Alcatel forges deal with Nigeria's Globacom
Alcatel SA and Nigeria's second national telecommunications operator Globacom Ltd. have forged a US$10 billion deal to roll out 1 million GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) lines in more than 32 cities in the west African nation.
The deal involves adding 100,000 fixed wireless local loops, three international gateways, a fiber optics backbone ring and transmission equipment across the country. The GSM lines are expected to be in place in the first two weeks of January.
The aim is to provide affordable telecommunications, as well as high-speed broadband with digital voice and data transmission, Globacom said. The deal is expected to allow less expensive Internet access in Nigerian cities.
Globacom has said it is committed to providing 1.9 million cellular telephone lines within five years and 1.4 million fixed lines.
Alcatel and Globacom executives signed the deal recently in Paris, where Alcatel is based.
» posted by abennett
IDG News Service
Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery. Download this whitepaper to find out the top reasons to upgrade and how to get continuous data protection and complete system recovery.
Data and system loss — from a hard drive failure, malicious attack, natural disaster, or simple human error — can happen anytime. Don’t leave your business vulnerable. Make sure you have a secure recovery strategy in place. Symantec's latest backup and system recovery technology can efficiently restore critical applications, individual emails and documents and even restore your entire system in minutes in the event of a loss.
Businesses face a growing challenge to ensure that the IT environment is properly protected. Backup Exec 12 integrates with other applications in the Symantec family of products, to complement your current data protection strategy, keep your data securely backed up and make it recoverable when you need it most.
Enterprise 2.0 Implementation
By Aaron C. Newman, Jeremy Thomas
Published by McGraw-Hill
Learn more!
Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services
By Zach Seils, Joel Christner
Published by Cisco Press
Learn more!
