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  • Glo Green December brings rewarding smartphone deals to customers

    Glo Green December brings rewarding smartphone deals to customers

    Telecommunications solutions provider Globacom is celebrating the Yuletide season with its consumers as it announced incredible bargains on smartphones, airtime, and data.

    This follows its partnership with highly regarded device manufacturers. Additionally, it is also giving away data and airtime along with the available gadgets.

    Tagged Green December, the offer allows customers to freely choose the hand-held devices they want at the most affordable costs. The company further stated that payments for the devices may also be spread out in accordance with Globacom’s terms and conditions.

    There are discounts on the available Samsung devices including Samsung S23 FE 128+8 which has discounted from N636,000 to N599,000; Samsung S23 FE 256+8 from N692,000 to N649,000.

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     Equally, Samsung A24 128+4 has been reduced from N266,200 to N225,000, while Samsung A24 128+6 has been discounted from N283,300 to N250,000 and Samsung A04e 32+3 from N95,000 to N90,000.

    Samsung A04e 64+3 now goes for N100,000 from N105,000; Samsung A34 126+6 is  N350,000 instead of N388,000; Samsung A54 128+8 from N493,000 to N450,000 and Samsung A54 256+8 from N529,000 to N480,000.

    Similarly, customers will enjoy up to 18GB data bonus for six months on each of their preferred devices. These price reductions are only applicable when customers make their purchases from Gloworld outlets across the country.

    Consumers can also purchase the original iTel A70 and other devices from the Gloworld shops, where they can also learn more about financing options for the devices and after-sale service.

  • Glo is ‘Outstanding Telecom Brand of the Year’

    Glo is ‘Outstanding Telecom Brand of the Year’

    Globacom has garnered two awards at the Brands and Advertising Awards organised by Marketing Edge.

    Glo received “Outstanding Telecoms Brand of the Year” and the “TV Commercial of the Year” awards at a ceremony held in Lekki, Lagos.

    The event also coincided with the 20th anniversary of Marketing Edge and the awards were in recognition of Globacom’s contributions to the telecom sector.

    Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Marketing Edge Limited, Mr John Ajayi, noted that Globacom was deemed worthy of the award for its market leading services to Nigeria in the sector.

    The telecom giant has, in its 20 years of operations, been focused on offering value to customers across the country.

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    The award for the TV Commercial of the Year for its commercial, which projected the power of individuals to attain any goal with the tool of data at their disposal, was also awarded to the company.

    Aside the winning advert, Globacom has carved a niche for itself owing to its creative advertising contents.

    Doyen of the advertising, Mr Steve Omojafor, noted that Marketing Edge is the only marketing communications publication with high repute beyond the shores of Nigeria.

    Globacom also recently received honours at the second yearly Consumer Value Awards.

    The awards, which were decided by online votes by  the public, saw Globacom winning the “Best Value for Money Data & ISP Brand of the Year 2023” and “Best Value for Money Telecommunication Service of the Year 2023” awards.

  • Glo marks 20 years

    Glo marks 20 years

    Globacom has extended its heartfelt gratitude to Nigerians for their unalloyed support for the past two decades that the company rolled out services.

    Globacom commenced operations on Tuesday, August 29, 2003. The company stated that it has consistently brought innovation, quality service delivery and affordable telecommunication services to its subscribers since then.

    “It has been two decades of transforming the telecommunications landscape, fulfilling dreams, and positively affecting the lives of millions of Nigerians. We thank the government, our subscribers, business partners and other stakeholders for their faith in the company,” Globacom stated in a press statement yesterday in Lagos. 

    Glo noted that it has been at the forefront of revolutionary changes in the telecommunication sector in Nigeria. It crashed the cost of acquiring SIM cards in the country from about N25,000 to just about N200. The network also disappointed bookmakers as it launched operations on a Per Second Billing platform, a feat others had described as impossible to achieve until another five years.

    Prominent among the innovations Glo pioneered in Nigeria are Blackberry, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Magic Plus, Glo Direct, Glo Fonepals, Africhat, Glo Mobile Internet, GloFleetmanager, M-Banking and Glo Mobile Office. Glo was also the first to launch 2.5G, 3G and 4G LTE networks.

