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Nigeria: We Did Not Take Over Communication - Nigcomsat
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Leadership (Abuja)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 27 March 2008
Jacqueline Opara
Abuja
Worried over the miscarriage of its intentions by the media and the communications sector, the managing director of Nigerian Communication Satellite (NigComSat), Engr. Ahmed Rufai, has debunked claims that they are to take over the communication industry in Nigeria, instead they have only been talking about enhancing the capacity of delivering services.
Rufai said this yesterday at Abuja Sheraton Hotels, where a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed together with Linklsene Limited, the foremost internet providers in Nigeria and VIASAT Inc., a global manufacturer of cutting edge VSAT.
He said the MoU is part of the steps taken by NigComSat to fast track the process of addressing the challenges of communication in Nigeria.
He further said that the most important benefit of the MoU is to have efficient internet access, voice over network protocol services, corporate local area network connections via VSAT satellite moderns which would be available to rural areas corporate enterprises, schools and government clientele over an initial period of five years.
He said: "this strategic cooperation will have a positive multiplier effect on the growth of the Nigerian economy and the quality of life of the citizenry, particularly in terms of access of the resources of knowledge for social, economic and political participation."
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Rufai also made it known that NigComSat has the best transponders in the whole of Africa which is the K.A. band, saying that the soft beam platform which is coming from Linkserve with the VSAT from VIASAT would bring about a multimedia backbone that would minimise expenditure in infrastructure and service provision.
The chairman of Linkserve Limited, Mr. Chima Onyekwere, who signed for his company, said that NigComSat, Linkserve and VIASAT will provide data facilities that would be better than any in Africa and can compete with any internet facility worldwide.
He said the breakdown of Orascom, NigComSat is obviously the best satellite provider in Africa, hinting that all the bandwidth will be completely exhausted before the end of August.
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