New Dawn, the first of its kind joint venture between Convergence Partners and Intelsat, is on track to launch its $250m geostationary communications satellite, which is targeted at the African market, by the end of the year, Flavien Bachabi, vice-president for Intelsat Africa said yesterday, 13 April 2010.
This is an update to the Convergence Partners report entitled “African Telecommunications Market: Last Frontier For Growth” (Vol.1 No.1 of 2007) (”Report 1″).
35% stake in WIA Company Limited provides exposure to fast growing Tanzanian enterprise market; expands African footprint
Convergence Wireless Networks and Internet Solutions announced today that they have collectively acquired a 68.5% equity stake in leading Mozambique based INTRA Lda.
Seacom, the first undersea cable providing fibre connectivity to the East Africa, is enabling affordable access to the internet to millions of people.
African Satellite Program will Launch Intelsat New Dawn by Late 2010
Communication Solutions (Comsol) in partnership with one of its shareholders Convergence Partners is seeking to build a portfolio of wireless broadband data operations across multiple countries in Africa. A new investment company called Convergence Wireless Networks (CWN) has been formed for this purpose.
SEACOM Closes Financing, Starts Full Construction of Undersea Fiber Optic Cable
CP Research Report Vol.1 No.2 2007: WiMAX = 4G
This is the inaugural research report published by Convergence Partners in a planned series of reports on the ICT sector in the African continent. As such, we have chosen to provide a broad overview of the telecommunications market on the Continent, with future reports planned to provide greater detail on specific topics.
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