Airtel Assures Subscribers of Massive Fibre Rollout, Network Expansion

Emma Okonji 

Despite the incessant fibre cuts during road construction, coupled with some calculated willful destruction of fibre optic cables by social miscreants, Airtel Nigeria has assured subscribers of its plan to invest massively in fibre connectivity to the home and to further expand its network in order to boost service quality.

The CEO of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Dinesh Balsingh, gave the assurance in Lagos, during a media interactive session organised by Airtel Nigeria.

“We are rolling out massive fibre to the homes this year, despite the incessant fibre cuts experienced by telecoms operators. When there is fibre cut, consumers are affected and to address the issue of fibre cuts, Airtel has devised a means of having multiple channels in our fibre rollout so that consumers are not affected when one channel is damaged,” Balsingh said.

According to him, Airtel invested heavily in upgrading its network capacity last year, by ensuring that 99.9 per cent of all installed base stations were 4G enabled.  

“Last year, we promised to double our investments in Nigeria and we also talked about the importance of continued investments that we have to do in Nigeria. So today we have come to give an interim report on where we are, how we are progressing and where we are heading towards, including our challenges.” Balsingh further said.