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| *Biodun Omoniyi |
Bitflux
Communications, the Nigerian consortium which secured a national 2.3GHz
spectrum licence in February 2014, has launched commercial wholesale LTE services
in partnership with Alepo, according to a report by telegeography.com.
Alepo
is a leading provider of IT and network infrastructure software solutions for
communications service providers worldwide.
“At
Bitflux, our vision is to enhance customer experience through continuous
innovation, and the launch of the wholesale LTE network is a step
towards realising this vision,” commented Bitflux’s director Biodun Omoniyi.
“With
Alepo as our technology partner, we are able to offer a range of wireless
services that are in tune with the demands of our customers, and that will
enable us to remain a market leader in this domain,” Omoniyi added.
With
Alepo’s core LTE solution and built-in affiliate management, Bitflux
is able to operate as a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE), supporting
multiple MVNO operations on a single
hosted platform.
A
consortium of VDT Communications, BitCom Systems and Superflux
International, Bitflux emerged as the winner of the Nigerian Communications
Commission’s (NCC’s) ‘Wholesale Wireless Access Service Licence’ auction in
February 2014 with a bid of USD23.251 million, beating Globacom’s offer of
USD23.050 million.
The
30MHz block of 2.3GHz spectrum will be used to provide wholesale wireless
broadband access services to ISPs and other retail telecoms service providers,
which in turn will offer retail Internet services to consumers.
In
October 2015 Bitflux revealed that its 4G LTE network was ready in ‘a
controlled area in Lagos’, with services said to be live in some parts of the
city.
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