Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, has expressed its support to West African Information and Communications Technology Congress (Wafict Congress 2009), which will run alongside the West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology exhibition (W.Afri.Tel).
According to MTN Nigeria it was doing so in the firm belief and conviction that the congress will engender further growth of the sub-region’s mobile phone industry, and indeed ICT market, which has experienced phenomenal growth in the last eight years.
With the theme ‘Harnessing New Technologies for Telecom and ICT Growth in West Africa,’ the congress, MTN Nigeria said, will afford the company ample opportunities to reveal to its growing West African customers and the general public the various new technologies that it has in place to optimize its operations and coverage in order to serve them best in the days ahead.
The three-day Wafict Congress 2009 will run from June 2-4, alongside W.Afri.Tel. While W.Afri.Tel, the exhibition, will hold at the New Expo Centre, Wafict, the congress, will take place at the Coral hall at the Ocean View, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Organized by IT & Telecom Digest, Africa’s foremost ICT magazine, Wafict Congress 2009 will draw speakers and participants from across the sub-region and beyond. Participants for the conference will be drawn from operating ICT and telecom companies, GSM and CDMA operators, the banking sector, the legal profession, the oil and gas sector, government agencies, regulatory bodies, consumer advocacy groups, the academia, value added service providers and Internet Service Providers, among others.
Reacting to MTN Nigeria’s sponsorship of Wafict Congress 2009, Mr. Mkpe Abang, editor-in-chief of IT & Telecom Digest, said that MTN Nigeria has demonstrated leadership qualities by sponsoring Wafict Congress 2009.
“The company is once again affirming its desire to stamp its footprints firmly on the African ICT space like never before. We are sure that MTN coming on board WAFICT Congress is good for the growth of the telecom sector in Nigeria and West Africa as a whole. But more importantly, it is a pointer that despite the achievements that have been recorded in the ICT sector, particularly in mobile telephony in the last eight years, there is still work to be done. And MTN having recognized this, thought it wise to play a major role in WAFICT Congress 2009,” he said.