Vivada Empowering Rural Telephony in Africa.

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1 Empowering Rural Telephony in Africa

2 Africa Today Only about 30% of Africa is covered by telephony services Due to the remoteness and lack of ROI, traditional operators are ignoring the rural African markets 30%

3 Africa Today Today 80% of operator revenue still comes from voice calls 80% Most African governments have plans and Universal Service Funds to develop rural telephony

4 Empowering Rural Africa Essential for economic and social development Mobile telephony to aid communication with the rest of the world Internet access via hotspots and Cyber Cafes Fast, secure money transfer facilities

5 What is the opportunity? Build rural network at the lowest possible price to allow the villagers to communicate with the rest of the world Operate and maintain the network with the lowest possible cost of ownership and fastest possible ROI Build a profitable business Offer connectivity, internet and Cyber cafe services from one single point in the village

6 Who are the stakeholders? Rural Telephony Operator Builds village micro networks World Telecom Labs Supplier of micro and billing solutions Village Entrepreneur Will manage the village telephony business Satellite Provider Supplier of the satellite modem plus the bandwidth Telecom Operator Supplies the telephony connectivity to the rest of the world

7 Network within the village Dish Cyber Cafe Voice Operators Sat Modem Local Billing/ VoIP Printer Billing

8 Bill of Materials Case 1 BOM Cyber Cafe PCs Capex: 26,750 The Entrepreneur in the village builds and runs the network Single cell Network-in-a-box Node + Router Manage subscriptions and permissions locally Operator supplies own SIMs or uses existing Satellite Modem and Dish Opex: 900 Hundreds of subscribers supported 24 simultaneous calls per Microcell Basic data access supported on phone (GPRS) Local Billing and VoIP Server SMS supported (option) Roaming supported (within the network) Satellite Connection ROI: 17 months Prepaid, Post paid and subscriptions possible Micro Set up

9 Network Multi-village Dish Cyber Cafe Dish Sat Modem Cyber Cafe Sat Modem Printer Billing Printer Billing 2 1 Dish Cyber Cafe Dish Voice Operators Sat Modem Satellite Modem Billing and Provisioning Centralised billing and VoIP Switch Printer Billing Central Office 3

10 BOM- Villages and Central Office BOM Cyber Cafe PCs Capex: 323,950 Rural Telephony operator builds 10 villages Centralised control on every village Node + Router Centralised control of all price lists Bandwidth savings can in crease revenues Satellite Modem and Dish Opex: 18,525 Hundreds of subscribers supported Cyber Cafe revenues are a bonus Basic data access supported on phone (GPRS) Local Billing and VoIP Server Satellite Connection Central Office Capex: Starts at 56,500 ROI: 18 months SMS supported (option) Roaming supported (within the network) Prepaid, Post paid and subscriptions possible Micro Set up

11 - multiple revenue streams Service revenue Call Shop revenue Cyber Cafe revenue Internet Hot Spot revenue Money Transfer revenue Any product sales revenue

12 WTL - at the heart of communications in Africa 5 Nigerian Exchange Carriers BREEZE CCN NICONNX ICN EXCHANGE 10x toll-quality voice calls on a single 64kbps data channel 239,253 calls handled by WTL solutions every hour in Africa 3 billion Voice minutes in 6 months 30+ Countries installed 140 Million Nigerian subcribers rely on WTL s Mobile Number Portability Solutions Innovative Product of the Year Nigerian Telecoms Award for WTL s 2nd generation VoIP switches

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