Airtel Nigeria said so far it has invested $1.5 billion to upgrade its network since acquiring the company in Nigeria in 2010.
The company management at the unveiling of a new theme campaign in Lagos said its data service has grown by 500 per cent with the movement to 3.75G network in the past seven months.
Speaking to the media at his first official assignment in Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, new chief executive officer of the
Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Nigeria
company said the new advertising campaign on its network was aimed at drawing attention to the enormous capacity of its network and its sweeping coverage of the length and breadth of the country which has given Airtel the boost ahead of the take-off of Mobile Number Portability.
According to him, “In the last 30 months, Airtel Networks Limited, has invested over $1.5bn dollars to expand and deepen our network capacity and quality in Nigeria, in pursuit of world class Quality of Service (QoS).
It is on record that Airtel was first to call for the implementation of MNP way back in 2010, when we launched our brand in Nigeria. That call was made based on the fact that we were making significant investments in our network and customer service, which are critical success factors in MNP.”
He further reiterated the fact that the level of preparedness of Airtel Nigeria for the opening markets pointing out that the company had just successfully completed Nigeria’s first Long Term Evolution (LTE) trail in Lagos and some selected states of the federation.