Good news, Nitel is back to take over the telecom industry with it’s new 4G data service but this time the telco will be known as Nigerian Telecommunication (NTEL). NTEL is said focus on Data services since it’s become a norm that customers consume more data than they make calls.
However, NATCOM Consortium, the winner of the bid for the moribund Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, is planning to roll out services next month.
The consortium will launch 4G Long Term Evolution Technology (LTE) services suggesting that the revamped NITEL may focus on data services from the outset. Come next month being November, 4G data services will be launched in Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt before rolling out to other states.
I guess the return of NITEL will make other Telecom industry sit up and hopefully reduce the cost of data services being provided. NITEL had broadband facilities that traversed the entire country and that once revived, it would boost transmission of broadband capacities from the shores of Nigeria to places in the hinterlands, where the demand is high.
