Glo unveils LTE network; last mile connectivity to follow

Globacom, Nigeria’s second national telecoms operator, has launched a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, Nigerian Tribune reports. [b]Services will initially be available to corporate users in Lagos and other large cities for wireless backhaul, following on from an agreement signed with US vendor Ceragon Networks in September 2010 for the provision of high-capacity 4G/LTE-ready wireless backhaul solutions. Globacom said it will launch last mile connectivity for the LTE network in the near future, as soon as 4G-enabled phones and modems are made available in Nigeria. [/b]Commenting on the network launch, Globacom’s chief operating official, Mohamed Jameel, said: ‘[LTE] will further enhance more demanding applications like interactive TV, mobile video blogging, advanced games or professional services, enabling more Nigerians to be on top of their game and thereby ruling their world. For our subscribers, LTE offers the key benefits of performance and capacity.’

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tomcat:

max on residential is 512/256 and they charge 12,000N + VAT

i have asked them many times for higher bandwidth but looks like their management is very rigid, and i get the idea that are very slow in reacting to the market and being flexible.

i think their phone number is 200 from glo mobile or try broadaccesscare@gloworld.com

naijatoday:

what is the speed in terms of Mbps. sorry i do not understand 512/256

lumzi23:

That is Kbps.

512 Kbps is half of 1 Mbps and 256 Kbps is a quarter.

samir101ng:

To further break it down, 512 is your downlink speed and 256 is your upload speed.

However since the speeds are in kilobits - 512/256 kbps, i have converted them to kilobytes.

This gave me a downlink speed of 64 kilobytes and 32 kilobytes uplink respectively which is poor in my opinion

considering the amount you are paying per month.

I have an HSPA modem with a connection speed of 7.5 Mbps. That's mega bits per second. when converted to

kilobytes, i get 937.5 Kilobytes per second. I can confirm and you can check the internet screenshots thread but i

have reached upto speeds of 1.02MB (Megabyte) using IDM (Internet Download Manager) on MTN 3.5G network. My

normal average speed is above 350 Kilobytes per second. My only problem is the latency issue (300ms & above)

and network stability (it sometimes disconnects or hangs).

@tomcat

Could you please post a screenshot of your speed using speedtest and IDM ? Will really appreciate it.

Djcn:

There are some issues which you did not considered.

A 512/256 kbps DSL is far better than a HSDPA service provided by our telecoms operators

1. [s]Your DSL service is a dedicated service while the other is shared.[/s] Does it really matter for the average user?
2. The Latency for DSL is Lower I don't play online games & it never has been an issue for me.
3. [s]You can download your entire MTN usage limit in less than 48 hours[/s] MTN Hynet is an unlimited option.
4. [s]Alternative technology for DSL in Nigeria is satllite which is far more expensive
in terms of installation and bandwidth prices.[/s] Wimax i believe is the better alternative. It's available in major cities.
5. Your dsl is always on, not dial up Seriously, the law of NEPA apllies here. Still not a major thing.
6 HSDPA is optimised for mobile devices and will remain as such, sure we use them for most of our internet needs but we need other techs to bring about competitive pricing, so the need for DSL, cable and Fibre optics.

Also note that having a 7.2Mbps modem on the MTN network does not translate to better speed cos the bottle neck is 3.6 just as driving a buggatti veroyn on Benin-Lagos road cannot translate to better velocity on the road over a benz 220.

4llerbuntu:

pls help me explain give dem o, which kain 3.6Mbps/

even if u blind sef u go know say that 3.6 na wayo. hell on every mast the pple connected and using that mast at any point in time are sharing that supposed 3.6Mbps

so if una reach hundred at a time na 3.6/100 pple. do the maths.

of course in real time equivs u really may not notice cos of the Qos and the server doing the scheduling and all that but bottomline is u cannot and will not get anything stellar.

when using IDM as we are wont to use to do wayo intermittently on the speed thread, the thing more or less does multithreaded caching, so d speeds u see are like the speeds u got over say a 10 secs period.


on a dedicated line, even if na 56/24 kbps, i dey very sure say when u put IDM on it, your speeds will top 1Mbps constant. 56kbps CONSTANT STREAM IS ACTUALLY BETTER THAN THE AVERGAE NAIJA HAS EVER SEEN!!

so a 512/256 dedicated connection with a latency of 110 ms on a round trip to london is like the fastest thing in nigeria for the end home consumer! FACT!


i see Glo has started their lies again, 4G ko, 100KG nii. when the 3G never make adequate sense. dem wan use dem fibre lie abt 4G

Public Announcement

The management of Globacom Limited wishes to inform the general public that due to a fire incident which occurred at one of our key installations in Lagos on Thursday night, there has been a temporary disruption in services.
The fire incident has since been brought under control and all efforts have been initiated to quickly restore services.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused our valued customers.

We thank you all for your understanding and support.

A spokesman for the company disclosed this following the recent signing of an agreement between it and an oil firm. Some of the companies are PCCW, Airtel Ghana, Airtel Nigeria, C&W (Nigeria & Ghana operations), IPNX, Swift Networks, Shell, TotalElf, Chevron, United Bank for Africa, FinBank, Nigerian Bottling plc, P&G, and almost all the major media companies.

In addition, MTN also embarked on the deployment of fibre optic cables across the country to boost the transmission capacity on its network and as at October 2010, a total of 8,052 kilometres had been covered. This makes it the longest Fibre-optic cable ever laid in Africa and definitely one of the most modern.

whatalife:

glo just launch 3g service here in lokoja, did a speed test on their network , i download 25mb in 1min 32 secs @ 789KBps.
Please those who been using glo 3g service ,is this speed fair? i run cafe just thinking of switching to it

goggs:

what I get is 1gbps, sometimes up to 2gbps

welcome to the world, enjoy!

denzel2009:

For you to get that speed, they must have connected the fibre optics cable directly to your laptop.

whatalife:

@goggs,
I have being on vsat for 6 years the best i ever achieved is 90KBps now is over 700 KBps at night the thing is downloading @ 1.6MBps
Unbelievable

EMMAACHILE:

Most people confuse it. kbps is different from kBps.
In lokoja, glo speed is approximately 2kbps to 2.4kbps[b][/b] all through the day which is about 236kBps to 260kBps.
It is amazingly fast.
Reminded me of Ibadan where i lodged in a hotel in feb 2010, i downloaded at speeds of 260kBps with multilinks cdma rev