HOTSPOT, US FIRM TO DELIVER 2,000 TELECOMS SITES IN RURAL NIGERIA

Hotspot Network Limited, a tower collocation and infrastructure sharing service provider, has selected Parallel Wireless, a United States-based Open RAN company, to deliver 2G, 3G and 4G coverage across 2,000 villages in Nigeria for MTN.

The Founder and CEO, HotSpot Network Limited, Morenikeji Aniye, in a statement said that it planned to deliver 500 sites in the first year for he telecom operator.

The statement issued by Parallel Wireless is entitled ‘Hotspot Partners with Parallel Wireless to Deliver on Nigeria’s Connectivity Vision’.

Aniye said, “Hotspot has signed a commercial agreement with MTN to deploy more than 2,000 sites starting with 500 in year one.

“We believe that Parallel Wireless’s innovative and easy to deploy 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G world’s leading Open RAN will enable faster time to market to deliver wireless Internet to consumers and businesses.”

According to the statement, Hotspot Network Limited has formed an alliance with Digital Farmers Club, Universal Service Provision Fund and NITDA Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture connectivity initiatives to deliver connectivity to rural Nigeria.

Parallel Wireless said it would deliver improved service innovation and reduced operational costs across geographically distributed sites, with the introduction of RAN automation.

The statement said the partners had engaged some financial institutions to fund mobile phone acquisition scheme for women and farmers within the region.

The Federal Government of Nigeria had committed several times to facilitating the achievement of its national policy goals for universal service and access to information and communication technologies in Nigeria.

The Africa Sales Director, Parallel Wireless, Christoph Fitih, said, “We are proud to be a part of various such initiatives for implementing our world’s leading Open RAN platform to allow mobile operators to enable new and innovative services quickly and cost-effectively, in turn making a positive impact in the lives of the global population.”

This deployment, according to the partners, aligned with the United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals SDG Goals 1, 2, 6, 7 and 13 and the  African Development Banks five goals– Light up and Power Africa, Feed Africa, Industrialise Africa, Integrate Africa and improve the quality of life for people of Africa.

The strategic goal of Parallel Wireless and Hotspot’s partnership, according to the statement, is to help regional mobile operators build and expand wireless networks across Nigeria, providing next generation digital services to local communities.

This will help farmer’s groups to create over 100,000 direct jobs and 1,500,000 indirect jobs across Nigeria, the statement added.

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