Nigeria: Operators Join 22 Others to Source Alternate Power

Posted to the web 9 October 2008 Aaron Ukodie MTN Nigeria and the Zain Group are among 25 GSM companies under the GSM Association now exploring renewable energy sources such as solar, wind or sustainable biofuels to power mobile networks. The project is targeted at powering 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012. The project is particularly key to the Nigerian market where public power supply has been problematic leading to poor provision of GSM services. Other mobile operators and companies involved in the project include AXIS, Bharti, Dialog, Digicel, Idea Cellular, Indosat, Econet, Grameenphone, Mobinil, MTC Namibia, MTN Cameroon, MTN Group, MTN Uganda, Orange, Orascom Telecom Holding, Roshan, Safaricom, Smart, Telefonica, Telenor Pakistan, Vimpelcom, Vodacom Tanzania, Vodafone... [read full story]