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     It also singlehandedly built an international submarine cable, Glo 1 to connect West Africa directly to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. It also connects 12 nations in the West African sub region, including some of them that are landlocked.

    Glo1 is credited with crashing the cost of internet services and is today the preferred cable system by global OTT providers. It connects thousands of kilometres of national fibre to all parts of Nigeria.

    According to Globacom, “As we celebrate our achievements these past twenty years, we wish to acknowledge that Globacom’s huge success is a result of the support of millions of Nigerians. We wish to thank them for their love and patronage and for the unprecedented confidence they have consistently shown in the company”.

    Restating its commitment to the corporate promise it made at launch, the company said “We will remain a catalyst for socio-economic empowerment not only in Nigeria but also in Africa. We will also continue to invest massively in new technologies to exceed customer expectations”.

  • Glo urges female students on ICT careers

    National carrier, Globacom, has urged female students across the country to embrace science subjects in order to fit into careers that are related to Information Communications Technology (ICT) in future.

    Its Account Manager, Public Sector, Lagos Zone, Mrs. Justina Abdulateef, who spoke at the 2019 International Girls in ICT Day organised by eBusinessLife Magazine, said the ICT space requires a broad range of skills which operators are continually looking for to hire.

    Abdulateef encouraged female students from 15 prominent schools in Lagos to diligently prepare themselves for studies in mathematics, engineering, computing and other such fields.

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    Though she noted that stereotypes and discrimination had discouraged many girls from pursuing interests in ICT, she stresed the  need to break the stereotypes early in life to propel females towards developing interest in the ICT sector.

    “Increasingly, more women across the world were proving their mettle in the male-dominated, technical professions. Examples abound  of women who have distinguished themselves in engineering, medicine and other related professions. As girl students, you must therefore, never let anyone limit your possibilities. If you set your mind to it, there is nothing you cannot achieve as a girl.”

    She said research  had shown that there was a nexus between ICT and economic growth of a country, culminating in enhanced emphasis  on ICT by policy-makers  with a view to ensuring that the sector flourishes in future.

  • Glo hails Special Olympians

    Some of the Special Olympians sponsored by National Telecommunications Company, Globacom to 2019 Special Olympics Summer games in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, were formally received at the Mike Adenuga Towers, headquarters of Globacom, in Victoria Island, Lagos on Friday.

    The three athletes sponsored by the telecom giant were Chima Maduakor, Tejumola Ogunlela and Oyinkansola Givens Joseph. They made the nation proud by winning medals during the games.

    Chima Maduakor, despite being deaf and dumb, won an Olympic gold medal in the Shot-put event, Oyinkansola Givens Joseph won one silver and one bronze medal in badminton events, while Tejumola Ogunlela won two bronze medals in swimming events.

    Speaking at the event, State Head, SME, Lagos Zone, Globacom, Marie Macfoy, who congratulated the Olympians on their successful outing at the games, stated that Globacom is very proud of the athletes.

    “Their exploits at the tournament were achieved by the team’s winning attitude and hard work, determination and an irrepressible personal belief that all things are possible, even in the face of severe challenges”, she said.

    “Globacom is not new to Special Olympics sponsorship.  In 2011, we sponsored the Nigerian contingent to the Special Olympics held in Athens and the contingent returned with 27 medals,” she explained.

    Macfoy stated that the company’s sponsorship of the athletes is backed by its belief in the objectives of the Games which included ‘improving the lives of special children, helping them to reach their full potentials and creating greater social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities’.

    She also reiterated Globacom’s commitment to sports development in the country.

    “I wish to assure you all that Globacom will continue to reward hard work and excellence in sports, whilst helping our youths to realise their potentials,” she concluded.

    In his remarks, Manager, Sports Programmes, Special Olympics Nigeria, Adeola Oladugba commended Globacom for providing the opportunity for the athletes to showcase their talents at the global level.

    According to him “If not for Globacom’s support, the three athletes might not have been able to go on to the world stage. Globacom has done extremely well”.

