Vodacom brings AfricaIPconnect to Nigeria

Posted by Mgbenka at Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |

Vodacom Business, one of the leading provider of pan-African corporate total communication solutions has introduced its latest solutions, AfricaIPconnect to Nigeria IT market.

According to the company, the solution was designed to redefine and guarantee better connectivity to organizations that desire superior end user experience when navigating the Internet space in Nigeria.
“Africa remains an under-served region in terms of reliable terrestrial connectivity with the infrastructure largely in the deployment phase. A number of major towns and cities across Nigeria fall within land locked regions with little or no access to terrestrial Internet services.”

Speaking during the unveiling of the new product, Executive Head, Product and Services, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Mr. Wale Odeyemi explained that AfricaIPconnect is a reliable, fully managed high speed Internet solution for large, medium and small size businesses located anywhere in Africa, using VSAT access technology.


“It is a highly reliable service built on premium C-band satellites to provide a direct connection to the Tier1 Internet backbone at speeds of up to 4Mbps/1Mbps for each of our customer sites, offering up to 99.5% uptime. It also takes reliable and cost effective connectivity in Nigeria and Africa at large to the next level”, Odeyemi explained.

Also speaking, the Managing Director, Vodacom Business Nigeria, Mr. Guy Clarke stated that the Vodacom AfricaIPconnect gives a new turn to Internet connectivity in Nigeria, stressing that it was developed to provide customers with dependable solutions that suit their varied corporate Internet connectivity requirement.

Meanwhile, AfricaIPconnect solution comes in four service plans which include; Premium, Lite, School IP and the Occasional IP plan for adhoc and periodical uses.

The Premium plan according to Vodacom, offers a low contention service at speeds up to 1024Kbps on the uplink and 4096Kbps on the downlink.

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