Main One, Phase3 Telecom Partner on Open Access Model in Rivers State

Main One and Phase3 Telecom, two of West Africa’s leading Fibre Optic infrastructure companies, have created a unique connectivity edge that gives oil companies in Port-Harcourt as well as other organizations in Rivers state enhanced broadband access.

Their Broadband Expansion Project officially commenced in February and both companies recently kicked off an awareness campaign in Port Harcourt where they both emphasized the importance of their unique Fibre Optic networks.

Phase3 Telecom has in recent times been emphasizing the Open Access Network as a model that would help enhance reliable and affordable high speed broadband connectivity and has taken steps under a private sector framework to align with Main One to achieve this.

“We want to implement an Open Access Model in Rivers state so that her indigenes can plug into the global knowledge grid. A well connected society stays competitive on the leading edge of development,” stated Stanley Jegede, CEO of Phase3 Telecom, in a recent interview at Abuja.

As a major step towards making robust and reliable broadband capacities available to businesses in Port Harcourt, Main One, in partnership with Phase3 Telecom, has commenced provision of Open Access Broadband Services to the oil companies in Port-Harcourt.

The Main One - Phase3 Telecom Fibre Optic Network Infrastructure is a private sector initiative that promotes a unique Open Access Model for improved broadband delivery in the country.

Phase3 Telecom is bringing an extensive coverage strength that enables the Main One - Phase3 Telecom OFC network reach available to offices that need to have their branches linked out of Port Harcourt city.

This partnership provides great opportunity for government MDA’s to leverage on this unique OFC network presented by the Phase3 Telecom in partnership with Main One to enhance broadband connectivity in and out of Port Harcourt City.

Funke Opeke, CEO of Main One, recently stated at the recent Awareness Creation Event in Port Harcourt, “The oil sector is unique because it is very dependent on information technology and connectivity.

Those we served have used it to transact business at the right time, real time, exchanging highly technical information to get their business done. We are prepared to engineer our services and deliver value to our customers. We are also affordable. We are here to help the oil and gas services deepen their operations in the Port Harcourt area and continue to grow.”

She added that Main One delivers high quality and very reliable connectivity solutions.

The solutions are engineered to meet specific connectivity needs of customers and that the partnership is prepared to embark, extend and deliver services to customers and manage those services to deliver a high degree of reliability.

Main One provides commercial guarantee to back up the brand promise.

At the Awareness Creation Event organized by Main One and Phase3 Telecom in Port Harcourt, Otuya Okecha, head of Business Solutions & Sales at Phase3 Telecom, stated, “Just imagine if the Nigerian government decides to set up an efficient eGovernment platform that enables people to fill government forms online instead of using printed papers, this will stir up a demand for e-government transactions, a demand that the Main One - Phase3 Telecom unique Fibre Infrastructure can adequately address.”

He posited that all MDA’s stand to benefit from the tremendous bandwidth opportunities available on this unique Open Access Network, adding that the unique connectivity edge that Main One and Phase3 Telecom Fibre Network Infrastructure offers can help enhance eLearning opportunities for educational institutions in Port Harcourt as well as meet the bandwidth connectivity requirements of Multinational Companies and Oil companies.

He emphasized the fact that Phase3 Telecom has already demonstrated its backbone connectivity strengths in recent times coupled with a strong after sales support service by provisioning bulk bandwidth to key Mobile Network Operators, Internet Service Providers, MDAs, Financial and Higher Education Institutions in the country.

Okecha stressed the need for users of bandwidth to see Main One and Phase3 Telecom as two wholly African and truly indigenous telecom service provider companies that have fibre optic transmission services as their area of core competence likening Main One to being the shipping vessel that berths at the port city while Phase3 constitutes the pipelines that distribute from the products of the vessel to depots and other terminal points within the hinterlands.

Phase3 Telecom has successfully marketed and sold over 10Gigs of bandwidth since 200