abstract:Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, or NITEL, is the principal telecommunications company in Nigeria, and was owned by the government of Nigeria until it was sold to Mtel by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). The mobile telecommunications arm of Nitel,
President Olusegun Obasanjo's government is currently considering who should be allowed to run mobile phone services in Nigeria, but so far, Nitel's land line monopoly remains intact.
And rather than wait for Nitel to deliver a high capacity link to connect him and his customers to the backbone of the internet, he has opted for a direct satellite link to the United States.