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Network modernisation costs 9mobile N70bn

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9mobile, a telecommunications company, on Tuesday says it has invested over N70 billion on its ongoing network modernisation.

9mobile in a statement made this known during its annual Channel Partners Conference held recently in Lagos.

The Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, Juergen Peschel, said additional 600 new sites, equipped with 4G LTE facilities would be deployed alongside the new broadband services to enlarge its fibre network across some Nigerian cities.

Peschel said that this became necessary to enhance operations and market competitiveness.

He said that this would be done among other technical, digital, and organisational upgrade to demonstrate 9mobile’s core values of innovation, quality of service, and customer-centricity.

Peschel said that the company was on the path of a resurgence following the enormous investments into its network operations and a strong commitment by the board and management to aggressively reclaim market share

“9mobile is on the path of resurgence. We are taking back lost territories in the market and forging ahead to reclaim our innovative position and industry leadership.

“The years ahead are promising when you consider the level of expansion we are embarking on,” he said.

Also, the Chief Sales Officer at 9mobile, Victor Nwaobia, emphasised that the impact of the unique relationship the company had enjoyed with its committed channel partners, drove its growth over the years.

“That we have sustained or retained almost 75 per cent of our channel partners over the years is a massive testament and commitment for our business, which is in its fifteenth year and going strong,” he said.

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9mobile launches mentorship programme for entrepreneurs

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A telecommunication company, 9mobile, on Friday launched the first edition of its mentorship programme, ‘The Hack’, for young entrepreneurs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria.

The Director, Marketing Communications, 9mobile, Saidat Lawal-Mohammed, said at the official launch of the initiative in Lagos that it was targeted at SMEs and entrepreneurs.

Lawal-Mohammed said that ‘The Hack’ was targeted at SMEs and entrepreneurs desirous of scaling their businesses and looking for support to grow.

She said that The Hack was one of the 9mobile interventions in developing the SMEs space by empowering entrepreneurs with knowledge and skills.

“We have partnered with TriciaBiz, a business consulting firm and other experts, to give value to small business owners by teaching them attractive ways of improving their businesses.

“At 9mobile, our believe is that SMEs have great way of adding to growth of our economy and the Gross Domestic Product, the more of SMEs we can improve in Nigeria, the bigger our economy becomes.

“The expectation of 9mobile was that the participants, through this Hack would jumpstart their businesses with skills gained in the mentorship sessions, “she said.

She added that 9mobile would expand the mentorship programme to other states in Nigeria.

Lawal-Mohammed said that the company would scale up ‘the Hack’ and leverage technology to ensure many people benefits from the initiative.

Also speaking, Mr Karn Gulati, Director of Strategy, 9mobile, said that technology remained a strategic enabler for startups in achieving desired goals.

“Successful startups in the current ecosystem must understand available ttechnology in the market and ready to use available free project management tools.

“They need to rely on data-driven decision-making (DDDM) through analytics and digital programming and not relying on their intuitions,” he said.

In her presentation, Tricia Ikponmwonba, the Lead Strategist at TriciaBiz, a business consulting firm, taught participants on how to improve on their market penetration, market development, products development, sales channel optimisation and promotion among others.

She added that they could improve on their products by developing different quality levels of their products, adding new features to existing products and by looking across complementary product offerings.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the mentorship programme featured breakout sessions where business groups and startups developed business growth strategies for different brands.

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9mobile identifies poor infrastructure blocking access to IT

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Nigeria’s telecom firm, 9mobile, has reported that poor investment in information technology infrastructure is impeding access to telecommunications.

The fourth national carrier added that Nigeria, like many other developing countries, remained below the required level of investment in infrastructure required for improved efficiencies and flow for economic growth and innovation.

The Executive Director, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs, of the firm, Mr Abdulrahman Ado, said at the year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD).

He said it was, therefore, critical that efforts were intensified to invest in the infrastructure that promotes quality connectivity.

“Accelerating Digital Transformation in Challenging Times” as theme, 9mobile said in order to speed up Nigeria’s economic development and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in particular, there is a need to accelerate the country’s digital transformation.”

This, it says, can be achieved with the deployment of digital infrastructure across the country.

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