rickie4us:

plz, which one is Main One cable?

A company seeking to bring broadband services to 9ja. Fola Adeola [GTB] has his fingers in this pie.

that i'm impressed is an understatement, i think it's more like i'm astounded! these are the fine points of capitalism-and i hope it will be taken with caution to avoid the downside too-. mikey, keep it up. up glo!

The truth is that corporate clients will be the main customers cos its not the 10k u want to pay that glo is looking for really,but they all add up to the total on the long run.

Nobody should expect glo to start laying cables round ppls home cos they want to be the best,but atleast you should be expecting that via their wireless 3G modems, u will get incredible speeds,but the truth need to be told that Nigerian factor always is a problem with anything good in Nigeria especially POWER and GOVT.

No matter the retail price at the end of the day, this is good news for Nigeria.
As an online news and information publisher, I know that GLO-1 is going to propel our development in the mass media.

If NITEL fails, GLO-1 will save the day for us.

Sometimes 1 broken monopoly only leads to the growth of a bigger 1. . .
Last time i checked, GLO wasn't a charity organization. . . . Good as the whole development sounds for certain aspects of our economy but of what benefit is it if it isn't in the reach of the average nigerian

I don't understand all this apprehension about it benefiting the masses, what stops your ISP from hooking up to it to improve their capacity?

The Major challenge we face with Internet connections in Nigeria is the "last mile connectivity"

i.e how to get the link to the end customer satisfactorily and consistently

zoraro:

I don't understand all this apprehension about it benefiting the masses, what stops your ISP from hooking up to it to improve there capacity?

What stops GLO from keeping the prices down to the reach of SMEs

@ ruddie: MONEY

tunde300us:

@ ruddie: MONEY

They will recoup their investment in the long run. The lower their prices are the more customers they will have and the sooner they recoup their money back. Beside, they are competing with SAT-3 now.

RuuDie:

What stops GLO from keeping the prices down to the reach of SMEs

Nothing is stoppling them. But, they have not disclosed their pricing scheme, I think. They should give serious consideration to home users too.

That's good news, the bottom line is - all homes have to be connected. That's when one will see the many benefits of fibre. Don't rely on wireless, make provision for wired networks

this is just a tip of the isberg as another fibre is about to be laid connecting nigeria to europe through the desert. the west african and many other regional govt are also planning to inter wire themselves through the fibre. this could be linked with other gateways and , increases the bandwidth available.

Well, Some Good News. Maybe their internet services would get better?

Adenuga, pls construct a rail system from Lagos to London, I'll appreciate that more, mo fe ja

It is definitely good news, a lot better than when i first heard GLO was going into commercial Internet via their USB modems.
But i have had a horrendous experience since then, I lost a lot of money through spurious charges, inefficient billing and abysmal customer support, Yet their infrastructure ranks the best among all telcos in Nigeria (first grade only)

Yet as some have mentioned, there is that 'Nigeria' element. it seems stupid to fall to such an analogy, but in the end GLO has done much for Nigeria but they definitely leave a sour after-taste in your mouth. let us hope the pedigree of Funke Okpeke (MainOneCable) will act as a balance to GLO's incompetence in the end-user side of his business.

hmmm

Nice one there.@ least we will have choice to make and i know that some one who has invested so much will not settle for poor quality of service.some ppl will leave SAT 3 for GLO 1, creating enof bandwidth for those that will be on SAT 3 and more bandwidth for those on GLO 1

This about changes everything. Nice one glo!

guys,
not too worry, u'll get ur ADSL with good bandwidth n also wimax for areas not capable of ADSL right now.
Am sure of lasgidi on that

though it sounds like a great feat,but trouble is looming.Nigeria has always strenghtened the weak 2 weaken the
strong.They hv crumbled nitel n d gladiators are now fortifying glo.Just know that technology,nobody does it alone so we need other players.Also after the deployment the nigerian terrestial divide need to be networked 4 full performance.

i dont understand what u are saying

What i am saying is that glo has now become a trail blaizer but at the same time, we need other transatlantic cabling.

i am eagerly waiting for this Glo cable sef

yea it has,and now the issue of 21st global village has just arrived

job well donr from glo, BUT is glo going to take over from PHCN/NEPA?

Phase 3 Telecoms and Dangote's Alheri Engineering to roll out fibre optic cable across the country.

More in the link:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200901210237.html

This should help regular end users as far taking advantage of the glo-1 and main one cable is concerned.