Telecommunications services provider, Globacom Nigeria on Tuesday signed a major contract that will signal a massive shift in telecoms services delivery in the country.
TheNewsGuru reports that the Nigerian foremost multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Lagos signed the telecoms-disruptive contract with Huawei.
The event witnessed the signing of the memorandum of understanding for GLO2 Submarine Cable between Globacom Limited and Huawei Technologies.
This is coming after Huawei partnered Globacom to successfully complete upgrade of GLO1 terrestrial network in Nigeria and UK.
GLO1, fully owned by Globacom, has been in operation for 8 years and it is the only cable in Nigeria managed end-to-end from Lagos to London by one company.
“GLO2 is a quantum leap in building the voice and data communication infrastructure in Nigeria,” Sanjib Roy, Globacom Regional Director, Technical said at the contract-signing ceremony.
“We have best in-house competences to build new submarine cable: GLO2,” he added.
GLO2, which will connect Lagos to the oil producing communities of the Niger Delta region, Li Shaowei, Representative for Huawei Technologies said will “modernize and digitize” the technology landscape of the country.
Speaking at the contract-signing ceremony, Globacom’s Representative, Mr. Folu Aderibigbe said the new cable will usher in a new era in optic fibre marine cable that stretches from Lagos to South-South of Nigeria.
When completed, GLO2, which will provide data connectivity speed of up to 12TB, is designed for further expansion southwards to Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, and other African countries.
Present at the signing ceremony are Mrs. Gladys Talabi, Globacom Executive Director, Legal and Peng Shengwen, Huawei Technologies Representative.