Globacom Nigeria’s indigenous telecom operator has finally launched it much awaited submarine cable. The cable runs through the coast of West Africa all the way to Europe, connecting Africa to the rest of the world.

The service is expected to drastically reduce cost of internet connection and other telecommunication services.

Some examples include:

• Teleconferencing
• Distance learning
• Disaster recovery
• Telemedicine
• Internet connection

The COO, Mohamed Jameel said : “For GSM, CDMA, Wimax operators and ISPs, Glo 1 offers extremely attractive prices on both short and long term basis, resulting in enhanced profitability for the customer through flexible terms of contracts tailor-made for the customer type and requirement,”

This implies that, even MTN and other telecom operators can buy bandwidth from GLO to cater for their customers’ needs.

Main One recently arrived, now its GLO 1, we expect all these to disrupt the market and help increase competition there reducing the prices.