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The Nigerian Computer Society (NCS)has asked the government to issue 3G licences. According to the president of NCS, 3G mobile communications services provide a window of opportunities for job creation in Nigeria. The government has been requested to to grant additional licences to increase the diffusion and deployment of wireless and internet access in Nigeria’.
The 3G concessions have been granted to Glo Mobile, MTN Nigeria, Zain and Alheri Engineering, by the government. However, only Glo and MTN have rolled out next generation services and Etisalat has applied for the 3G licence.

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Ghana’s recently anointed sixth mobile licensee, Globacom, has confidently predicted that it will sign up two million subscribers in its first year of operations, on the strength of its ‘multipurpose and inventive products’. After finalising the licence acquisition deal with the regulator, National Communications Authority (NCA), Globacom COO Mohammed Jameel said his firm’s presence in the country would be a good thing since Globacom hoped to ‘transform and modernise the industry while exposing nuisance products being offered by their competitors’. ‘The government and the people of Ghana can only expect the very best in telephony from Globacom as we are set to roll out very aggressively in Ghana shortly,’ he further added.
Glo Mobile, banner under which Globacom markets its services, is expected to begin commercial operations in Ghana by the end of the year and plans to invest $2 billion in its network rollout programme.
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Nigeria’s four GSM operators will receive sanctions from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) next week for poor quality of service to their customers, reports local paper the Tribune. The decision to sanction the operators comes after six years of persistent complaints from subscribers over dwindling quality of services. A source in the NCC said yesterday that the operators would be fined NGN500,000 (USD4,000) for each area in which they failed to render good service from next week. The source said the NCC has sent ‘directions’ to the operators to improve their service within seven days or ‘risk the hammer of the regulator’. Areas of concern include wrong billing, bounced SMS, dropped calls, unregistered and fraudulent marketing and poor treatment of customers by call centre staff. Another source at the NCC said that ‘directions’ was a technical term used in the telecom industry meaning ‘indictment for poor operation’. According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database, Nigeria’s four GSM operators are, in order of market share: MTN Nigeria, Glo Mobile, Celtel Nigeria and M-Tel. They shared a total of just under 28 million subscribers at the end of 2006.

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Telegeography writes…Nigeria’s second national operator (SNO), Globacom, has announced plans to introduce triple-play high-speed internet, TV and telephony services over a single broadband connection. The service will be offered by Globacom’s fixed line subsidiary Glo Fixed, due to be launched shortly, and will be made available in 13 cities with an initial capacity of 300,000 lines. This follows the USD600 million deal signed with French vendor Alcatel-Lucent last week to deploy a next-generation network (NGN). No specific launch date for the service has been given. Globacom’s mobile subsidiary Glo Mobile had an estimated eight million customers at the end of September 2006, around 30% of the market.

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’s Glo Mobile has grown its subscriber base to 9 million in the three years since its launch, Vanguard reports. The Globacom subsidiary is

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’s second-largest mobile operator after MTN. The company is celebrating its third anniversary with a package of new products and promotions. It has introduced Glo Xcite for entertainment, news and information content and Glo Caller Tones to replace monotonous default ring tones. Globacom COO Mohamed Jameel also said the fixed-line operation would start offering services to corporate customers using its fibre network by the end of the year.

Source- http://www.telecompaper.com

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Second National Operator, Glo Mobile, says it is offering subscribers 15% instant recharge bonus on its electronic Personal Identification Number (PIN) recharge, otherwise called Glo e-PIN. In the new offer which will end on September 30, 2006, Glo Classic subscribers will enjoy 15% or N75 instant bonus each time they recharge their accounts with N500

Glo e-PIN. Until now, bonus on Glo N500 e-PIN was 10% while the bonus airtime on the N500 physical recharge card remains 10%.
The Glo e-PIN is a 14-digit recharge number loaded unto CDs for dealers who in turn retail them to end users either via SMS or by printing them out. It is another recharge option to the conventional recharge cards.

Besides the N500 e-PIN denomination on which the 15% instant bonus is offered, Glo e-PIN is also available in N1,000, N2,000, N3,000 and N5,000 denominations with instant bonus airtime ranging from 15% to 40%.

With the e-PIN recharge option, Glo Mobile subscribers have two modes of recharging their phones, Ehimen stated. They are the physical recharge cards and the Glo e-PIN.

For the distributors, the e-PINs offer considerable savings in warehousing and logistics costs.
Globacom says it will continue to live up to its rating as a truly Nigerian brand that is sensitive to the challenges and needs of its subscribers by putting options at their disposal.

Electronic commerce is sweeping through the country and Globacom is playing an active part in these sweeping reforms through the introduction of Mobile Banking, Glo Direct, Glo Internet service, Blackberry and Glo e-PINs.

…asPort Harcourt winners of promo get cars, generators and cash

Glo Mobile subscribers who emerged winners in the Port Harcourt and Owerri regional draws of the Glo Jumbo promotion have been presented with their prizes.
The lucky subscribers received their prizes at a combined presentation ceremony held at the Presidential Hotel, Port Harcourt. Six subscribers according to Glo, won Kia Picanto cars while another 6 won 5KVA generating sets at the Port Harcourt draw. At the Owerri event, 5 people won Kia Picanto cars, with 5 subscribers also winning generating sets. 50 subscribers won cash prizes of N25,000 in each of the two draws held last month.

The draws are part of the Glo Jumbo promotion in which N.5 billion worth of prizes including 180 cars, 180 5KVA generators, cash prizes and airtime are to be won in 180 days.

33-year-old Mobile Police Corporal, Adozi Solomon, a car winner in Port Harcourt, expressed appreciation to Globacom for uplifting him. “At first, I didn’t believe this was real. Even as I got here, I still had doubts, until the car keys were handed over to me. Now, I am a living testimony,” the policeman declared.
Another car winner, Vincent Osa, who works with an oil services company in Port Harcourt said: Glo has made me a car owner. I did not expect to be a car winner at this time, not to talk of a brand new car. Today, I testify that Globacom is real.”

Speaking at the presentation, the chairman of Emoha Local Government Area, Emeka Woke, expressed delight at being part of what he described as “a history making event.” He said, “Glo is empowering Nigerians in a very commendable way. It has brought a revolution in the telecommunication sector. Kudos to you.”
Chief Nweke Anucha, Chairman of Omuma Local Government Area, who was also a guest at the ceremony stated that Glo was continuously bringing telecoms services closer to people. “The network has helped us in developing our area. People now communicate with ease. I congratulate you on the transparency of the promotion,” he added.

Globacom’s Regional Manager for Port Harcourt, Sam Edohor, had in his welcome remarks acknowledged the support of the people of the region.
“We appreciate the goodwill and tremendous support we have enjoyed from Nigerians these past three years. The Glo Jumbo promo is one way of thanking our subscribers for their patronage,” Edohor said, adding that Globacom’s commitment to providing world class telecommunication services and improving the quality of life of Nigerians remained unwavering

Source- http://www.vanguardngr.com

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