  • How Glo celebrates customers through TV Commercials

    The launch of Glo into the Nigerian telecom market 15years ago was not just a happenstance. Rather, it was an epochal brand initiative which involved a forensic research about what the average Nigerian phone users wanted. Way back in the years, the two major competitors in the telecom sector had a uniform billing system that gave no care nor concern for the economic wellbeing of their impoverished subscribers. Having done its homework very well before the launch, and also poised to give the best value for money, so that its customers can come in large numbers and remain with the network, the Glo brand introduced per-second billing platform.

    With this, it rolled out world class services covering thousands of cities, towns and villages just within a few months of operations. This opened up the telecom category to every citizen irrespective of ethnic nationality, creed or income, enabling them to be the one with the rest of the world

    Not the one to rest on its oars, Glo launched a unique campaign on data services with the big idea of Glo Data is Oxygen TVC. It is not in doubt that the choice of oxygen is sine quan non as this is one of life’s most essential ingredient. Without it, life is impossible. Therefore, by saying Data is life, the TVC highlights the importance of Glo data to life and how it offers solutions to life’s challenges. This portrays Glo as emphatic to the needs of subscribers by providing cutting-edge solutions to whatever problems they are grappling with.

    Still operating on its tradition and culture of the big idea in its creative advertising, Glo launched the Superior Network TVC. This TVC chronicles the various milestones of the brand since inception, emphasizing the company’s unique propositions. It starts with the power of a seed morphing into 190 million connections in various cities of the world. On the whole, it emphasizes Glo’s resolve to make telephone available, affordable and accessible into a world class manner. The commercial celebrates customer empowerment as underpinning everything it does. It concluded with an undisputable claim that Glo is the superior network.

     

     

  • Why we are sponsoring  African Voices – Glo 

    Globacom, national telecommunications operator and exclusive sponsor of African Voices on CNN International, says the need to give Africa a genuine platform to tell its own story informed its decision to sponsor the programme since 2010.

    The Executive Vice Chairman of the company, Mrs Bella Disu, said this at the 10th Anniversary Cocktail held by CNN in Victoria Island, Lagos, on Thursday to celebrate a decade of uninterrupted broadcast of the programme.

    She told the audience,  which comprised Glo dealers, publishers and chief executive officers of major media organisations, popular bloggers, entertainment stars and prominent Nigerians, that CNN African Voices had, in the past ten years, brought to limelight several African legends and budding talents who are making a difference in various fields of endeavour.

    These include young entrepreneurs like Ethiopia’s Abai Schulze and legends like the late Chinua Achebe.

    “Africa has always had rich stories, cultures and innovations. We have never lacked talents, what we lacked were platforms to amplify them in a reverend and authentic manner,” she stated, adding that CNN African Voices, had “played its part by sport-lighting a continent that has a lot to offer to the world, and undoubtedly accelerating its global influence”.

    “At Globacom, we play our part by providing world class telecommunication services, and supporting platforms that promote growth and success. And to this end, I look forward to many more years of mutually beneficial partnership with CNN”, she concluded.

    Also speaking at the cocktail, Account Director, CNN International Commercial, Zara Driss, said, “we are proud to work with such a committed, long-standing sponsor of a show that shares our passion about the diverse culture of Africa. Together with Globacom, we look forward to this new era of African Voices and its  television and digital programming that will raise the profile of the continent’s change makers amongst international audience”.

    In her own remarks, the Supervising Producer of African Voices, Jenni Watts, said, “it is humbling to come to Africa to see the impact of the stories and have time to reflect,” adding that she was a huge fan of Chimanmanda Adiche who is well loved by Mrs Michelle Obama.

    Among those who attended the event were juju music maestro, King Sunny Ade, and Orente singer, Adekunle, Gold who entertained guests.

    Globacom started sponsoring  African Voices nine years ago, and has over the years contributed to changing the narrative in the world information order by allowing Africans to tell their own stories to the world without misrepresentations.

     

  • Glo attracts over 400,000 new users

    The consistent network upgrade by the digital transformational leader, Globacom, has paid off with the giant telecommunications company recording the highest number of subscribers in the industry in February 2019.

