Alcatel-Lucent has opened a training centre hosted on the premises of the ''Ecole Sup'erieure Multinationale des T'el'ecommunications' (ESMT) in Senegal.
This follows the inking of an agreement between the two organisations to jointly promote education and skills development in the field of mobile telecommunication services in Senegal.
According to the parties, the project will equip ESMT students with relevant and practical knowledge and train them using the latest technological platforms. “This will have a positive and significant role in the improvement of skills in the field of telecommunications services in Western and Central Africa,” the organisations said in a statement.
The partnership will see the ESMT hosting the centre on its premises, and Alcatel-Lucent supplying and installing equipment and platforms for its development. The training centre is comprised of a transmission platform and a GSM base station system platform.
“This agreement is one more step in the long and fruitful cooperation between Alcatel-Lucent and the ESMT, and will enable both entities to contribute to the development of skills in Senegal and the quality of education in the country as well across Western and Central Africa,” says Mohamadou Arabani Saibou, director of the ESMT.
Alcatel-Lucent's VP of activities in Northern, Western and Central Africa, Fr'ederic Sallet, says the opening of the centre reflects its commitment to learning, while enhancing the proficiency and performance of telecommunications skills in the region.
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