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Spatial Technologies Ltd |
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London/Nigeria |
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2007-07-13 |
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STL is really proud to release a commercial database that shows the location of over 3,800 wireless masts across Nigeria. This intelligence and competitive database contains such information as owner (operator) of each mast, geographic coordinates, city, LGA, state, and mast height.
As at May 2007, STL had gathered information containing the location of over 2,000 operational sites for MTN, about 1,400 sites for Celtel and some 1,600 sites for Globacom . It also includes over 100 masts for Starcomms' and some 70 for intercellular and Multilinks.
DATABASE TO EMPOWER INDEPENDENT SITE PROVIDER
In recent years, the emergence of independent site providers, which finance, build and own site networks that can be shared by multiple operators have revolutionized the way in which such operators do business.
Commenting on how this database could assist these independent site providers, Ireti Ajala, STL's CEO said, "by leasing existing sites/masts from independent providers wireless operators can direct more of their scarce financial and human resources to more critical needs. The onus is therefore on them to make a convincing business case for the patronage of the operators. This database will contain all they need to achieve this feat especially in those specific areas especially where they notice such needs like "Coverage Holes" without having to bother the operators about such information. Hey, everyone knows how the operators guard jealously their site database and coordinates details. This approach is effective and direct "
TELECOM INTELLIGENCE OFFERS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Knowledge is power. Intelligence about a competitor is the key to a company's performance in a highly competitive market such as telecom. This is very important particularly in Nigeria's telecom industry where operators face stiff competition. This database can empower any wireless operator to gather the following competitive information:
1) Competitor's Coverage Analysis. Knowing the location of all sites owned by a particular operator can assist its competitors in working out the extent of that operator's coverage. To illustrate, as at January 2007, STL had gathered the coordinates of about 1,492 Celtel's sites across Nigeria. Using the power of GIS and the location of these 1,492 sites, STL can prove that ast at January 2007, Celtel had effectively covered some 357 LGAs in Nigeria either wholly or completely. This translates to about 293,116.311 Sqkm in area representing about 31.69% Nigeria's total landmass.
2) Subscriber Analysis: Again, using the power of GIS, STL's analysis reveals that as at January 2007 Celtel had effectively provided coverage for about 64,529,150 people living within these 357 LGAs across Nigeria representing an estimated 46.09% of Nigeria's total population. This figure does not represent the total number of subscribers in Celtel's network, rather it is an indication of the total number of people who do have access to Celtel's coverage by virtue of where they live or work. Again, this analysis does not show the quality of coverage (-dbm) received.
Commenting on the reliability of the methodology used in producing this analysis, Ireti Ajala who once headed MTN's GIS unit for over 5years and who was responsible for producing similar coverage analyses published in MTN's annual report over a period of 5 years has this to say, "the key to producing such an analysis is knowing the exact location of an operator's site/mast. The rest is simple using the visual power of GIS and Nigeria's demographic data. GIS makes it a lot easier to map the coverage of each site to a geographic area and rationalize the population of people living within the covered area. The rest is just a matter of statistical calculation". Ajala said "this methodology is reproducible and the result is dependable at 98% level of confidence" He further said that "STL can produce this type of coverage analysis for all GSM operators a nd other CDMA networks whose sites are contained in STL's database"
Anthony Lawrence, STL's Business Development Manager said that "the gathering of this intelligence data is one of the most extensive independent data gathering exercise ever undertaken by any GIS company in Nigeria especially for the telecom industry as it required sending several field analysts to every cranny and crevices of Nigeria to map the location of these sites using GPS enabled PDAs with a GSM SIM slots. The data gathering solution architecture allowed each field analyst to send the field data using available GSM coverage to a server in our Lagos headquarter OTA (Over The Air) where the data integrity is checked and subsequently added to the database. This way, we eliminate common errors like typo, omission, commission, etc in field data gathering"
For more information and sample data, visit www.spatialtechnologiesltd.com/Mast_Database3.php
STL is Nigeria’s foremost GIS Solution provider and supplier of accurate geodatabase data. Our expertise is in the following industry segments: telecommunication, Bank, Fleet Managerment, Transport, Market Research, Energy, Oil & Gas, Real Estate, etc.
For more information regarding price, please contact, Anthony Lawrence. anthony_law@spatialtechnologiesltd.com Website: www.spatialtechnologiesltd.com Tel: +234(0)18533497 or our London office :+442085338338 |
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