Rural Telephony Solution for Africa 1

Africa Today 2 Only about 33% Africa covered with telephony Due to the remoteness and lack of ROI traditional operators are ignoring the rural markets 80% of the operator revenue still comes from voice calls Most African governments have plans and Universal Service Funds to develop rural telephony

Africa Today Only about 33% Africa covered with telephony Due to the remoteness and lack of ROI traditional operators are ignoring the rural markets 80% of the operator revenue still comes from voice calls Most African governments have plans and Universal Service Funds to develop rural telephony 3

Empowering Rural Africa Mobile Telephone Connection: Communication with the rest of the world Communication Center : Make telephone calls Access the Information ● Cyber Cafe + Internet Hotspot Money transfer ● Send and Receive Economical and Social development 4

Stake Holders 5

Network Within the village 6

Villagenet BOM Case 1 7

Network Multi-village 8

Villagenet BOM Villages + central office 9 Capex starts at: 32,500

Revenue Streams 10 The project generates multiple revenue streams GSM service revenueCall Shop revenueCyber Cafe revenueInternet Hot Spot revenueMoney transfer revenue Any product sales revenue in the shop

● World Telecom Labs is a Belgium-based company which has long been a leader in the provision of VoIP switches, Pre-Paid applications and signalling gateways for emerging carriers and telecom service operators. WTL has an installed base of 100,000s of voice ports with service providers worldwide switching billions of minutes of VoIP traffic using WTL equipment. For more information about WTL and its products, please visit or World Telecom Labs Diegemstraat 42, 1930, Zaventem BELGIUM Tel: