Following the take over of complete control
of the Enugu Coalcity WiFi project, Zinox Telecoms, has said it is
working towards solely implementing the WiFi vision of the Enugu State
government.
This is coming after a buy-out of the Enugu State government in the Joint Venture.
The
company, on Friday, said the development was in line with the company‘s
mandate to cost effectively connect the next 30 million un-served
Nigerians in rural areas to the global knowledge domain, adding that
this prompted the commitment of over N140m to the project.
The
Chief Operations Officer, Zinox Telecoms, Mr. Theophilus Nweke, said
that at present, the network had been demobilised to enable the
management of Zinox Telecoms to do a system-capacity and inventory
audit and re-strategise on how best to run the network in a capital
city with few major industries.
”We want to make sure that at
the end of the day that we do not totally compromise the social
responsibility minded intentions with which we kicked-off the
partnership, even though we have bought out the Enugu State
government,” he said.
According to him, Zinox would upgrade the
network systematically on the basis of supply and demand, and generally
ensure that the Coalcity Wifi offered the best platform to those living
in the capital city.
Nweke said the company would subsequently
decide on how best to build a customer base that was not purely
commercially-driven as initially agreed with the State Government,
without compromising quality.
As we expect to see new and exciting web and mobile 2.0 startups and
applications to be launched in 2010, I thought it would be nice to
profile some of the start-ups that were launched in 2009 (or yet to be
launched).
I’ve made an attempt to diversify the list of startups around
several markets, and while this is a list of the most promising
startups I’ve found, they are by no means the best:)
In no particular order, here’s my list of Nigeria’s web startups to watch in 2010!
I am very excited to announce the official launch of the new Startups Nigeria platform (SN 2.0), built on an open source software and developed by a UK-based software development and management company,
Hi, my name is Anibe and I'm part of the development team working on the new Startups Nigeria website.
On January 1st 2010, a handful of invites were sent out to users officially launching the SN2.0 platform. If you have received an invite it means you are among the first out of hundreds who have indicated interest in the website over the last few months to be given access. It is our goal that this new community-centered site would help to change the face of online start-ups and web entrepreneurship in Nigeria.
Back in April 2008, Startups Nigeria was founded as a technology news blog for start-ups, entrepreneurs and innovations. The blog eventually became very popular, influential and highly respected within the Nigerian and African technology and social media space.
That was Version 1.0!
Since September 2009, Startups Nigeria moved from Version 1.0 to Version 2.0, built on an open source software and developed by a UK-based software development and management company.
What is Startups Nigeria 2.0?
