The recent business contract between Nigeria’s leading telecommunications firm, Globacom, and French satellite giant, Eutelsat, will open up rural communities to the possibilities of broadband internet.
Globacom said this yesterday in a statement announcing the telecommunication pact between the two firms.
The Nigerian telecommunication company said the project would be beneficial to communities with little or no internet connectivity as “it would offer VSAT/satellite-based internet service and satellite-based community wifi internet service in far flung and un-served areas where access to internet services are currently a challenge”.
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It explained that the deal was in furtherance of Federal Government’s desire to extend broadband internet outside cities “and give millions of Nigerians access to communicate and transact business with the communal internet access by Globacom”.
When the project is fully executed, Globacom said, its subscribers in urban centres would also be able to reach their friends and families, as well as transact business on the internet in such areas.
Such subscribers, it said, would also be able to carry out electronic transactions and payments to workers or companies in remote areas, using the Glo-powered Eutelsat Konnect Satellite platform.