Charles Odiase, head of Glo Gateway, has announced that Globacom is said to spread across Africa, especially because its Glo Submarine Cable will have 15 landing points in Africa
Charles highlighted that the increase in Bandwidth requirements across Africa, Globacom will provide Africa the services offered by broadband, when Glo-1 comes on stream. Glo-1 is being built by Alcatel Submarine Networks, the leading provider of cable information in the world.
That cables will allow Globacom to have clear characteristic to provide quality services and high quality links to various countries across the world and it will allow interconnect with several international networks and leading traffic carriers in the world. The cables will carry data and internet traffic between Nigeria and the rest of the world.
Charles emphasized that the cable has infinite capacity and offers sufficient capacity for traffic from the company’s mobile, fixed or internet telecommunication services and also carry traffic from other operator that would lease the service.
“The undersea cable is designed with the latest technology and it is the first such state of the art submarine cable which will connect Nigeria directly to United Kingdom and further to the United States, the two major data hubs of the world. It further enhances Nigeria’s capacity to provide telephone hubbing services for the rest of the world,” said Charles
Charles added that Globacom’s plan is to have Gateway infrastructure and switches in Africa, Europe, America, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirate and in Australian. Globacom’s international operation is backed by four state-of-the-art gateway it has situated in Nigeria, two in Lagos, one in Abuja and one in Port Harcourt.
Charles disclosed that 95 percent of Private Telecommunication Operators (PTO) in the country relies on Globacom to carry their international gateway to carry international gateway to different parts of the world. Glo has extend3ed its prepaid roaming service to six other countries to allow Nigerians to have more affordable communications.
By IT News Africa staff reporter
