Nitel Pilots Broadband Services

March 2006 | Company Finance Alert

Nigeria's state-owned incumbent operator Nitel has launched a pilot project for its wholesale ADSL service in the city of Abuja. The operator aims to sell bandwidth on its broadband network to the country's internet service providers (ISP), which will be sold on to corporate users. The popularity in broadband services is likely to be limited due to the lack of infrastructure and low GDP per capita in the country, currently at around US$570. Moreover, although the country has some 36 ISPs, the majority have just a handful of subscribers each, which leads BMI to expect that the number of broadband

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