Foremost Integrated ICT
solutions company in Nigeria, the Zinox Technologies has entered into a
strategic agreement with NIGCOMSAT, operators of Nigeria’s communications satellite
to boost broadband deployment nationwide.
General Manager of
Zinox Ms. Kelechi Eze, told DigitalSENSE
Business News that the partnership promises to be one of the biggest
purchase deals for NIGCOMSAT since its launch in 2011.
She described the deal
as a massive bandwidth purchase to enhance the capacity of Zinox to provide
affordable Broadband internet connectivity to structured organizations, the underserved
and unserved parts of Nigeria through the use of satellite and Fibre
technologies.
This, she said,
consolidates the position of Zinox as the prime mover of digital knowledge democracy
based on the use of electronic platforms to increase knowledge and wealth based
capacities, and also job creation within the context of the local content
policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Eze also said that the
partnership with NIGCOMSAT is viable because Zinox had made huge investments in
the installation of a state of the art iDirect Evolution Satellite Hub, which
technology, which enables Zinox to continuously provide better triple solution Voice
over Internet Protocol (VOIP), Data, Video, and Internet access experience
throughout Nigeria and West Africa.
“Our technology
Platform guarantees redundancy Internet access through VSAT and Fiber
infrastructure using MPLS technology,” she declared.
The Executive Director,
Marketing of NIGCOMSAT Mrs Abimbola Alale who signed on behalf of their managing
director, told DigitalSENSE
Business News said that partnering with a world class Nigeria companies
like Zinox Technologies is what the country needs in practical broadband
deployment. Noting that both companies have huge capacities to meet the needs of
Nigerians.
Chairman,
Zinox Group, Dr. Leo-Stan Ekeh in telephone conversation told DigitalSENSE Business News that
the decision to work with NIGCOMSAT in spite of the pressure from multinational
communications satellite companies was deliberate and in line with the inward
looking policy of the Zinox Group.
“We
need to recognize our own and uphold the local content policy by patronizing
our own satellite” Ekeh added. According to him, Nigeria will be a better place
if we build local capacity that can compete favorably with their counterparts
elsewhere in the world,” he said.
Ekeh also explained
that the world is not waiting for Nigeria, hence, if the nation and her people must
meet up “we must run as fast as our legs can take us. And the time is now. I
have said it elsewhere, empowerment of the people to join the knowledge economy
has to be a deliberate policy by government and we must encourage the
government in our own small way”.
Remmy Nweke
... Making SENSE of digital revolution!
Pix: Olufunke Fagbeja Business Dev - Zinox; Chioma Amuchienwa; Business Development - Zinox; Abimbola Alale; Executive Director, Marketing - NIGCOMSAT; Adamu Idris; Senior Manager, Marketing - NIGCOMSAT; Kelechi Eze; General Manager; Reginald Obiakor; General Manager and Alma Udoyen; Ag Co Secretary
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