Telecommunication Technology: Issues and Trends In West Africa

Mobile network backhaul infrastructure plays a key role in the delivery of services to end users and is likely to be an important spend area for network operators during the medium and long terms. Operators will be upgrading backhaul to match the capacity of core and access networks. ­Infrastructure sharing will increasingly be used by operators to reduce capital expenditure (CAPEX) and operating expenditure (OPEX) on backhauls. These trends will create growth opportunities in the Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest mobile network backhaul infrastructure market. Escalating demand for data services is driving the need for upgrading mobile network backhaul infrastructure. Operators need to share costs and invest in network technologies that support transmission of large quantities of data such as optical fiber and its associated technologies. Landing of undersea cables like MAIN 1 and GLO 1 and the deployment of enhanced 3G (3G+) and 4G technologies will amplify the increasing demand for dat...

This question has been on my mind for a while and I have taken a review of my earlier article on this subject yet again as we approach the election date in Nigeria. I have been pondering on this universal phenomenon. I have wondered how it applies to an individual and to a nation as a whole. It is my candid opinion that this mathematical identity is true in all cases namely: Change (C) =F(space, time , attitude). By way of explanation to my non maths readers, this equation says that for change to happen, three variables must be at play. They are space, time, and attitude. This is a function which has a unique solution since we know that change itself must come. It appears to me that the tensor which guarantees the existence of this change in a given space-time metric (i.e. a space time-metric is a scientific way of measuring a particular space within some time frame) is a universal one and evenly distributed. This function applies to the individual as well as to a nation, though a lot ...