INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
Roadmap to drive future of
Nigerian telecoms
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lobacom has announced a roadmap
to drive the future of Nigeria's
telecommunication sector, including
a plan to introduce new data analytics tools
to capture subscribers' real time experience.
According to Sanjib Roy, Globacom's
Group Technical Director, the company has
extensively invested in network upgrades,
including swapping of legacy facilities. Roy
said the firm is poised to have its best year
ever in terms of quality of service, data
speed and capacity expansion.
He added that the tons of network
equipment that has been brought into the
country during the past year has helped
Globacom build a brand-new network with
superior quality and higher capacity. 300G, giving huge bandwidth for mobile
and Enterprise business.
"Activation is looking up, traffic into the
network is going up and consumption is up,"
said Roy. "All these have been possible because of
quick supply and effective deployment. We
have also deployed more than 2, 000 new
generators and 6, 000 new batteries to boost
customer experience. Work is on-going on
more than 1, 000km of fibre routes where
road construction had affected fibre cabling.”
"A new e-band microwave radio technology
has been deployed, resulting in increase in
backhaul bandwidth to 1.5–2gb per link.
More than 1800 BTS and equal number
of NodeBs have been swapped in Lagos,
Oyo, Ogun and Rivers states. Also, supplied
and deployed are 1000 microwaves to
modernise the transmission network to
IP. The capacity of Glo 1, Globacom's
submarine cable, has been upgraded to
Roy said deployment of high wattage
Radio Remote Units (RRU) for 3G services
and multi-sector antenna had been
concluded for better 3G indoor coverage,
high speed data download, signal quality
and network coverage.
Globacom is also upgrading the capacity of
existing microwave links, converting TDM
links to IP for 2G and 3G, and is deploying
high capacity microwave back up links to
increase data back haul capacity and protect
traffic against fibre cut.
"We are using a scientific and methodical
way of rolling out new sites based on
feedback from regions on where the sites are
needed to address customer complaints,”
said Roy.
“We are also planning to rollout LTE in 1800
band this year in major cities to increase our
4G LTE penetration and allow higher handset
adoption in order to enable the masses to
harness the future. New enterprise products
that will help SMEs and businesses in rural
areas to grow in a digital environment are
also in the works. New sites will also be built
in rural areas to bridge the digital divide
between cities and villages.”
Globacom is set to execute a conceptual
launch of 5G in 700mhz band for an Internet
of Things application this year. n
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