Main One extends global footprint with Global Crossing partnership

Funke Opeke, MainOne boss

By Prince Osuagwu

Main One Cable Company, the open access wholesale provider, has announced its decision to deploy a new portfolio of IP-enabled services and has chosen to partner with Global Crossing ,a leading global IP solutions provider, in order to bring global connectivity to its clients. This strategic agreement will enable Main One to further extend its customers connectivity in countries where it doesn’t have coverage by being part of the Global Crossing Tier 1 MPLS network.

This network, reaches more than 700 cities in more than 70 countries. and it would  enable MainOne customers  to extend their connectivity through across the US, Canadian and Latin American markets.   

In addition to expanding Main One’s reach, the partnership will increase flexibility with its new set of products and provide significantly reduced transit charges for customer terminations.

According to Main One’s head of Marketing and Strategy, Adebayo Oyewole, “We chose Global Crossing for its particular regional strengths. Our partnership with Global Crossing enhances Main One’s position as the one-stop shop for accessing the public Internet via the Main One network, which is designed for high capacity service. The new product portfolio enables Main One to deliver a wide range of connectivity options to geographically dispersed locations, while reducing customers’ costs by converging previously disparate data, voice and video networks. 

With the partnership now, customers can actually start small and grow with confidence because of the opportunity of tuning in to the fast changing needs of the 21st century

Main One joins a select list of top-tier service providers offering Global Crossing Fast-Track Services portfolio to their enterprise end users. In addition to Converged IP Services and Private Line, Fast-Track Services include Ethernet, Collaboration and Managed Services.

Perhaps that is why Global Crossing’s head of Carrier Sales for South Europe, Middle East and Africa Habib Issa, said: “We’re very pleased to join with Main One in offering its customers global access and IP-based solutions" adding that “Global Crossing Fast-Track Services combine the business processes, products, services and system tools necessary for service providers to quickly offer their enterprise customers end-to-end global data solutions, backed by consistent Service Level Agreements.”