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Telecomms Today:Glo-1 lands in Lagos - As Nigeria breaks telecoms record

Posted by 9jabook.com on September 6, 2009 at 9:56pm
History will be made in the Nigerian telecommunication industry as Glo-1, the world’s first submarine optic fibre cable to be built by a single individual company, lands in Lagos. The 9,800 km long cable which stretched from the United Kingdom across all the West African countries, will be anchored to its landing station at Alpha Beach, Lagos, this morning. Paddy and Otunba Mike Adenuga 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 three Cable which was built by a consortium of 36 countries. The Group Chief Operating Officer, Globacom Limited, Muhammed Jameel, said Glo-1 would deliver transmission capacity that would 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 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 boss 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 and a half years to complete. He said further 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.
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