I have been folowing the glo 1 fiber cable for the past one year. It hurts me that after being so patriotically euphoric about this 'accomplishment' some one year ago, Glo appears to be not so striaght foward about this cable. Has anyone followed the deployment of SEACOM in east africa? their website contain up to date information and pictures for all to track the progress. Even main one has more information, pricing details and deployment dates on their sites.

Forward to Glo. their website has very little useful informaton. Infact its more than a big boast than anything else. Then what of the information that Glo and co have been dishing out? for one the capacity of the cable is not clear. Second, the landing date is is anyones guess. Its like predicting the appearance of a shooting star:

Check out this time line;

October 2007 ( http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7184532/Glo-1-nearing-completion.html ) Glo announced way back in October 2007 that their cable was nearing completion

Since that time to date several news sources have continued to cite the completion dates for the project as soon, guess the lack of information is not only within Nigeria e.g. ( http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-171402100.html )

March 2009 ( http://www.telecomsinsight.com/file/71432/glo-1-submarine-cable-to-be-launched-in-march-2009.html http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/glo-1-added-undersea-cables )

April 2009? - In this one its said the cable has been launched! ( http://www.sturvs.com/Business/Glo-1_Undersea_Cable_Has_Finally_Launched_in_Nigeria/ )


June 2009 - this time the cable is one and a half months from Ghana ( http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/compulife/article03//indexn3_html?pdate=030609&ptitle=Glo%201%20submarine%20cable%20heads%20for%20Ghana,%20Nigeria&cpdate=040609 )

November 2009 ( http://www.chairmanking.com/glo-1-cable-launch-moved-november-20090821/ ) don't hold your breath on this one oh, u may suffocate


This article raises important posers for globacom in this business of shifting goal post http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5445342-146/story.csp

I hate to say this but Glo is not so reliable when it comes to stuff like this. I wonder how they attract funding from seroius organisatins with this kinds of unrelible information. Even their promise of rolling out fixed wireless way back in 2006 never materialized, yet

I HATE THIS!!!!!!!!!

@Moderator or who dunit?

why you remove ma post? Was it too critical of glo? I had chronicled their ever shifting goal post for the fiber cable since March 2007 to September 2009.

Nigerians deserve better information.

this country is effed
imagine kenya's is already through with theirs
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=3030

abeg where did this one happen
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=2411

I have been folowing the glo 1 fiber cable for the past one year. It hurts me that after being so patriotically euphoric about this 'accomplishment' some one year ago, Glo appears to be not so striaght foward about this cable. Has anyone followed the deployment of SEACOM in east africa? their website contain up to date information and pictures for all to track the progress. Even main one has more information, pricing details and deployment dates on their sites.

Forward to Glo. their website has very little useful informaton. Infact its more than a big boast than anything else. Then what of the information that Glo and co have been dishing out? for one the capacity of the cable is not clear. Second, the landing date is is anyones guess. Its like predicting the appearance of a shooting star:

Check out this time line;

October 2007 ( http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7184532/Glo-1-nearing-completion.html ) Glo announced way back in October 2007 that their cable was nearing completion

Since that time to date several news sources have continued to cite the completion dates for the project as soon, guess the lack of information is not only within Nigeria e.g. ( http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-171402100.html )

March 2009 ( http://www.telecomsinsight.com/file/71432/glo-1-submarine-cable-to-be-launched-in-march-2009.html http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/blogs/glo-1-added-undersea-cables )

April 2009? - In this one its said the cable has been launched! ( http://www.sturvs.com/Business/Glo-1_Undersea_Cable_Has_Finally_Launched_in_Nigeria/ )


June 2009 - this time the cable is one and a half months from Ghana ( http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/compulife/article03//indexn3_html?pdate=030609&ptitle=Glo%201%20submarine%20cable%20heads%20for%20Ghana,%20Nigeria&cpdate=040609 )

November 2009 ( http://www.chairmanking.com/glo-1-cable-launch-moved-november-20090821/ ) don't hold your breath on this one oh, u may suffocate


This article raises important posers for globacom in this business of shifting goal post http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5445342-146/story.csp

I hate to say this but Glo is not so reliable when it comes to stuff like this. I wonder how they attract funding from seroius organisatins with this kinds of unrelible information. Even their promise of rolling out fixed wireless way back in 2006 never materialized, yet

@ init4moni - Hope its not the Glo type of Story

@ goggs
loooooooool now i'm not sure oooooo

Ok!! Finally some good news. This was in the papers today, so we can expect things to start changing soon.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=153634

ok oh! well knowing glo I expect another round of media razzle dazzle about this. if we see none within seven days, then its another empty talk. that jamel guy?! till I see real solid change on our handsets, our bills and our speeds.

Saw same news in the Guardian. Dare we hope? I hear main 1 cable will be landing next year Q1. Glo has been making these promises. Like last poster said, if by next weekend we dont hear any razzle dazzle and hoopla then na job.

ok. . .thing is landing. . .WHEN will we begin to notice its effect?

The Nigerian Maritime Safety Organization yesterday published a notice to all seafearers around the Lagos area about the cable laying ship for Main One. Now that's definite information. The coordinates are as follows:

05 19.04N
02 51.30E

06 13.27N
03 35.47E

06 25.47N
03 36.00E

To see where the cable is actually landing, copy the first set of coordinates and paste on the 'find' window of Google earth. It will zoom to somewhere in the beaches at Lekki, Lagos. i dont know Lagos that well, and the maps on Google Earth are a couple of years old especially for nigeria. But Eko ni baje citizens should be able to identify the place and let us know if any activity is on.

I dont know if any such notices were put out for Glo 1.

I sincerely hope that Glo 1 will bring true broadband speeds. I envision Glo keeping prices slightly higher than they should ideally be before main one comes on stream in 2010 to introduce some competition.

