GLO CONNECTS LEKKI ESTATE (NICON TOWN) TO ITS NETWORK

National carrier, Globacom, is continuing the connection of residential estates in Lagos and other cities to its fixed line network, riding on the Glo Broadaccess infrastructure. This is coming just as industry watchers are lamenting the preponderance of mobile lines over fixed lines in the country, given that fixed lines offer cheaper and more reliable voice and data services to the subscriber.

As part of this roll out drive, the company has successfully connected the NICON Town, one of the newest residential estates along the Lekki – Epe expressway in Lagos. According to Head of Glo Broadaccess, Karuna Menon, Globacom is delivering high quality voice service, data transmission, high speed internet services and video streaming to the 433 plots in the residential estate. 

Menon explained that Globacom’s fibre optic cable, laid earlier along the Lekki – Epe corridor, makes it easier for the estate to seamlessly connect to Glo’s fibre optic infrastructure. From the fibre optic on the express, the infrastructure is stepped down in a central hub in the estate and redistributed to individual houses to connect to end users.

The Globacom network installation has the capacity for 1,568 connections, even though the estate currently has about 433 houses. The estate residents have the privilege of choosing whatever bandwidth bundle they desire, based   on  their internet usage requirements, and this is made available by wireless multiple cable points.

Apart from the NICON Estate, several high-end customers have already been connected to the Glo Broadaccess network and are already enjoying the services.