NITEL is back, set to deploy 4G network
NITEL IS BACK WITH A BANG Natcom Development and Investment Ltd (Ntel), on Thursday, said it would deploy 4 Generation (4G) network to show its relevance in the Nigerian telecommunications market. The Managing Director of Ntel, Mr Kamar Abass, said this in Lagos during a media luncheon organised by the company. Ntel is the company that acquired the assets and liabilities of defunct NITEL and MTEL. Abass said the company would now be known as Nigeria Telecommunications (NTel) and would offer high speed data, high-definition voice and video to customers. He added that there were still spaces in the marketplace for new SIMs; hence, NTel as a new entrant had many opportunities. According to him, the company will be doing video over data and ensure Nigerians get high quality broadband, rather than cheap broadband. “Nigeria is in extreme ‘data hunger’, with just 92.7 million active Internet users as at June 2015, but the surprising issue is that only 27.6 million of the users acce...