—-Offers Free Life ‘On-Net’ calls to 100,000 Pioneers

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE) – Nigeria’s first advanced 4G/LTE network, ntel on Friday went live in Abuja and Lagos with bumper offers to its first 100,000 pioneer call and data subscribers, according to Kamar Abbass, chief executive officer (CEO) of the company in Lagos Nigeria.

“ntel unveils pioneers club, the first 100,000 subscribers to redeem and activate their ntel SIMs will get free on-net calls, while date subscribers will get three (3) months unlimited data usage,” Abass said at a media briefing to herald the launch of the network.

According to the ntel CEO, the very earliest customers of ntel will be able to buy and use these services in clusters across Lagos and Abuja from sales outlets and agents featuring its brand new name ‘ntel’.

“Today, we are the benchmark for speed and this is an opportunity for subscribers to experience unlimited data for three (3) months,” the CEO of ntel added.

Abbass says the 4G is an evolution into the 5G and 6G with high-speed internet access of up to 230 megabits per second (mpbs) built on the 900/1800MHZ spectrum. “The bundles of unlimited offer from ntel is not only about generating income for the company; but pulling in investments and growing people’s spending power,” he affirmed.

He further affirmed that Nigerian is the eight (8) biggest telecoms market in the whole world and has contributed six (6) percent of Nigeria’s growth. “In mobile broadband internet activity, Nigeria has two (2) percent monthly penetration and 90 percent of what’s going on in the internet,” Abbass noted.

The fifth mobile network operator said with the formal commencement, services will be made available on ntels 4G/LTE Advanced network across key site clusters in Lagos and Abuja, while coverage in Port Harcourt will follow in May, alongside expended coverage in Lagos and Abuja, and subsequently to other States across the geo-political zones in Nigeria during the second half of 2016.

Abass a strong advocate of 4G/LTE said at ntel,  they are passionate about the power of Broadband to boost productivity and thereby transform lives and help accelerate the ongoing migration from the existing 2G and 3G services to genuinely high-speed  Mobile Broadband on 4G/LTE-Advanced.

The fifth mobile network operator in Nigeria on March 8, 2016 announced an exciting pre-launch opportunity to early pre-subscribers setting to enter the market.

ntel says the first batch of subscribers of up to 250,000 to reserve their numbers on the network and subsequently SIM-activate after launch, will be recognised as Pioneers on Nigeria’s newest mobile network marking them out as among the first to reap the company’s promise of abundant broadband on it’s pure-play advanced 4G/LTE network.

The company said opportunity for number reservation and activation is opened till the end of April 2016.

ntel which made its first Voice over LTE call in Lagos on Thursday, February 25, 2016, is positioned to lead the way as Nigeria’s most Advanced 4G/LTE network at a critical moment of transition.

“We expect to see more than 50 million 4G/LTE subscribers in Nigeria by 2020 and ntel is delighted to be leading this transformation towards that critical mass of customers,” Abass CEO of ntel affirmed.

ntel last Tuesday said it’s seeking more than $1 billion to invest in 4G Mobile Broadband by 2020 in order to take advantage of a rising number of smartphone users in Nigeria were most subscribers are restricted to 2G voice and text messaging due to the low penetration of smartphones.

“We are speaking to investors and to banks who are interested in a growth story for Africa and we are seeing the very beginnings of a shift from a voice-oriented communications market in Nigeria to one that will be dominated by mobile broadband.”