9mobile to Partner Cross River State on Accelerated Development, Growth

Emma Okonji

Telecommunications Company, 9mobile, has said it will partner Cross River State government to accelerate development and growth in the state.

Negotiations with the state government is ongoing and a proposal was made by the Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, Juergen Peschel, during a business meeting with the state governor, Prince Bassey Otu, on the sideline of the International Cooperation and Investment Summit, which held in Calabar recently.

Peschel informed the governor that 9mobile would be open to partnership with his administration and would offer simple, straightforward services of benefit to the state.

Presenting the proposals to the state governor, Peschel said: “We propose to build a data centre that will be instrumental in hosting any government data and form the basis of digitalizing administrative processes. This will be one of the enablers of improving security in the state and will be based on the ‘Build, Operate, and Transfer Model’. This centre will also help educate and partner with universities to deepen learning.”

He explained further that data centres are vital to global connectivity and the continuity of daily business operations. He said the benefits of having the data centre would be to support business applications and provide services such as data storage, management, backup and recovery, productivity applications, such as email, high-volume e-commerce transactions, powering online gaming communities as well as big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence which will be beneficial to the state.