Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country with a population of over 150 million. There are about 10 million CDMA subscribers among the four largest CDMA operators. The CDMA operators Starcomms, Visafone, and Multilinks have also launched EVDO Rev-A-based broadband services, which include dongles, and are expanding to handsets and fixed wireless phones. Starcomms and Visafone are ready to deploy OMH SIMs in the market.
Starcomms and Visafone are now ready with commercial OMH SIM cards and are in advance discussions with distributors and device manufacturers to support deployment of various OMH devices in market. Please watch this space for updates on the OMH device launch.
Mobile penetration is around 50% and PC penetration is around 1%, indicating a huge potential for future growth of mobile devices and broadband. According to Pyramid Research, mobile subscription is set to grow over 70% to 129 million by 2013. The open market in Nigeria is focused on dual-band (800Mhz+1900Mhz) low-end, mid-tier and high-end devices (phones, dongles and fixed-wireless) on 1X and EV-DO to promote features and data services across different market segments. The Nigerian operators are committed to providing attractive bundles targeted at different price-points based on features offered on the OMH devices. Please contact the OMH team for more information on current opportunities and how you can benefit.
"OMH provides opportunity for CDMA handset variety as a platform for vendors to distribute handsets across many different markets. At Starcomms we have always focused on providing the best products to our subscriber having regard to their needs and choices. The OMH initiative is going to definitely optimize CDMA device/terminal distribution and model availability, making it easier for new world class handset models to make their way into the Nigerian market faster." – Mr. Maher Qubain, Chief Executive Officer, Starcomms plc
“OMH increases CDMA handset variety, as it creates a framework where vendors can distribute handsets across many different markets." – R. Balachandran, Managing Director and CEO of Visafone
