BusinessDay... the voice of business: Celtel Nigeria to spend $10 million on NMC

Celtel Nigeria to spend $10 million on NMC
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Ben Uzor JNr on 26 March, 2008 12:00:00
 
which will be set for completion by the end of this year.
According to the chief operating officer of Celtel Nigeria, Lars Storks, the
project set for completion by the end of this year will enable the company
achieve real-time fault detection and rectification in all its operations.
The essence of the project is to enable the company proactively and effectively
monitor telecommunications services and operations in Nigeria.
Speaking in Lagos on the company’s plan for better quality of service
delivery, Stork noted that in 2008, Celtel was committing another $1billion in
making a final push for world-class quality of service.
Celtel plans to build 17 new switches across the country that can provide
quality of service to about 20 million subscribers on its network.
Already, the company has already commissioned two of its switches in Abuja and
Kaduna respectively.
In 2008, the company intends to lay a 4,000-kilometre fibre optic transmission
backbone; additional 2,000-kilometre microwave transmission backbone
(supplementary to the existing 3,000-kilometre); nationwide generator swap-out
and dualisation and additional 1,000 base stations (to the existing 4,100).
This will by no small means enhance the integrity and robustness of the network
in the coming months and ultimately result in world-class quality of service.