DOPC is the leading ISP in West Africa and is deploying in the 2.3 GHz band with plans to roll out services in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt to cover the cities from end to end. The service will entail customized Internet and intranet plans for the banking sector, corporate, oil & gas, educational institutes, government sector, etc. It will offer excellent Internet solutions for the home & small medium enterprise (SME) segment as well.
"Our goal is to provide broadband wireless Internet and intranet services to the principal cities of Nigeria -- Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. We expect to have over 15,000 users in 2007 and as we move into 802.16e WiMAX, we expect mobility to change the face of broadband services and mobile telephony. We are rolling out a state of the art platform with pre-paid and post paid services, backed with a full 24x7/ 365 help desk. We are the first company in Nigeria to launch this platform in the 2.3 GHz frequency. The 2.3 GHz frequency has vast advantages over other frequencies and customers will soon realize this once the platform is launched," said Munish Sharma, managing director of DOPC.
Anurag Garg, head of operations added, "We have customers, corporate as well as individuals, who are already very excited about this service. A simple plug and play modem or a PCMCIA card is all that is needed to self install and get started. Another unique feature is that for the first time in Nigeria, customers will be able to use the same account in multiple cities i.e. Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt hence they will carry the Internet with them. That's personal broadband. We have started taking bookings for the first phase and are overwhelmed with the response. I am confident that we are bringing a new era once again to the broadband market in Nigeria."
The deployment features Navini's Ripwave MX platform that is designed for seamless evolution to 802.16e mobile WiMAX with Navini's Smart WiMAX solution. Smart WiMAX combines the Smart Beamforming technology currently in commercial service around the world, with beamformed MIMO, which can double the data throughput for WiMAX subscribers.
