Dear Colleagues, It appears that the cartel is starting to fall apart. This could be excellent news for the spread of ICT and Telecommunications throughout Africa.
Let's hope. Respectfully, Ken DiPietro New-ISP NextGenCommunications *************************************** NITELNET, the Internet arm of the National Carrier has concluded plans to launch its wholesale internet service next week. Nitelnet wholesale internet service would sell bandwidth on wholesale basis to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Private Telecom Operators (PTOs) and Application Service providers at discounted rates designed for volume customers. But even before it launches the service, NITEL has clinched a deal with a consortium of bandwidth users led by Kemson Concepts Limited. KemsSAT-3 Wholesale Internet Services is a set of Internet connectivity services that will enable Internet Service Providers (ISP's), Application Service Providers (ASP's) and IP Carriers working with Kemson to have access to NITEL's SAT-3 IP carriage capacity throughout Nigeria to provide broadband internet service to Providers, Resellers and User members of the community. The special advantage for the members of the consortium is that they would benefit from special volume discounts that NITEL gives to volume buyers even though their individual monthly consumption could be small. Describing how it would work, Benjamin Aduli MD/CEO of Kemson Concept says that the consortium would aggregate the purchase of Bandwidth from Nitel SAT-3 and get the Bandwidth at a cheaper cost to each individual member of the consortium. That way, if 4 members of the consortium consume 4MB in month one, the cost per MB for each member will be $5,688.00. However if by month two 10 members of the consortium consumes 16 MB, the cost per MB for each member will be $4,345.00 thereby saving each member the sum of $1,343.00 per MB consumed. As the consortium membership grows, so the volume of consumption and the higher the savings made for each member. Foundation members of the KemSat3 consortium include Chams Limited, National eGovernment Strategies (NeGST) Ltd, VGC Communication Limited, XS Broadband, PAC Solicitors and Vital Telecoms Limited. Messrs VGC Communications and XS Broadband are expected to provide the last mile service, which guarantees connection from the Nitel IP Gateway in Lagos to members of the consortium. VGC will provide DSL data costumer premises equipment that will be connected via copper to VGCCL data network switches to Kemson Gateways in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt and then connected via the SAT-3 cable to the worldwide Internet. XS Broadband would however use a Wireless Access Solution of 3.5 GH to deliver to the consortium members. Nitel IP Gateway is connected via the SAT-3 cable to the worldwide internet and gives connectivity to the Lagos Internet Exchange that will be established in the nearest future. For this service a dedicated connection to the Internet is delivered at the Nitel IP gateway located at Necom House in Lagos. The wholesale service customer can be connected either at the Nitel IP Gateway or at the customer's location by using an additional Leased Line service from Nitel. NITEL Wholesale Internet Service is sure to have a strong competition from Globacom which said last week that it would soon complete work on its undersea cable to the UK and the laying of optic fibre cable across different parts of the country including Lagos. It is expected that Globacom would come up with pricing which would put the bandwidth market on edge. Globacom says it would deliver bandwidth to the doorsteps of its customers in different parts of the country. The article can be found here: <http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/technology/ tec512042005.html> ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
