Convergence Partners is an investment management and advisory firm, focused on the telecommunications, media and technology sector in emerging markets, with a principal focus on Africa.

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New Dawn Satellite on track for launch

April 19th, 2010 | admin
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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.

African Communications Market : Onward and upward (Research Report Vol 2 No.1 2009)

December 1st, 2009 | admin
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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″).

SEACOM Goes Live

July 23rd, 2009 | admin
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Undersea fibre optic network ready to deliver unprecedented capacity and connectivity to Africa

Convergence Wireless Networks brings wireless broadband connections to Africa

August 19th, 2008 | admin
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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.

Convergence Partners invests in Integrat

August 19th, 2008 | admin
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Convergence Partners Investments, a Black Economic Empowerment investment company focusing on the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector, announced today that it had taken a stake in Integrat, a major South African Wireless Applications Service Provider (WASP) Aggregator with related interests in digital content, online platforms and other ancillary activities.

Investment in SEACOM

November 14th, 2007 | admin
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SEACOM Closes Financing, Starts Full Construction of Undersea Fiber Optic Cable

Convergence Partners secures R200m funding facility from Nedbank Capital and Makalani

August 7th, 2007 | admin
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Convergence Partners, a Black Economic Empowerment investment company focusing on the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector, is pleased to announce that it has successfully completed a capital raising of R200m.

CP Research Report Vol.1 No.2 2007: WiMAX = 4G

August 1st, 2007 | admin
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CP Research Report Vol.1 No.2 2007: WiMAX = 4G

CP Research Report v1 2007: African Telecommunications Market

April 1st, 2007 | admin
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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.