Globacom, the indigenous telecommunications company, has disclosed plans to provide an e-learning platform for students of the University of Ilorin in the Kwara State.

The company said it is particularly working on a plan to place the university's curriculum and academic work on its telecommunications infrastructure to enable students access their lectures and lecturers from anywhere in the world.

The solution, according to Glo, will be accessed through the students' hand-held devices or computers using its vast and modern voice and data technology.

The new plan, according to Glo management, is in reaction to an appeal by the University Authority for an ICT solution that will further revolutionise the institution.

The university's Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali led a team of other top management staff to the Glo corporate headquarters in Lagos to make the appeal.

Prabhat Aggarwal, Globacom's Chief Commercial Director, explained that the company had rich experience in providing integrated telecommunication services to organisations in the country.

According to him, Globacom is the official telecoms carrier for most of the leading firms in Nigeria including the oil and gas sector, banking, manufacturing, food and beverage sectors as well as government establishments.

"With this track record and given our wide network running on microwave infrastructure, optic fibre rings and the Glo 1 submarine cable, it will not be difficult to provide integrated voice and data services to your community for academic, administration and security purposes," Aggarwal said.

Aggarwal explained to the university delegation that the company already had an electronic learning (eLearning) template that could put all faculty curriculum, lecture notes and cached teaching sessions for up to five years on the intranet or internet for the academic community to access at will and from anywhere.

This is in addition to video streaming, local intranet and extranet, web-based learning plus teleconferencing facilities which can make a live connection between students in a class and a lecturer from anywhere in the world.

Globacom offered to also provide the University of Ilorin community with internal communication solutions including Closed User Group (CUG), fixed wireless connections and Bucket GPRS services which provides bulk data bundle for the entire community and PABX connections.

Globacom is currently the official telecoms partner of the university providing direct and exclusive internet connection to the whole university community.