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Of course, the Grand Daddy of telco shows in Africa is AfricaCom which takes place in Cape Town every year – 11-13 November next year. More details here: http://africa.comworldseries.com/
Other Informa shows in Africa are
Cloud World Forum Africa, 6-7 May 2014 in Joburg
East Africa Com, 20-21 May 2014 in Nairobi
Connecting West Africa Com, 10-11 June 2014 in Senegal
Aitec Africa run a number of well-attended shows. Here’s a list of its 2013 schedule:
Liquid Telecom has built the largest fibre network in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. Here are some of recent stories:
Reuters, November 2013 – Liquid builds first cross border fibre to Somalia
The Africa Report, November 2013 – General update on Liquid.
Telecompaper, September 2013 – Liquid connects to TTCL in Tanzania.
Balancing-Act, June 2013 – Liquid acquires assets of Rwandatel.
Financial Times, January 2013 – Liquid expands across Africa.
Nov 19 2012 – Liquid named Best African Wholesale Carrier at Annual Awards of Capacity Magazine Pictured is Ramzi Shalak Network Operations Manager at Liquid Telecom who picked up the award.
Nov 14 2012 – Liquid lays fibre in DRC…
This story was run in a multitude of places including:
Inmarsat interviewed at AfricaCom 2012 by Informa’s telecoms.com:
Suntrica has developed numerous solar-powered chargers for phones, ipods, cameras and other electronic devices. These provide consumers in developed markets with a portable environmentally-friendly power supply and people in emerging markets with a reliable way to charge their devices in areas where there is little or no electricity
This review was written by the legendery Duncan McLeod and appeared in South Africa’s Financial Mail.
Financial Mail – Mobile sun charger april 2009 Mobile sun charger
How many times has your cellphone’s battery gone flat at the most inopportune moments? It’s happened to all of us. Worse, you could be out in the bush without access to electricity, or on a five-day hiking trip across the Drakensberg. Anything could happen out there, and a fully charged battery could save your life.
The SolarStrap, developed by Finland’s Suntrica and introduced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, is an ingenious solar-powered cellphone charger ideal for these situations.
The 60 g device uses the sun to charge its battery – but it can also be charged via USB or the mains. Simply connect a phone using the correct power adapter – a wide range of adapters is included in the box – to give it a quick charge.
The SolarStrap – which is robust, highly flexible and water resistant – can easily be attached, using its Velcro strips, to a hiker’s backpack, a mountain bike’s handlebars, or even to a pants belt.
However, the really exciting application for the SolarStrap is not for Sandtonites at leisure, but rather for people in emerging markets who do not have a reliable electricity supply. Because the device is cheap and robust, it could sell millions of units in Africa.
Zephyr Corporation sells wind turbines to operators in MEA.
Click here to read an article we prepared for Connect World magazine.
Picking up a couple of gongs…
So here’s a photo of me at last week’s Global Telecoms Business magazine’s Annual Innovation Awards.
These prestigious awards, organised by the much-respected GTB magazine, celebrate the joint work of vendors and operators in innovative projects that better serve the telecom industry’s end customers.
I had two clients up on stage celebrating.
OMC Power and Bharti Infratel picked up an award in the most innovative consumer technology category for building micropower plants in rural India. These power plants provide electricity as an OPEX to Bharti Infratel’s off-grid towers.
And Liquid Telecom with its partner Ekinops were named as “Best Fixed Network Infrastructure Innovation” for building Africa’s longest single span fibre links.
Congrats to all the winners – but especially those I work for!!
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