From closing multi-million naira business deals to finding love, and learning, technology is simply at the heart of humans’ daily life.
With technological advancements over the years bringing everything to anyone anywhere, the world has become a global village heralding innovations daily.
Owing to this, Olayemi Abifarin, chief executive of Telcroft Technologies Limited – a start-up that offers a wide range of telecom transmission equipment, is on a mission to deepen broadband penetration across the country, so every student can easily access the internet.
To achieve this, Olayemi is leveraging on his Africa-wide experience and partnerships to deploy 5G internet connection across campuses for students of higher learning.
The young entrepreneur says he was inspired to establish his business in 2017 to bridge the country’s gap in connecting the unconnected while deepening broadband penetration.
“This is done by partnering and providing innovative and rock-solid technology from the world’s best telecommunications vendors (OEM’s) who do not have a presence in Nigeria,” he says.
“The quest to provide access to broadband for the over 200 million people in Nigeria requires the support and strength of partners in technology and expertise which Telcroft offers,” he further says.
“Building on the relationships I have developed in my 14years managing mobile networks and communication service providers across Nigeria and West Africa,” he notes.
According to him, Telcroft has partnered with Siklu Communication – an Israeli telecom vendor that delivers multi-gigabit wireless fiber connectivity and Cambium Networks – an American telecom vendor that provides wireless connectivity globally, to provide solutions for connectivity to telcos as well as offering turnkey campus-wide broadband connectivity in tertiary institutions.
Since starting, Telcroft has carved a niche for itself in the connectivity market by providing solutions to network service providers and has continued to scale its operations.
The tech entrepreneur says his business plans to provide a fully managed campus-wide connectivity for four campuses in the short run and across all campuses nationwide in the long run.
Responding to questions on how the deployment would help facilitate learning on campuses, he says the pandemic has made it imperative for schools and higher institutions of learning to switch learning online, and getting Wi-Fi into classrooms is the first step in enabling digital learning.
“Getting Wi-Fi into the classrooms is the first step in enabling digital learning at the school. Without it, using laptops, netbooks or other online learning tools is impossible,” he says.
“Today’s multimedia education environment enables students to reach beyond the classroom, and the entire school campus needs to be connected,” he further says.
He adds that with solutions provided by his organisation through its partnership with Cambium Networks, campuses and schools will be able to easily access smart Wi-Fi.
On why he thinks the country is ready for 5G since it is yet to fully utilize its 3 and 4G, Olayemi says the country’s communication had already signed an agreement with NigcomSat to allow 5G services to ride on its C-band frequency spectrum. Continue reading
