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Rural Telephony Solution for Africa

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Africa Today

• Only about 33% Africa covered with telephony• Due to the remoteness and lack of ROI

traditional operators are ignoring the rural markets

• 80% of the operator revenue still comes from voice calls

• Most African governments have plans and Universal Service Funds to develop rural telephony

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Africa Today

• Only about 33% Africa covered with telephony• Due to the remoteness and lack of ROI

traditional operators are ignoring the rural markets

• 80% of the operator revenue still comes from voice calls

• Most African governments have plans and Universal Service Funds to develop rural telephony

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Empowering Rural Africa• Mobile Telephone Connection:

• Communication with the rest of the world

• Communication Center: • Make telephone calls• Access the Information

● Cyber Cafe + Internet Hotspot• Money transfer

● Send and Receive

Economical and Social development

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Stake Holders

World Telecom Labs:

Supplier of micro GSM + billing

solutions

Rural Telephon

y Operator: Builds village micro GSM

networks

Village Entrepreneur: Will manage

the village telephony business

Satellite Provide

r: Supplier of the

satellite modem plus the

Bandwidth

Telecom Operator: Supplies

the telephony connectivity to rest of the world

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Network Within the village

Villagenet

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Villagenet BOM Case 1

Single Cell GSM Network-in-a-box

Manage subscribers & permissions locally

Operator supplies own SIMs or uses existing

Hundreds of subscribers supported

24 simultaneous calls Per Microcell

Basic data access supported on phone (GPRS)

SMS supported (Option)

Roaming supported(Within the network)

Prepaid, Post paid and Subscriptions possible

The entrepreuner in the village builds and runs the network

Capex: €26,750

Opex: €900

ROI: 17 Months

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Network Multi-village

Central Office

Villagenet 1Villagenet 2

Villagenet 3

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Villagenet BOM Villages + central office Rural Telephony operator builds 10

Villages

VillagenetBOM

Central Office BOM

Capex: €323,950

Opex: €18,525

ROI: 18 Months

Centralized control on every Village

Centralized control of all price lists

Bandwidth savings can increase revenues

Hundreds of subscribers supported

Cyber Café revenues are bonus

Basic data access supported on phone (GPRS)

SMS supported (Option)

Roaming supported(Within the network)

Prepaid, Post paid and Subscriptions possible

Capex starts at: 32,500

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Revenue Streams

Villagenet

The project generates multiple revenue streams

GSM service revenue

Call Shop revenue

Cyber Cafe revenue

Internet Hot Spot revenue

Money transfer revenue

Any product sales revenue in the shop

● World Telecom Labs is a Belgium-based company which has long been a leader in the provision of VoIP switches, Pre-Paid applications and signalling gateways for emerging carriers and telecom service operators. WTL has an installed base of 100,000s of voice ports with service providers worldwide switching billions of minutes of VoIP traffic using WTL equipment. For more information about WTL and its products, please visit www.wtl.be or email sales@wtl.be.

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