Latest entrant into Nigeria's telecommunications market, Ntel has concluded plans to roll out offerings from April 8th. Ntel, which plans to begin from Lagos and Abuja, said it will offer Nigerians fourth generation long run Evolution (4G LTE) network service.
The chief govt Officer, Ntel, Kamar Abass, who disclosed this the day gone by, in Lagos, mentioned that each one is about for the commercial launch following link from completion of agreements with channel companions as well as go-forward from Nigerian Communications commission (NCC).
Abass stated the telecommunications regulator has accredited all licence authorization fundamental for Ntel to launch its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) community making use of subsequent new release telecommunications infrastructure.
He said Ntel has deployed about 600 base transceiver stations (BTSs) within the two cities with 2000 sites to be rolled out because the network expands. Abass stated already 200 kilometers of fibre optic transmission cables have been laid in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt for seamless network connectivity. He mentioned Ntel has deployed LTE evolved, the latest 4G technology with multi-antenna MIMO websites. "we are rolling out physical sites in two cities on our 900MHz and 1800MHz bands to launch Voice over LTE come April 8, 2016. We have now signed agreements with trade partners and fulfilled all licence authorizations and payments and we're up to date. There are no impediments to our launch," he said.
Abass said NATCOMS Investments Ltd, the mum or dad enterprise of Ntel has mission over $1 billion investments over the next 4 years. To ensure soft take off of its mobile network, the NATCOMS has completed the development of Tier III data center as good as reactivation of SAT3 submarine worldwide fibre optic cable.
It will be recalled that NATCOMS had final year paid $252.Fifty two million to gather the belongings of the defunct first countrywide operator (FNO) to industrial operation on its mobile network. In line with Abass, despite the growth of the telecoms sector in Nigeria which has obvious voice subscriptions upward thrust from less that 60,000 in year 2001 to over 147 million as at 2015, broadband usage has most effective grown via 20 per cent.
He mentioned NATCOM has come to fill the hole bringing Nigerians unfettered access to full cell broadband each on voice and knowledge services. Over the next 4 and half of years, the whole quantity of mobile broadband buyers on my own can be greater than all of the buyers that have come into the market on cellular due to the fact that its inception. In different phrases, we are at a point where a essential transformation is within the making. You will see 168 million cell broadband customers coming into being between now and the end of 2019, which is more than all the mobile customers (each slender and broadband) that we have now noticeable in the last 15 years.
"That appears like an tremendous transformation. With regards to the supply of broadband offerings, we're specific for the reason that we now have more spectrum, which is able to deliver extra throughput than any network to be had in these days and potentially any community someday. The spectrum we have now has designated facets that are with no trouble unrepeatable on some other spectrum band" Abass mentioned.