Main one seems to be more "honest" than glo 1 but lets wait and see, lets hope glo wont keep the bandwith to itself (I wont be surprised. NCC shd not sit idly by and allow that to happen.

I dont mind paying what I do now if the service will improve. Shd not cost more cos there is an increase in supply but then this is Nigeria. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. Just hope competition btw the 3 (sat-3, main one and Glo 1) will force down prices. Are there any others in the horizon? The more the merrier.

i hope glo can now launch their 3G plus in PHC

I just read on mobilitynigeria.com that glo-1 submarine cable has landed in Lagos yesterday.

I hate to be negative, but until I hear about it from someone other than "Jameel", I will not believe it. Does anyone know if the actual building to receive the cable has been built? Has the equipment been installed? It took them two and a half years to get to Lagos(allegedly), I wonder how long it will take to get them to Bonny.

Take a look at this picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebsylvester/3892403158/

well I hear glo says commercial launch in 6 weeks. that'll be sometime in october 2009. I can only hope 6 weeks will be 6 weeks. meanwhile looking for my mtn 3g(?) line to manage the awful speed they spew out.

Concerning answers to delays in implementing the glo-1 project, here's a piece dat contains excuses from the COO, Jameel, It's also interesting to know dat glo-2 is also in the cooler which will connect South Africa through Angola, So let's start milking South Africa back just as dey milk us through DSTV, MTN, MWeb and so on,

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=153809

Below are the excuses from http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=153634


History will be made in the Nigerian telecommunication industry today as Glo 1, the world's first submarine optic fibre cable to be built by a single individual company, lands in Lagos.
The 9,800km long cable which stretched from the UK across all the West African countries, will be anchored to its Landing Station at Alpha Beach, Lagos, this morning.
The trend in the global telecommunication industry is for a consortium of companies or even nations to combine resources to build submarine cables as was the case with the SAT submarine 3 cable which was built by a consortium of 36 countries.
The Group Chief Operating Officer, Globacom Limited, Jameel Mohammed said Glo 1 would deliver transmission capacity that would radically change Nigeria and West Africa's economic landscape by linking 17 countries to the rest of the world.
Jameel said the landing of Glo-1 was another milestone in the history of Nigeria’s communications industry, adding that the cable would provide unprecedented high speed internet services and make telecom services much faster, more reliable and cheaper for consumers.

[b]Explaining the seeming delay in Glo-1’s arrival, the Globacom GCOO said that implementing submarine cable projects, particularly one spanning about 10,000 km from London to Lagos is an initiative that usually takes between two to two and a half years to complete.
Furthermore, he said that because the cable passed through various territorial waters and jurisdictions of several African countries, Globacom had to contend with lengthy approval processes.
“We needed permissions at many levels from all those countries to pass the cable through their territorial waters. We needed approval from security agencies, approvals from oil companies and from various bodies”, he said.He said Glo-1's current and upgradable capacity is enough to provide whatever broadband capacity Nigerians require for the next 15 to 20 years at the minimum projections.He disclosed that the telecoms giant had factored Nigeria's long term bandwidth requirements into the equation, adding that Glo 1 "can carry
voice traffic of all operators internationally. We can also provide IPLC (International Private Leased Circuit) for corporates”.[/b]

He said high quality work was done in deeply burying the underseacable in such a way that there would be little or no chance of disruptions.Glo 1 which also has a dedicated link to the U.S, will revolutionise the provision of telecoms services in West Africa with its quality, speed, reliability and affordability for individuals and corporate organisations.Jameel said the submarine optic fibre cable will also support applications like teleconferencing, distance learning, disaster recovery and telemedicine among several other benefits for Nigerians and the people of West Africa.


http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/

Hi all,  I am the Project Manager for the NEPAD ICT Africa Summit 2010 to be hosted 9-11 FEB at Cape Town International Convention Centre and I am really battling to get contact details for the CEO of Globacom -  Submarine Cable Glo-1. Can anybody assist me?      my website is
.[url][/url]www.ictafricasummit.co.za

What precisely do you want, I might be able to help, I know some people at glo,

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=155738

Barely three weeks after the historic landing of Glo-1 in Lagos, the world's first submarine optic fibre cable to be built by a single individual company, Globacom, today  extends its historic pursuit of economic transformation for Africa as the cable lands in Accra, Ghana.

With all this recent activity, dare I say I'm hopeful?

just wait till dey deploy it

I witnessed the landing of Main One in a beach in Ajah about 3 or 4 weeks ago.

goggs:

well I hear glo says commercial launch in 6 weeks. that'll be sometime in october 2009. I can only hope 6 weeks will be 6 weeks.

toksdara:

What precisely do you want, I might be able to help, I know some people at glo,

Today is Nov 10, 2009. Can "Toksdara" or someone with contact within Glo please findout when this Glo-1 will be commercialised?, How much for a 1Mbps drop in Lagos and/or 1Mbps drop in Ile-Ife on Glo fibrecable.?

the cable is still not connected,

Glo-1 has left UK and reached Senegal and from Senegal has reached Accra.

Now the cable has left Lagos (the landing in aplha beach was the departure of the cable) and is going to accra to get connected.

So when the cable from lagos reaches accra will go live both to ghana and nija

estimated time end of this year

meanwhile their 3G feels like 2G

flyuche:

meanwhile their 3G feels like 2G

I think you mean ¹/₂G

if the backbone of the 3g is not glo-1 it will feel no different than any other 3g out there (msn, starcoms etc)

i think they are rolling it out now in order to hit the ground running when the cable is expected to get connected,

flyuche:

meanwhile their 3G feels like 2G

to me it feels like 0.001G
lol

my question is. . . . . . . when in heavens name wil dey start deploying d glo1 stuf?