MTN Nigeria has rolled out 10,000 base stations across the country.
This, it said in a statement on Monday, reinforced its position as the largest telecoms network in Africa.
The additional base stations would significantly improve its quality of service, it said, adding that they were a major component of the company’s infrastructure as they had direct impact on network capacity and the experience of customers.
The statement quoted MTN Nigeria Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Michael Ikpoki, as saying that the company was focused on three major areas, one of them being the significant improvement of customer experience.
He said that MTN would be building on a track record of aggressive investment in the network to ramp up capacity and ultimately improve service quality.
According to him, MTN had led the industry in terms of rapid network rollout, and the company’s aggressive drive to significantly improve customer experience on the network in the last few months had led to record deployment of base stations across the country.
The MTN Nigeria CEO said, “In the last few months, we have ramped up our rollout. Last month, we had a record rollout figure and we are currently rolling out up to 300 sites a month to make sure that we have enough capacity. We are getting more head-room, more dormant capacity in the network. That way, we can carry more traffic and give our customers a decent quality of service on a consistent basis. Indeed, there has been noticeable improvement and this will continue.”
Ikpoki said apart from crossing the 10,000 base station deployment mark, the company had also installed additional switching centres, aside from its world-class network management centre, and approximately 20,000 kilometres of fibre-optic cable cross country and around metropolitan hubs.