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Glo Mobile

Since it launched its services on August 29, 2003, Glo Mobile has been at the forefront of revolutionary changes in the GSM sector in Nigeria, offering both Prepaid and Contract packages along with a range of Value Added Services.

In its first year of operation, Glo Mobile became the fastest growing GSM network in Africa, achieving a record one million subscribers and covering over 87 towns in just nine months. The subscriber figure at the moment stands at over 13 million with coverage extending to over 40,000 cities, towns, communities and major roads, thus making the company the second largest operator in Nigeria. The network will soon extend its frontiers to the West African sub-region as it is concluding negotiations with two neighbouring countries.
While vigorously pursuing its expansion strategy, the network has earned the identity of the Nigerian innovator. This is because it boasts a wide variety of innovative packages and tariff plans designed to fulfill the needs of a broad spectrum of market segments in Nigeria.
Prominent among the innovations Glo Mobile has introduced are the Per Second Billing, Blackberry, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Magic Plus, Glo Direct, Glo Mobile Internet, GloFleetmanager, M-banking and Glo Mobile Office.
While competition argued that Per Second Billing (PSB) was not possible until 2007 and that no network in the world has been able to launch with PSB, Globacom introduced the billing platform at launch. This caused a stir in the industry and is regarded as the most innovative landmark in the communications industry since the introduction of GSM services in Nigeria in 2001

Blackberry is an integrated wireless, handheld device, which supports push button e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, web browsing and other wireless information services.
In addition to the regular PDA applications and telephone capabilities, BlackBerry can send and receive e-mail anywhere it has access to an appropriate wireless network.
With MMS, subscribers can send and receive pictures, sound and text in a single message.
Glo Mobile Internet provides the subscriber high speed access to all popular sites which have been customized for mobile phone browsing, while Glo Direct is an advanced wireless internet access service that allows subscribers to stay connected to the World Wide Web, using their phones as a modem for devices such as laptop and smart phones.
Glo M-Banking is a new product which gives customers swift and easy access to their bank accounts from their mobile phones. The launch of Glo M-Banking makes it the first time in Nigeria that one single application will provide a uniform interface to a multitude of banks.
GloFleetmanager is a revolutionary vehicle tracking solution which enables the subscriber to track, locate and communicate with a vehicle by utilizing the Glo Mobile network. It offers a lot of features which are not available on normal tracking services.
Glo Mobile Office is a GPRS-based service that allows the subscriber to access his Microsoft exchange mail, appointments, calendar and tasks directly on his mobile phone. The service can also allow him to use his corporate applications like sales force automation and Customers Relationship Management systems directly from the mobile phone. The service revolutionizes the way Microsoft office is accessed across the country over Glo MobileÌs GPRS coverage area.
Glo Foneplas enables its subscribers to make new friends and find new love on their mobile phones. The WAP-based service provides an exciting medium for subscribers to meet and chat with new people on their phones within the Glo Mobile GPRS network.
And in line with its commitment to avail Nigerians the benefits of advances made in telecommunications technology, Globacom has launched the 3G Plus network. This followed a successful test-run of the platform by telecom vendors Alcatel. This is the second time that Globacom has been in the forefront of pioneering the latest transmission network in Nigeria, having introduced the 2.5G technology at launch in 2003 when other operators were running on the 2G.
The 3G Plus technology enables a much faster transmission of data, voice, broadband internet and multimedia services over a range of frequencies. It will allow customers to do video call, video streaming and high-speed mobile internet access from their 3G mobile handset. It also offers other advanced mobile services.