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Why is this front page news?

What is so special about a person being denied entry to a high security facility? mscheeeeew!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hope so

glo has collapsed where i am in Abuja

The data network has been down for 3 days straight. MTN however is something else. I get regular 1.6 mbps even now (speedtest.net).

i think u expect too much too soon. Shei its similar to what people said not long after gsm came.

4llerbuntu,

you are right oh. But this is a reflection of the anxiety Nigerians are feeling about glo, and i dont think its a bad thing to critically analyse a situation like this moreso when our journalist, who should be asking the questions, are just numb. What beats a bunch of enthusiats like these fine people in here following a story with such keen interest? I think we should keep following this up to the 'logical conclusion', whateve that is.

Just to add to the story, Punch of today says Jameel is sayin October for inauguration. This ding dong story is also playing out in the media.

ok so na you be the Registrar of the University ba? why must people call you to get such information?

Guys the post JAMB test will hold from the 22nd - 24th of this month (September). There is yet to be word on weather scratch cards will be used but come prepared.

@ samir101ng

My chairman, there is difference between laying a cable and lighting it up. So just because glo has fibre in those places i mentioned doesnt mean there must be 3g. I suspect they are using satellite for internet access and cant switch on 3g anywhere else or their access will grind to a halt. I can confirm globacom have cables from abuja through makurdi to yola. How? I am a regular traveller through that route and through out 2008/2009 their black cables are being buried along that route. Spoke to a guy who works for their contractor on that project ie laying fibre along markurdi yola route Telnet Nig ltd and he confirmed it was glo thy were workng for. Also i know they had a very serious problem when tiv villagers will allow them dig along the road without payment. Thank God tensions were diffused before harpless travellers were trapped

I am sure that the cables are only used to carry limited traffic not full data. I am sure thats what glo has been posing with as their 10,000 km fiber network within the country. I also noticed that for a year now calls from abuja to several places in the north east from abuja has none of the hetertho annonying delays and echo which was the norm using satellite links.

@netotse

@goggs
PHCN has fibre optic cable attached to it's 330kV transmission lines(and some 132kV) as skywire, in the north the cables are leased to 3phase telecoms(cornelius adebayo) in the south dancom (dangote) i hear one of them just awarded a contract to build 700 base stations(and an NOC i think) they can be used to carry the traffic to different parts of the country(i think they are already being used sef, i'm not so sure), the downside is that once in a while, the cables might be vandalized.

Thanks for the update. Yes I now remember 3phase telecom. I don't know if they carry traffic sha. I hope they do cos it'll take good access further up country.

@ naijatoday

his question might sound silly, but

the telecom companies can connect their 3G (mobile) to the submarine cables, right ?

I dont think any question is silly.

Plain and straight forward yes to ur question. I have a feeling you are trying to get to something, so out with it

wait a minute guys. what about main one that has launched with etisalat, starcomms and MTN on board? nothing seems to be happening on these networks in terms of speed not to talk of tariff reduction. in fact starcomms has gotten so bad i had to throw the modem away.

Well one fact remains, no operator has globacoms fiber network aka last mile infrastructure. When they get there acts together, they could be the network to beat on the account of this infrastructure.

The absence of fibre links for some providers between Lagos and the rest of the country will mean that improved services will be restricted to the Lagos area for now. This, I think, is particularly true of Starcomms and etisalat. They will likely redirect their Lagos traffic (which is the bulk in terms of demand) through the undersea cables and for us in the rest of the country it will likely be access through slow satellite links. And the result is that costs are unlikely to come down soon and they will face harsh competition from Providers that have such links like glo and MTN.

NCC licensed some long distance carriers like NEPSKOM and Alheri Engineering. They were supposed provide the sort of cross country links that companies like starcomms and etisalat can buy capacity from. It will save them money as the infrastructure will be shared and maintained by the carrier company. As far as i know NEPSKOM is barely existing, Dangote (Alheri) strung some fibre between Lagos and Benin 2 years and now  cement business seem to be the most on his mind.  

