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.

”We are concerned more with how
the people in Enugu like any other city shall have global access at
N10,000 per annum in order to facilitate Enugu as the knowledge hub of
the South East.

It will be recalled that Zinox Technologies in
promotion of knowledge democracy in Nigeria, entered a joint venture
with Enugu State Government but the partnership could not inject more
capital to meet with a sudden surge in the demand for connectivity in
the city which led to a disagreement; and this had prompted the firm to
buy out the government which owned 80 per cent of the project in order
to have the flexibility to operate the network.

Source: The Punch