Main One Cable Company, a leading West African communications services company and the first private undersea fiber optic cable to land in service in Nigeria and Ghana, will be among a group of top telecom companies that will exhibit at the 14th Annual AfricaCom 2011 Congress, an exhibition and conference that focuses specifically on the telecommunication needs of the African continent.
The event, which takes place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa, on the 9th and 10th of November, 2011, is reputed to be the single largest congress and exhibition involving telecoms, media and ICT companies in Africa.
The AfricaCom Congress is expected to attract over 5,000 attendees, 650 CEOs and about 1338 companies from 105 countries. There will be presentations from over 150 of Africa’s leading operators, regulators, carriers and providers, analysts, solutions and technology providers, ICT companies and broadcasters, who will share their vision for Africa’s future telecommunications landscape. The attendees will also discuss operator models aimed at delivering better services in a more demanding market.
Speaking ahead of the event, Adebayo Oyewole, Head, Marketing and Strategy, said the exhibition is a platform for telecom industry practitioners in Africa to meet, network, and discuss the latest market developments such as broadband penetration, the pervasiveness of mobile money platforms, and international connectivity and capacity, among other topics in different panel discussions and meetings involving experts from Africa’s digital ecosystem.
He further added that the event will afford Main One Cable an opportunity to leverage its bouquet of services that includes IP Internet Access, IP Transit, Colocation, Managed Data Services and wholesale broadband to both large telecom operators, small and medium ISPs and enterprise customers. “We successfully launched our IP-NGN platform in August and we are now providing services to enterprise customers in the financial services, oil and gas and hospitality space.
We are also handling customer requests that are seeking colocation and managed services from both of our state of the art data centers in Nigeria and Accra. Our goal is to provide these services locally, enable local switching of traffic in Africa and improve the user experience as it relates to latency and performance”.
He said that apart from networking with other participants, Main One will use the forum to exchange ideas on strategies for increased capacity utilization in Africa and share insights with peers across Africa and beyond on the challenges and opportunities facing the broadband market in Africa especially as it relates to taking the huge capacity now available to areas that are yet to feel the impact.
Oyewole restated Main One’s commitment to continue to deliver quality broadband service to its markets in West Africa. He said that Main One’s services on the continent have been bolstered by a focus on the reliability and availability of its network, finding solutions to the diverse business requirements of its customers, and ensuring that through its various collaborations, it enables optimal service from a Tier 1 provider.
