The generic architecture for data/internet telephony in Nigeria

Nigerians were yet to get value for their money in telephony services through NITEL and GSM operators in Nigeria. After several years or months of commencement of operations, the service is not only too expensive, limited but inefficient. People because of the inefficiency in the sectors, got to a level where they have to procure sets connected to MTN, Econet and NITEL among others. In spite of this, there is problem of connectivity and reliability. Tariffs for the service are rather too expensive for both local and international calls. This paper proposes an innovative generic model for delivering voice and data traffics over IP to residential, small offices, medium and large enterprises in Nigeria at moderately reduced price, which cannot break one’s backbone while eliminating the current problems associated with NITEL telephony services. The paper also presents the benefits, the barriers of implementing Internet telephony as well as the Internet telephony implementation options. The cost for implementing the model is outlined in the paper.