Chief executive officer of Broadband Connectivity Nigeria
(BCN) Limited, Mr. Ibrahim Dikko has said that his firm is building a long
distance and metropolitan-based fibre optic infrastructure and is currently
manages the largest fibre optic network in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Abuja.
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| Ibrahim Dikkom CEO, BCN |
Speaking at the weeklong Idlelo5 conference which opened
at the Shehu Musa Yar Adau Centre, Abuja on Tuesday, in a good will message, he
said that BCN strategy is to build this infrastructure for the open cyber
grazing of innovative ideas, products, services and opportunities.
He underlined the notions of freedom of access, freedom
of knowledge and freedom to engage in constructive activities towards
actualizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs0 for the betterment of
mankind which underlines open source thinking.
Also, he noted that BCN pioneered FTTX – optical fibre
and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy network infrastructure development in the
country.
“We manage the largest fibre optic network in the Federal
Capital Territory,” he declared.
Dikko equally said that BCN is presently upgrading its
optical fibre network to Gigabyte Passive Optic Network (GPON), while
simultaneously expanding and deploying new metropolitan and long distance
networks across the country.
He, therefore looks forward to partnering with members of
the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), especially
through its Nigerian affiliate, the Open Source Foundation of Nigeria (OSFON)
for the collective benefit of the populace.
As said by him, BCN understands that its customers does
not pay precisely for its infrastructure, but for the solutions to their own
real life challenges that BCN infrastructure supports.
“Thus, we are all in a symbiotic relationship. We need
each other,” he said.
Dikko further affirmed the support of BCN for the
on-going process to create a National Communication Infrastructure and the
deployment of a National Fibre Optic Backbone.
He emphasized that the business of infrastructure is a
long-term business that requires long-term funds, strategies and continuity of
pragmatic and well thought through policies.
Dikko commended the minister of Communications
Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson for listening to infrastructure providers and
other stakeholders.
“We pray for her success, because we believe that her
success is our collective success,” he said.Remmy Nweke
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