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″).
Undersea fibre optic network ready to deliver unprecedented capacity and connectivity to Africa
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 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.
SEACOM Closes Financing, Starts Full Construction of Undersea Fiber Optic Cable
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
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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