Thats where glo has an advantage. It has fibre links from Lagos through, ibadan, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano. I hear also it runs from Abuja to Jos, Markurdi Yola and maiduguri. Dunno much about the coverage in the east sha. If and when they get their act together and truly launch, they can easily deploy this bandwidth further than most  providers cos of these cables. So that's why when glo made the announcement about their cable, people paid attention cos of this potential to reach inland but alas, information management is not their strong point hence the back and forth story telling and subsequent intense frustration we all feel.

As for MTN in Abuja, they are the network to beat. I can attest to the fact that their speeds have improved vastly. On browsing alone I get 1.5mbps on the average, when downlowning using accelerators i get up to 2.6mbps. My only gripe is that the data allowance is so expensive and runs out so fast. They also have extensive fiber network and they appear to be using them. They are really not much noise makers when it comes to infrastructure investments. I heard from a contractor of theirs the other day that MTN wants to incorporate Universities in their metro fibre link project to provide internet access to institutions in towns where their fibre passes. Now if its true, its fantastic and yet MTN may just keep quiet and spring a surprise. Imagine the bandwidth market in just half of Nigerian Universities.

If it were glo, they would be at the rooftops talking about what is not yet on ground using annoying superlative terms. MTN is annoying expensive, but action is better than noise. I'll go for expensive action other than cheap noise.

I hope glo learns to keep their mouths shut and their hands busy. I hope they launch sooner than later, cos the prospects are there

bigger YAWN!!!!! This glo press story is begining to sound like a scratched cd plate playing a loop over and over again. In todays punch, jameel was quoted as saying glo1 will be launched in october. This was the same paper in early august quoted jameel as saying glo 1 will be tested mid august and launched on 1st september.

Well one fact remains, no operator has globacoms fiber network aka last mile infrastructure. When they get there acts together, they could be the network to beat on the account of this infrastructure.

Meanwhile MTN's WACS is moving on steadily with 2nd quarter as completion target

supported

forget that your post is off point on this thread, this sounds like stealing. And you call some people selfish? I would rather be selfish than a thief. The later can land u in jail while the former will not.

@flyuche
Not from where i am browsing. Its still less than 20KBps on their 3g network. Which press release are u talking about? Any link? Thanks

@netotse


Ha! ha!

am an environmentalist with an INSANE love for gadget and internet stuff!!!!!!!!!!

@netotse

note my post

update read in the punch of today that globacom indicated that glo 1 will commence service on September 1. In the same article Mr Jameel was stated to have said sometime in September. Well it looks like it will be the end of the year.

I knew the journalist was not really straight forward and sure so I was careful to allude as much. You know how some Nigerian journalist are

update read in the punch of today that globacom indicated that glo 1 will commence service on September 1. In the same article Mr Jameel was stated to have said sometime in September. Well it looks like it will be the end of the year.

@ naijatoday

I read an article in Punch about internet service and it talked about Main-one and Glo-1 and said it (glo) was coming in September.

What??!!

Mohamed Jameel, the Chief Operating Officer of Globacom told journalists last week after a meeting of operators and the Nigerian Communications Commission that Glo-1 had just finished undergoing some testing work.

"The Glo-1 submarine cable has been undergoing some testing work, which we just concluded. We would be due to begin operations in four weeks time or before the end of August 2010," Mr. Jameel said.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5592225-147/infrastructure_challenges_limit_internet_service_.csp

Counting down oh. 7 more days before the end of August oh. Mr Jameel has been dribbling us since 2008. He must be the Maradona of Telecoms in Nigeria. My fingers are crossed

When this glo 1 thing commences, I am very sure Glo will make so much noise. Looking forward to it.

the richer the state, the bigger the loot. Unfortunately the people of the richer states do not enjoy commensurate standard of living. Its time that the Nigerian people begin to ask their governors questions.

The governors, especially the Niger Delta governors need to translate this 'riches' to better life for their people instead of all these excuses they are giving. I fear that with the present scenario, even 100% resource control may not transform anything for the life of the common man on the street. We need to get back to the basics by overhauling the dysfunctional system that allows such mind boggling corruption to thrive with no justice or punishment.

I fear the term richer or poorer state means nothing in the Nigerian context. We are all losers unless things change, and change real fast.

sorry dude. Had a similar problem, though mine was with a baby boy. I was really confused until a smart mech discovered a sensor cable behind the injector assembly unplugged. With that fixed the car was back to its old self. Dunno what the sensor does, but the mech didnt ask for anything, my thanks were enough.

