and businesses where extant
infrastructure could be leveraged at minimal incremental cost.
Also said explained why they are coming into market and
still have high hopes for the Nigerian market is that they believe in
technology based on broadband usage, which drives growth drawing its strength
from 4G.
As said by him, broadband usage would spur telecommuting,
facilitate forestry preservation from less paper with some new services paving
the way for smart homes and grids.
People, he said, would be better connected because they
would have better social relationships with improved education through
electronic learning (e-learning) as well as impact on the gross domestic
product (GDP) of the nation.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms)
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