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James WekesaChief Commercial Officer

Opportunities Availed by Increased Bandwidth Capacity in

Africa

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

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!

Internet; Africa and World Statistics

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Zimbabwe 14th in Africa in terms of number of internet users

www.internetworldstats.com

Broadband Growth in Africa….

3 main catalysts will continue driving broadband gr owth in Africa..

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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 1 st time more smart phone than feature phones were shipped globally.

Source: IDC Analysis

GSM – CDMA modems

Other Broadband Access Enablers…..

WiFi – WiMax coverage

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ADSL modemsVSAT

Fibre

The Power of Broadband, from 75 years to 35 days

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• 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

Opportunities Broadband brings to Africa….

e-Justice

eLearning

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e-Government eTourism

eFarming

Opportunities Broadband brings to Africa….

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Video SurgeryeCoaching

eFarming

Cyber CafesCall centres

Opportunities Broadband brings to Africa….

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ISPs

Call centres

Mobile Broadband

Data processing

On-line bankingOn-line Payment

Opportunities Broadband bring to Africa….

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On-line Shopping

On-line Payment

On-line EntertainmentOn-line Content

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 30 th June 201215.3% of the population, www.internetworldstats.com

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

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

Botswana Telecommunications Corp.

Dalkom Somalia

Djibouti Telecom

Gilat Satcom

Lesotho Communications Authority

LPTIC (Libya)

Onatel Burundi

WIOCC Shareholders

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Seychelles Cable System Company

Onatel Burundi

TDM (Mozambique)

Telkom Kenya Orange

TelOne (Zimbabwe)U-COM Burundi

Uganda Telecom Ltd.

Zantel (Tanzania)

• 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

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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Tailoredsolutions

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

+WIOCC

shareholders

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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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

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James Wekesa – CCO

james.wekesa@wiocc.net

Cell: +254 722 300033

Cell: +263 775 496133

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