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Despite the presence of several submarine cables carrying about 9 terabytes of bandwidth in Nigeria, broadband deployment in the country, especially in the rural areas is failing to keep pace with today’s advanced, high-quality voice, data, graphics and video offerings. This, some industry watchers and analysts have blamed on the lack of lastmile connectivity infrastructures

The incoming Nigerian president should revise the country’s broadband penetration targets to more realistic levels, make public subsidy available, and consider a range of alternative technologies to improve the development of Nigeria’s broadband infrastructure.” Earlier this year, Muhammadu Buhari became the president of Nigeria, defeating incumbent Goodluck Jonathan in the national elections. In 2013, the

The only major road through Lekki is clogged, even on a Saturday afternoon. The expressway through the swampy peninsula that expands the city of Lagos in an easterly direction is riddled with street hawkers peddling red grapes, shoe racks and phone chargers to the cars caught in the hold up.   “Selling imported fruit and Chinese rubbish.

  Around 3.2 billion people have access to the Internet. That’s amazing, but it’s fewer than half of the 7 billion or so people on earth. And while Internet access was once a luxury, it is quickly becoming essential as the world’s commerce, educational resources, and entertainment move online. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of schemes

While the internet continues to play a major role in our everyday lives, particularly in the areas of banking, commerce and media, it’s easy to forget that the billions of data being processed everyday are not stored “somewhere in the clouds”, but in actual, physical Data Centres all over the world. One of such is

Keeping customer data secure is of utmost importance in any organization. Therefore, compliance with security standards is vital. In today’s world, a company cannot afford to experience breaches of customer information, transactional data or other important business information given the volume of business taking place online and the consequences of such breaches. When considering collocation

Chief Executive Officer of MainOne Technologies, Ms. Funke Opeke said that with the current 6.8 to 10 percent broadband penetration in Nigeria, the economy still remains a huge market for cloud computing. This was her summation to the chances of cloud computing service providers in playing in the Nigerian IC T market. Her statement was