The board of NatCom Development & Investment Limited ‘NatCom’, trading as ntel, has been inaugurated and General TY Danjuma named as Chairman.
Danjuma was named on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, while Tunde Ayeni as the Vice Chairman.
Other members of the board include Captain Idahosa Okunbo, Abiola Ayeni, Kasheem Shettima, Philip Chukwu, Kola Adesina, John Darlington, Dan Kunle, Babatunde Omotoba and Kamar Abass.
Danjuma is a retired military general, who once served as Minister of Defence in the first term of the President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.
He is a business tycoon, who has interests in banking, oil and gas. He is also a well-known environmentalist and philanthropist.
ntel commenced commercial operations of its 4G/LTE-Advanced network on April 8, 2016, in Lagos and Abuja. Network services in Port Harcourt are scheduled to commence early in Q4. NatCom projects making investments totalling more than $1billion by 2020.
ntel is Nigeria’s most advanced mobile 4G/LTE network providing superfast Internet Access that enables high-definition voice, data and video services. ntel’s network is built on the 900/1800 Mhz frequency bands which are the best propagation frequencies for the deployment of 4G/LTE technology.
ntel’s bouquet of services includes: National Bandwidth; International Voice Termination, International Bandwidth; Mobile and Fixed Communications services.
The company made its first on-net test data call in Lagos on Monday, January 18, 2016 and followed this with its first on-net Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) call in Lagos on Thursday, February 25, 2016. Commercial operations commenced on Friday April 8, 2016.
