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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   COVER STORIES Globacom set to carry 1b minutes of traffic in one year By Okoh Aihe Wednesday, August 25, 2004 LAGOS — SECOND National Operator (SNO), Globacom, yesterday said its massive roll out of gateways in the country and  various parts of the world had positioned it to carry at least one billion minutes of international traffic in the next one year. Three  hundred and fifty million minutes of the one billion are expected to be generated from Nigeria. In addition to the four gateways already in Nigeria, two in Lagos and one each in Abuja and Port Harcourt, and the one  launched in the UK last week, Globacom is also planning gateways spread across various hubs of the world, including the  United States, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia, and the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East. In effect,  Globacom is building a parallel telecom  platform that may not only place Nigeria strategically in international traffic but open up  new business vistas in the telecom sector. Speaking in Lagos, Mr. Ashok Israni, the Chief Operating Officer of Glo Gateway, the subsidiary of Globacom overseeing the  project, said the infrastructure roll out would guarantee subscribers high quality international services at affordable rates. Globacom has a bundled licence which enables it to provide digital mobile services, fixed line services, international gateway and  broadband services. But the major challenge is in building an infrastructure backbone to roll out these services. As the SNO, Globacom enjoys access to the SAT3 submarine cable which connects Nigeria to the world for voice and high  speed data transmission. For fear that this vital traffic route will be congested in the near future, Globacom, Israni continued,  planned to invest in a high quality fibre optic cable which will be installed inside the ocean from Lagos to the UK for direct  connectivity for Europe and the rest of the world. This will cater for long term bandwidth requirements and address current  traffic trends.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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