18 results
- 1 Jun 2009
Suburban Telecom Connects Nigeria and Ghana with Inland Fiber Optic Cable
Suburban Telecom, a subsidiary of SubUrban West Africa, has successfully deployed an inland fiber optic cable Network that now link Nigeria to Ghana and some francophone countries of Benin Republic…
- 22 Jun 2009
Suburban Expresses Commitment to Consolidate on Regional Connectivity
Bruce Ayonote, group chief executive officer, Suburban Telecom West Africa, has reiterated the commitment of his company to bring backbone connectivity and other telecom value added services to West…
- 5 May 2009
Suburban Re-strategies for Efficient Service Delivery
Suburban West Africa, the holding company of the Suburban group of companies, has restructured its board of directors and has expanded its management team, in order to prepare the company to achieve…
- 28 Jul 2014
NgREN Pushes Bandwidth Demand to 377 STM-1
Launch of Nigerian Research and Educational Network (NgREN) recently have increased bandwidth demand by telecommunications operators, banks among other companies using the commodity to 377…
- 16 Feb 2014
SAT-3 Service Cut Leaves Internet Users Stranded
The growth in the Nigerian internet data market has suffered a major setback as SAT-3, the 15,000km undersea cable which lands in eight West African countries including Nigeria as it winds its way…
- 15 Feb 2010
11 M Nigerians Scramble for 30 SPMs
Only a paltry 30 SPMs bandwidth is available to the about 11 million Internet users in the country resulting in the slow and sometimes frustrating access to the information superhighway, Nigeria…
- 2 Apr 2015
Nigeria Ranked 2nd In Broadband Affordability Index’s Among Developing Economies
The International communities recently ccommended for the successes attained in repositioning her technology space, through the broadband initiative. In March 2015, at Barcelona, Spain at the Mobile…
- 27 Oct 2008
Sat-3 Glitches Ground Businesses
Businesses in the country that depend on the Internet crawled at snail speed for the better part of last week after Sat-3, Nigeria’s backbone internet infrastructure suffered major damage…
- 21 Sept 2009
Suburban, Tata Communications Partner on Network Support Services
Suburban West Africa, supplier of wholesale Internet, international connectivity and corporate data, has entered into partnership with Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) India, for…
- 19 Mar 2012
MainOne to Land in PH, fetes Accra Customers
MainOne Cable, West Africa’s pioneer open access submarine cable company is firming up more deals to have its presence felt outside Lagos by landing in Port Harcourt, Rivers state before end of 2012,…
- 25 Jan 2016
Stakeholder Urges FG to Revive NRTP Transaction
A stakeholder in the telecommunications sector has urged the federal government to expedite action towards handing over the National Rural Telephony Projects (NRTP) to the preferred bidders as a way…
- 18 Jan 2022
Fixed Broadband – The Next Big Thing for Nigeria
By: Rajiv Aggarwal Nigeria urgently needs rapid rollout of broadband services to address the country’s various socio-economic challenges. Rajiv Aggarwal, Head of CEWA Market Unit at Nokia With a…
- 5 Dec 2012
Our Plans for Starcomms by Capcom
Capcom , the special purpose vehicle solely created to make an equity investment into Starcomms has revealed an ambitious turnaround strategy for the troubled telecom operator including a significant…
- 19 May 2020
Keeping Mobile Networks Running Top Priority During COVID-19 Pandemic - Traboulsi
Ericsson organized a media webinar to discuss network capacity, performance and digitization as service providers gear up for an unprecedented situation presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ericsson…
- 12 Jan 2015
ARTON Expresses Frustration over Delay in Handover of NRTP
Association of Rural Telephony Operators of Nigeria (ARTON) waxed worriedly at the weekend over the continued delay in the handover of the National Rural Telephony Projects (NRTP) five years after…
- 13 Aug 2012
NRTP: FG Mute on Kano Zone
The federal government has said that it is yet to take any decision on the Kano zone of the National Rural Telephony Project, a part of the little successful $200 million initiative conceived in 2001…
- 30 Apr 2020
AI and Automation Provide the Performance, flexibility, to Pave Way for New Levels of Connectivity
By Sunaina Davet As organizations across the world are impacted by an unprecedented crisis, it doesn’t need to spell disaster. In fact, leaders who comprehend how to successfully navigate a crisis…
- 31 Jul 2012
Billions Waste as Bureaucracy Stalls NRTP
National Rural Telephony Project (NRTP), the little successful $200 million conceived in 2001 to take telephony services to the rural areas is now caught in a web of confusion, claims and…