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goggs (m)
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@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.
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goggs (m)
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@ init4moni - Hope its not the Glo type of Story |
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init4dmoni (m)
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@ goggs loooooooool now i'm not sure oooooo   |
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goggs (m)
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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.
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stanloski (m)
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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.
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netotse (m)
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ok. . .thing is landing. . .WHEN will we begin to notice its effect?
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goggs (m)
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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.
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stanloski (m)
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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.
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flyuche (m)
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i hope glo can now launch their 3G plus in PHC  |
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IG
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I just read on mobilitynigeria.com that glo-1 submarine cable has landed in Lagos yesterday.
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jdoss
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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.
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goggs (m)
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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.
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toksdara (m)
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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=153809Below 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. 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”.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/ |
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Charlaine (f)
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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 |
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toksdara (m)
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What precisely do you want, I might be able to help, I know some people at glo,
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goggs (m)
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I have this unquenchable curiosity about what Glo is up to on Glo 1. I googled, asked, requested, searched and all but I came up with very little. My latest findings on balancing act africa website (this week edition) http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html I dont know what to make of this ISSUE NO 473 25th September 2009
Main One will land in five places in Africa and makes alliance with Tata for European connections
Nigerian-owned Mainstreet Technologies said this week that it is on schedule to be operational by June 2010 and that the building of landing stations has started in Ghana, Nigeria and Portugal. Also there will be three other landing station points in Africa with landing station partners to be announced in 2010. Russell Southwood spoke this week to Main One’s Commercial Director Bernard Logan.
In a classic fog of unreliable information, the much-delayed Globacom-owned Glo One cable announced in early September that it had landed in Lagos. However, what this means is less than clear as one report spoke of the ship leaving Lagos for Accra. The Glo One cable will definitely land in Accra and Lagos but the press announcement spoke of it having 14 branching units to serve other West African countries and a potential phase 2 to South Africa. But it has to be said that there is precious little sign of Glo One appearing in some of those 14 countries.
The telcoms industry in Nigeria has rather given up on Glo One as we are told it is not yet able to provide prices to its potential customers although judging by its retail behaviour in the mobile market, it will seek to offer the cheapest bandwidth in the market.
Meanwhile Main One seems to be making steady progress to becoming the second competitive cable in West Africa by June 2010. According to its Commercial Director Bernard Logan, it is “80% through production” of the fibre, has “started its first lay in Ghana” and is building three landing stations in Ghana, Nigeria and Portugal.
It will land in Tenerife, Morocco, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire by making agreements with landing parties: these will be announced in 2010. It will be interesting to see which landing parties are announced for somewhere like Senegal: there are only two options – Sonatel and Expresso – and the former is already a partner in the France Telecom competitor cable ACE.
Although the market for international fibre is going to be very competitive with four new cables (Glo One, Main One, WACS and ACE), Main One is already contemplating upgrading its starting capacity from 30 gbps in June 2010. It has an overall potential capacity of 2 tbps. It has attracted “tier one customers” who are already invested in other cables:”We have customers who’ve already bought who will also buy on other cables. They don’t want to put all their resources into one system. They’ve already seen the net effect of dealing with SAT3”.
So what will the price be? This answer to this question rather depends on how many cables there are in the market but it is safe to assume that there will be four by 2011. According to Logan, capacity will initially be “20% of today’s rates” based on today’s rates being around US$5 million for an STM1.
“By 2011, prices will have come down again because there will clearly be more competition. However, WACS and ACE are consortium cables (primarily designed to serve their members) and the Glo One cable is self-feeding for Globacom. In both cases, their idea of price will be very different from ours as an independent cable.” But by 2011 he expects further price falls:”There will be further falls of 50% a year and I fully expect that. Fibre markets around the world work on that basis.”
In terms of getting the bandwidth in and out of the continent, Main One has an alliance with Tata for European connections onward from their Portugal landing station and other strategic relationships for further afield. But unlike Seacom which has partners to deliver to POPs inland at the same price as at the landing station, Main One will rely on its customers to get the capacity to the inland countries. However, it is constructing an inland route between Accra and Lagos with a partner to create a redundant ring and one side-effect will be the delivery of its bandwidth to Togo and Benin.
“Our plan was always much simpler than Seacom’s. We wanted to reach the landing stations and we’re always expecting to maintain ourselves as a wholesaler. It will be better for the landlocked countries to build routes to get to the landing stations.”
Bernard Logan has been involved in 12 fibre cables in the last 20 years. His previous job was for TWA , a cable linking Pakistan to the UAE.
Correction: In issue 472, we said that Africonnect had 900 customers and it should have been 2,000. Also it charges US$50-150 for a 512 kbps connection on a 12:1 contention ratio.
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jdoss
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http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=155738Barely 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?
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lynxnoon (m)
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just wait till dey deploy it
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babniyen (m)
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I witnessed the landing of Main One in a beach in Ajah about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
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experto
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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. 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.? |
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tomcat
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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
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flyuche (m)
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meanwhile their 3G feels like 2G  |
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mikesleek (m)
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meanwhile their 3G feels like 2G I think you mean 1/ 2G |
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tomcat
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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,
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lynxnoon (m)
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meanwhile their 3G feels like 2G to me it feels like 0.001G lol |
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lynxnoon (m)
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my question is. . . . . . . when in heavens name wil dey start deploying d glo1 stuf?   |
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