Hope it helps

@ samir101ng

I am with you on this post!

I experience this so often. once its 10pm MTN goes bonkers, keeps disconnecting incessantly till 12 - 12.30 am, it gets steady. Only in naija will a network so steal from people!!!!!!!

Jameel also disclosed that the Glo 1 submarine cable will be commercially launched in August. He revealed that in the middle of August, Glo 1 will launch services first on Globacom traffic and then a week later launch the cable commercially for all Nigerians.

August 10, 2010. time 10.50 pm:

10 days down, 20 more to go. After laying cables around my town, glo signals turned from 3g to 3.5 g, One small step for glo; one giant leap for their battered, goal shifting, PR disaster image. I wish them well, truely.

My advice to Madam Minister is to resign.

Her family uses thugs to settle quarrels, imagine! She cant control her staff. She couldn't even set/enforce standard protocols for press releases in her own office now using the press aide as a fall guy. She has brought the office of the minister to disrepute. Imagine the damage it would cause to Nigeria if the matter were to be a National matter.

Imagine her saying that according to auditors NNPC is not insolvent when the Managing Director of the NNPC himself put it in writing to the Minister of State for Finance! Which auditor was Akunyili talking about when two months earlier Mr President requested that the Minister of Finance engage a world class auditor to audit NNPC. If the internal auditors of the NNPC were to be believed then why hire external 'world class' auditors to do the job? The MD of NNPC is yet to deny his letter. Any student of economics 101 would know that when your liabilities are more than your income you are broke, simple. The story about NNPC being owed 1 trillion Naira by the FG amid NNPC's own debt of 400 or so billion Naira is just like the banking sector. Whats the difference between 'insolvent' oceanic bank, intercontinental and  NNPC? May be Jonathan should deploy Sanusi as petroleum Minister so he can sack the entire NNPC management and prepare the company for sale. What is good for the private sector is good for the public corporations shikenan.

Back to Akunyilli. As the DG of NAFDAC she performed very well; as a minister, she is a disaster!

there is nothing like feeling for the masses here cos the masses themselves will benefit. How much do you think that barber joe uses to fuel that his I pass my neighbor? if you consider how many of us use generators with the attendant cost of fuel, fumes and maintenance you will know that privatization is the way to go. We want the good things of life but dont want to work for it. Just because we hate Sanusi we demonise his forthright comment. We admire other countries but fail to realize what sacrifices they made to make things work.

Privatization is the way to go. It reduces critical industries in the hands of the government and enhances efficiency

hey time out

This story cannot be true for the following reasons;

(i) If Cameroun were to make a move for Obudu, it would have made front page news all over the world. Haba two significant nations in Africa (Cameroun and Nigeria) almost went to war on a similar case (Bakassi)

(ii) Take a look at the location of Obudu in google earth (6'40''07'' 96 N and 9' 09'' 39''.79) its 60 km due east to the cameroun border. How in heavens name can Cameroun claim that far terrritory into mordern day Nigeria?

Remember that early last century the entire northeast voted to join Nigeria while south west cameroun voted to join Cameroun. If its to be a swap then fine. Bakassi should come back to Nigeria.

I think we are wasting our time blowing hot air over nothing  

wrong my guy, those models manufactured in 1967 are all faded out by boeing, so if u are using it, it is at your own risk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737

Its best to research a little before posting.

2008 model

http://www.toyotapedia.org/2008/01/23/2008-toyota-corolla-ce/

funny enough no one is asking the right questions. How much is Nigeria's 2010 budget that N500 billion will be used for just defense? Common guys. I doubt the story, The linking of this story to IBB, Yayale and co is really watery.

See what the Navy is asking for close to $300 million dollars worth of acquisition, What of the airforce, navy nko. That kind of expenditure on the military will surely be featured in the news (e,g jane defence weekly) and questions will be asked by multi lateral institutions about the propriety or otherwise of such an expenditure when power, roads and others are in shambles. The Navy may have asked but I doubt if any sane government will to such an expenditure given Nigeria's present position.

http://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/Bill2010.pdf