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Excellence in Service delivery key to SMEs survival—Opeke

Small and Medium Scale Enterprises operating in Nigeria need to pay greater attention to business intelligence in their quest to survive and deliver impactful products and services in the country, Ms. Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer of MainOne has said….

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ICT

FG unveils committee for new 5-year National Broadband Plan

Just as industry watchers have decried the delay of the Federal Government in coming up with new National Broadband Plan (NBP) following the expiration of former one since 2018, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami, while…

NCC Leadership Summit
ICT

NCC plans 1st Emerging Telecoms Tech Research & ICT forum @ Unilag

Barely two weeks after the successful maiden edition of Nigerian Telecom Leadership Summit 2019 in Lagos, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is coming back to the city for its maiden edition of the Emerging Telecoms Technologies Research and ICT Innovation…

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ICT

MainOne hails year 2018 business year, plans big for next year

The management of leading Cable Company and telecoms Infrastructure Company (Infraco) in Nigeria, MainOne Group, has described its business activities in the ending year 2018 as eventful, revealing that “New milestones including expansion to Francophone West Africa via submarine cable…

Opeke Mainone
ICT

Orange deepens business on W’African Coast, invests in MainOne submarine Cable

Orange and Nigerian leading indigenous investor in submarine cable and associated services, MainOne Cable Company weekend announced new strategic deal that will allow for a major investment by Orange in the West Africa submarine cable system currently dominated by MainOne….

Funke Okpeke, Mainone boss
ICT

MainOne’s secures operational licence in Cote D’Ivoire to grow W’Africa expansion

As part of its West Africa expansion, connectivity and data centre solutions operator MainOne has secured a license to expand national and international connectivity services in Cote D’Ivoire. The C1B license, received from Minister Bruno Koné, the country’s Minister for…

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ICT

Ajayi, Opeke list merits of in-country hosting of website

Two leading players in the nation’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the Chief Executive Officer, Pinet Technology, Mr. Lanre Ajayi, and the Chief Executive Officer, MainOne Cable, Funke Opeke have opened up on the advantages of hosting websites in Nigeria….

Funke Okpeke, Mainone boss
ICT

MainOne, Tizeti team up with Facebook to boost connectivity in Lagos

MainOne and Tizeti on Monday, announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of internet services in Lagos. The new partnership is structured to leverage MainOne’s fiber connectivity, Tizeti’s twenty brand-new solar-powered towers, and…

Opeke Mainone
ICT

Costly connectivity, power supply key problems of data business—MDXi

The Product Manager at MDXi Data Centre, Vremudia Oghene-Ruemu, has listed the major challenges frustrating data centre business in Nigeria. In his presentation as a panelist at the just concluded Capacity Africa Conference which held in Kampala, Uganda, he explained…

ICT

MainOne using Open-Connect Service to become largest internet hub in W’Africa

The partnership of MainOne’s Data Center company, MDXi, with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, (IXPN) to improve national transit traffic in Nigeria has encouraged it to announce a new interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and ISPs called Open-Connect. Open-Connect is a…