Bourdex Thinks East
The country may soon be witnessing a tele-revolution as Bourdex Telecom, Nigeria’s premier wireless phone and internet service provider, gets set to deploy latest technology in the South east and South south. With this development, Bourdex Telecom would be launching the first (R-UIM - SIM CARD) based CDMA 2000 1X network in Africa. Bourdex Telecom would also be launching the first PTT (Push To Talk) service in the continent. This is in partnership with world's leading tele-manufacturing companies like Nortel Networks, Lightbridge, Glenayre, MorbileTornado, USStarcom, Verisign and Gemplus.
According to sources close to the Aba head office of Bourdex Telecom, the central idea of this revolution is to continue to fill in the gap in access to telephony that had existed in the South east and South south geo-political zones for a long time. Bourdex as such is re-branding to properly maintain itself as the people’s voice; notably, Bourdex commenced business in July 1998 at a time when telephone service was non­existent in the whole of Eastern Nigeria.
Though Bourdex has been in business for over a decade now, it has operated with an AMPS technology supplied by Harris Canada Inc. The upgrading of the Bourdex facilities to the world renowned CDMA 2000 lx platform by Nortel Nortworks, which industry watchers say is the latest telephone technology, will enable the network to offer such additional and richer menu of services as MMS, SMS, VMS, Mobile Internet, WAP, FAX, Push-To-Talk and VPN. It would, therefore, enhance the brand’s competitive posture even in this era of Unified Licensing Regime.
While confirming this development, the chairman of Bourdex, Chief David Ogba Onuoha, UgoEna Abiriba, said that the network will effectively cover nine states, 37 cities and countless communities in the South east and South south.
He described the long list of value added services as a “tele-revolution, the first of its kind in this land”
On Bourdex’s latest innovation called “Push-To-Talk”, industry watchers confirm that it is the first of its kind in the whole of the African continent. A far improved version of the well­-known Walkie Talkie, the Push-To-Talk technology enables the user to converse with others within the same network by the mere push of a button. And for ridiculously Low daily rates, market watchers say "Push-To-Talk" is the future of telephony especially as it empowers people to connect with one another easier than ever for business or pleasure, particularly the lower end of the society who ordinarily cannot afford the high GSM and land line rates.