Zinox Technologies, Nigeria’s foremost Integrated ICT solutions company has entered into a strategic agreement with NigComSat, operators of Nigeria’s communications satellite for a massive bandwidth purchase to enhance the capacity of Zinox to take connectivity to nooks and crannies of Nigeria.
The partnership promises to be one of the biggest purchase deals for NigComSat since its launch in 2011.
Under the partnership, the bandwidth purchased will help Zinox to provide affordable broadband internet connectivity to structured organizations, the underserved and unserved parts of Nigeria through the use of satellite and fibre technologies.
This consolidates the position of Zinox as the prime mover of digital knowledge democracy – the use of electronic platforms to increase knowledge and wealth based capacities, and also job creation within the context of the local content policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Speaking to some ICT correspondents on the partnership, Ms. Kelechi Eze , general manager of Zinox, said that the partnership with NigComSat, is viable because Zinox had made huge investments in the installation of a state of the art iDirect Evolution Satellite Hub.
Which technology, she explained, enables Zinox to continuously provide better triple solution VOIP, DATA, VIDEO, and INTERNET access experience throughout Nigeria and West Africa.
“Our technology Platform guarantees redundancy Internet access through VSAT and Fiber infrastructure using MPLS technology” she added.
Mrs Abimbola Alale, executive director, Marketing of NigComSat, signed on behalf of their MD said that Partnering with a world class Nigeria companies like Zinox Technologies is what the Country needs in practical Broadband deployment.
Both Companies she said have huge capacities to meet the needs of Nigerians.
Mr. Leo-Stan Ekeh, chairman of the Zinox Group, said that the decision to work with NigComSat in spite of the pressure from multinational communications satellite companies was deliberate and in line with the inward looking policy of the Zinox Group.
“We need to recognize our own and uphold the local content policy by patronizing our own satellite” Ekeh added.
According to him, Nigeria will be a better place if we build local capacity that can compete favorably with their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
Ekeh explained that “the world is not waiting for us. So if we must meet up, we must run as fast as our legs can take us. And the time is now. I have said it elsewhere, empowerment of the people to join the knowledge economy has to be a deliberate policy by government and we must encourage the government in our own small way”.