2. Presentation Agenda
• Broadband in Africa ….Now
• Broadband Access Enablers
• The Power of Broadband, from 75 years to 35 days
• What does all this mean for Africa?
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• What does all this mean for Africa?
• Opportunities Broadband brings to Africa….
• Zimbabwe & Potential Broadband Market
• About WIOCC…Africa’s Carriers’ Carrier
• Win – Win Strategy for Players in Zimbabwe
3. Broadband in Africa ….Now
More than 41 Tbps
or 41,000 Gbps or
41 million Mbps
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around Africa in
2013!
! UNBELIEVABLE!
4. Internet; Africa and World Statistics
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Zimbabwe 14th in Africa in terms of number of internet users
www.internetworldstats.com
5. Broadband Growth in Africa….
3 main catalysts will continue driving broadband growth in Africa..
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6. Mobile handsets – Key Broadband Access Enabler
• Manufacturers of smart
phones shipped 216.2
million phones in Q1 2013.
• 52% of phones shipped in
Q1, 2013 were smart phones
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Q1, 2013 were smart phones
• This was the 1st time more
smart phone than feature
phones were shipped
globally.
Source: IDC Analysis
8. The Power of Broadband, from 75 years to 35 days
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9. • For consumers: improved access to communications, information &
entertainment
• more affordable handsets including internet-enabled smartphones
• more cost-effective internet & broadband services
• wider availability of internet services
• For service providers: opportunity (and threat)
• technology advances creating a broadband-ready environment
What does all this mean for Africa?
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• technology advances creating a broadband-ready environment
• data revenue growth can counter falling voice revenues
• differentiation opportunities through premium services & new
applications
• For Africa: opportunity & growth
• ICT & broadband contribute to GDP growth
• a vital factor in expansion of the African middle class
14. Population
12,973 808 (2012 census)
2,098,199 Harare
Age structure
Zimbabwe & Potential Broadband Market
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15-54 years: 52% (Immediate Potential)
0-14 years: 41% (Future potential)
Literacy: 90.7%*
* Literacy means : +15 years who can read & write
1,981,277 Internet users on 30th June 2012
15.3% of the population, www.internetworldstats.com
15. TelOne and WIOCC Capacity Plan for Zimbabwe
• End to End service from Tier
1 POP to TelOne Telephone
House, Harare.
• *Backhaul, Onward Transit
and IP diversity services
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and IP diversity services
provided
• 96 x STM1 available to
TelOne, which translates to;
• 14.8Gbps or 14,880Mbps or
15.2million Kbps
**Backhaul diversity via Beitbridge under development
16. WIOCC…
• Formed in 2007
• Owned by 14 African telcos
− Tier-1 operators in their countries
• Largest investor in EASSy (28%)
− >50Gbps of lit capacity (EASSy total lit
190Gbps)
Africa’s Carriers’ Carrier
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− 1.32Tbps of design capacity (EASSy total
4.72Tbps)
• Strategic investor in WACS & EIG
− cost-efficient international reach & diversity
• Extensive Africa backhaul
− >50,000km of terrestrial fibre
• A leading African carriers’ carrier
− provides telcos & ISPs with end-to-end
capacity between Africa & rest of world
18. • WIOCC’s 24/7 Customer
Champions have end-to-
end visibility of all WIOCC
circuits
3rd-party NOCs
- Onward Connectivity
- Longhaul Network
- Backhaul Network
- Local Tail Access
WIOCC Customer Champions
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• A single point of contact,
liaising with 3rd-party NOCs
for provisioning,
maintenance and fault
resolution
Customer NOC
Activations
Faults
Queries
WIOCC Customer
Champions
19. Seamless
operations
Extended
reach
Integrated operational
processes - from solution
design to in-service
management
The ability to bundle
Access to expert
Connecting >400
locations across 30
African countries
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WIOCC’s Unique Shareholder Relationship
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Tailored
solutions
Making things
happen
Market
knowledge
‘last mile’, backhaul &
international access
into customised
technical & commercial
solutions
Executive-level relationships that ensure
we are able to ‘get things done’
Access to expert
in-country
resources &
knowledge
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WIOCC
shareholders
20. WIOCC has been recognised with multiple
awards for success in delivering unrivalled
• high-speed
• resilient
• diverse
capacity into, within and out of Africa
WIOCC Awards
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21. Win – Win Strategy for Players in Zimbabwe
• Compete on services NOT infrastructure
• Share infrastructure where possible to reduce duplication
and under utilized fiber hence poor ROI
• Collaborate and Compete is the new rule of the game
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• Introduce value added services (VAS) that increase
broadband uptake
• Benchmark and network with players in other markets to
keep abreast with new developments in the sector
• Invest in low-cost devices to increase broadband uptake
23. Challenges for Landlocked Zimbabwe
• Cost effective and diverse backhaul
options still limited
• Backhaul and transit capacity are
the most expensive components in
the pricing matrix
• Market remains a sellers market on
backhaul and transit for landlocked
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backhaul and transit for landlocked
countries
• Aggressive pricing is becoming a key
ingredient to securing new sales
• Relatively Poor Quality of Service
(QoS) due to multiple network
segments
