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Wireless: Nigeria: NCC sees December launch for MNP

The long-delayed introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) in Nigeria is now expected to take place in December this year, Tony Ojobo, the director of public affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has told local newspaper The Punch. The NCC has been waiting for the conclusion of SIM registration in the country before it officially launches MNP, which enables a subscriber to retain their mobile phone number if they switch provider. As previously reported by CommsUpdate, the regulator announced in October 2011 that it had selected a consortium of three companies – Interconnect Clearinghouse Nigeria, Saab Grintek and Telcordia – to implement number portability for the first five years. Earlier this year Dr. Eugene Juwah, the executive vice chairman of the NCC, said the consortium would be responsible for the setting up and implementation of the NP platform within six months of receiving its licence in March 2012, to be followed by a testing period of two months. The introduction of MNP was first considered by the commission in the third quarter of 2007.

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Welcome to Calibre Network Limited. We provide management consultancy for the African telecommunications sector. We focus on delivering telecommunications solution and consultancy services to fixedline, wireless, mobile and broadband network operators. Contact us now to find out how we can best support your business needs. Calibre Network Limited is a Consulting and Technology Services Company, committed to delivering quality and innovation.

 
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Calibre Network's consultants have experience on supply and demand sides of key aspects of business and telecommunications technology and services. Ranging from understanding network and service developments and their impact on operators and the market, to system design ensuring they provide the required services while remaining optimised cost-wise. With the quantitative way of working that permeates our work, we have experience of developing operational and cost models to support both Operators and Regulators and maintain a standard model framework to speed up the development process.
For any inquiries in any of the markets we address, please send an email via the Contact page, giving your subject of interest.
The principal markets we address are:
• Africa – governments, regulators, network operators and service providers, Public Sector including Defence and financial services market (E.g Financial Extranet).
Our experience in telecommunications includes:
• Fixed – xDSL, PDH, SDH, WDM, DWDM, Optical switching, FTTX.
• Mobile – APN Services – GGSN & SGSN deployment
• Wireless – LTE Deployment/Operational strategy and technical build evaluation, WiMAX and Wi-Fi Mesh evaluation and deployment consulting
• Broadband – Fixed and Wireless with Internet Access
• IP – Core MPLS backbone and Services roadmap development and Service delivery consulting of IP Transit, DIA, Ethernet PtP & PtMP, VPLS, IPVPN, IPSec, etc
• Value Added Services
• Co-location and Carrier Hotel facilities consulting.
• Cross-connect and Interconnect services consulting
We apply our experience to provide consulting services, for supply and demand sides, in the business-facing areas of:
• Policy & Regulation
• Strategy & Planning
• Design & Integration
• Performance & Change
The relentless restructuring of the telecommunications industry requires organisations across the sector to develop sustainable businesses in regulated and highly competitive markets. Calibre Network’s combination of business and technical experience, founded on a strong quantitative approach, ensures we are well placed to assist:
• Established operators looking to consolidate their position or to open new areas of business e.g. MVNO gate
• New operators requiring market entry strategies and product definition e.g. MVNO and/or MVNE
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Company: CALiBRE NETWORK LIMITED signs a network enhancement consultancy deal with BT Telconsult for African MNO PDF Print E-mail
2009: Calibre Network Limited will start a network enhancement consultation project with BT Telconsult facing MTN Nigeria.
The consultation will last for an initial 12 months period and is expected to deliver services roadmap and network transformation for the enterprise market.
 

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Transport & IP Network Consulting Practice

With sophisticated networks and growing bandwidth needs in Nigeria, Metro buyers need powerful network providers and not just vendors.  Calibre Network can help you by recommending the most suitable network provider/s, designing a comprehensive, end-to-end Metro scalable solution to meet your timelines and demands for growth while ensuring redundancy and route-diversity as well as ensuring industry standard protection schemes exist within provider networks. We can consult on all aspects of transmission network design, deployment and implementation for PDH, SDH, DWDM, HDWDM, Ethernet over SDH, Carrier Ethernet and MPLS services. You can simplify your network by treating all connected LANs, MANs and WANs as a single network and reduce capital costs by replacing legacy WAN interfaces and circuits with highly efficient Ethernet ports and services.

Calibre Network consultants can recommend the best international Tier1 IP Services carriers to connect with who over wholesale IP services like IP Transit for direct international IP traffic. We have experience with the Ethernet and TDM connectivity options as well as Fixed and Burstable billing options on an international level.  We can also consult on the build, deployment, implementation or enhancement of an IP Backbone network to optimise it for minimum OpeX and CapX to maximum returns on revenue.  IP VPN technology is rapidly becoming the industry standard for supporting IP-based applications. With the security, privacy and quality of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network or a frame relay network, IP VPN becomes the natural replacement for these older technologies.  Calibre Network can help you replace multiple networks with a single, cost-effective solution that can greatly simplify the converged transmission of voice, video and data.