… PH coming up in May
Latest entrant into the Nigeria’s
telecommunication sector as the fifth Mobile Network Operator (MNO), the ntel,
has kicked off commercial roll out of its activities on acclaimed most advanced
Fourth Generation (4G) cum Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, reports ITRealms.
Confirming this, the chief executive
officer (CEO) of ntel, Mr. Kamar Abass, informed ITRealms at a media launch in
Lagos Friday that he was delighted.
“On behalf of the staff and directors
of NatCom, this eighth day of April 2016, we start commercial activities on our
newly commissioned 4G/LTE-Advanced network,” he declared.
This commencement of its phased and
paced commercial operations, Abass said comes with bumper offers for early bird
pioneers and data users.
“The first 100,000 to redeem and
activate their ntel SIMs will get free on-net calls for life while data
subscribers will get 3 months unlimited data usage on select bundles,” Abass
disclosed.
Very earliest customers, he said,
would be able to buy and use these services in clusters, across Lagos and Abuja
from sales outlets and agents featuring the network bright new brand name:
ntel.
ITRealms
notes that ntel’s commencement of commercial operations is the culmination of
their journey from acquiring the old NiTel/MTel assets to the delivery of
successive milestones underlining their growing operating capability on their
new fixed and mobile network infrastructure.
With the formal commencement, ITRealms gathered that commercial services
will be available on ntel’s 4G/LTE-Advanced network across key site clusters in
Lagos and Abuja. While coverage in Port Harcourt will follow during May, along
with expanded coverage in Lagos and Abuja, and subsequently to other states,
across multiple geo-political zones, during the second half of 2016.
The company, ITRealms further reports, said their
4G/LTE-Advanced technology built on the 900/1800MHz spectrum will deliver an
unbeatable and game-changing customer experience of high-speed Internet access
up to 230 Mega Bytes per second (Mbps), the fastest available in Nigeria today
thus enabling a world of full mobile broadband experiences that will transform
both lives and livelihoods.
Equally, Abass, a strong advocate of
4G/LTE, said his team is passionate at ntel about the power of broadband to
boost productivity and, thereby, transform lives,
“We expect to see this happen as ntel
helps to accelerate the ongoing migration, from existing 2G and 3G services, to
genuinely high-speed Mobile Broadband on 4G/LTE-Advanced,” Abass submitted.
Uj. N. Dominic/GEE
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Pix: CEO, Abass with his team.
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