    Globacom, while responding to the new NCC release on its website, has attributed its growing subscriber base to its consistent network upgrade, leading to overall increase in quality of service.

    The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC recorded that the company gained 400,879 subscribers to top the gainers’ table for the month under review.

    It was followed by 9mobile, which gained 345,264 subscribers to take the second spot on the table, just as Airtel took the third spot on the gainers’ table by attracting only 4,559 new users in the month of February 2019.

    On its part, MTN suffered a massive loss of 1,099,480 subscribers in the month under review. With the latest NCC statistics, Globacom has narrowed the gap between it and MTN and widened its lead over Airtel and 9mobile.

     

  • Glo makes Easter memorable at Warri with Bovi Man on Fire

    It was fun for residents of Warri, Delta State, as comedian Bovi staged the Warri edition of the comedy show ‘Bovi Man on Fire’ last Thursday.

    The event which was part of Easter celebrations was sponsored by telecommunication giant, Globacom, with its High Networth Individual (HNI) customers given free tickets to watch the show.

    The show, which paraded Bovi and other comedians, including Kelvin Sapp, Young Chief Odogwu, MC Shakara and Mr. Flexy, lasted for over three hours with the audience thoroughly entertained.

    Commenting on the show, one of the Glo HNIs who got a free VIP ticket, Philip Oghenetega praised Globacom for always taking care of its subscribers.

    “Beyond the laughter and the fun, I think, we should personally acknowledge Globacom for delighting its customers and making them number one in everything,” he said.

    “I have been to shows and I can appreciate the value of the free ticket Globacom gave me to be part of this Bovi Man on Fire show, the first in Warri.”

    Managing Director of Bobsky BB Integrated Resources Mr. Bomlegaha Diyerin praised the company “for extending its hand of generosity to us by giving us free VIP tickets for a wonderful show like this. Globacom cares about its customers and we are not surprised that the company keeps waxing stronger everyday”.

    Mr. Stanley Omatseyione, a Globacom subscriber and a leading activation dealer, said: “One must give it to Globacom for having the interest of its subscribers and business partners at heart. I had planned to come for the show on my own and I was greatly relieved when Globacom sent the free ticket to me. This is very encouraging, and it gladdens one’s heart to note that a company as big as Globacom recognises one’s modest contribution to its growth.”

    Organised by Messers Brownhill Event Limited, ‘Bovi Man on Fire’ was attended by dignitaries  from Warri and environs, including Prime Minister of Warri Kingdom, High Chief Ayiri Emami, President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinick, Globacom’s number one trade partner in the Mid-West Region, Mr. Hanson Okuoimase, who doubles as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nadal Heights System Limited and his wife, Hope, among others.

  • Glo, Bovi’s Man on Fire, put Warri in Easter mood

    The 2019 Easter festival for residents of oil rich city of Warri and environs promises to be memorable as Globacom, the grandmasters of data, in conjunction with Bovi Man on Fire, is powering a comedy ensemble packaged by iconic humour merchant, Bovi Ugboma, to kickstart celebrations this Thursday.

    Globacom in a statement, said the event would be held at Brownhill Ultra Modern Hall, Warri, Delta State.

    The company, which has over the years been the greatest corporate supporter of arts and entertainment in the country with its endorsement of  entertainers as brand ambassadors, explained that it is supporting the comedy show “so that people in Warri axis and the entire Delta State can also have a feel of the fun the show is associated with”.

    “Bovi Man on Fire” has enjoyed tremendous success in Lagos over the years. When the organisers decided to hold the first edition of the show outside Lagos in Warri, we decided to support it to give our subscribers in the city a memorable Easter celebration”, the statement added.

    Apart from Bovi, other comedians billed to perform at the show include Kelvin Sapp, Young Chief and Mr. Flexy. The event promoters, Messer Brownhill Event Limited, have also contracted popular Nigerian music raves like Zlatan, Victor AD, Erigga and D’Banj to serenade the audience with world-class performances.

    Globacom said that many of its High Networth Individuals and other customers in Warri and environs who have used N10,000 and above in the last one year would be given free tickets to attend the show, adding that it also planned to use the event to unveil its enterprise product portfolio.