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Sponsors
For more information on sponsorship and exhibition pacakages at GSM>3G East & Central Africa 2007, please contact Tansy Clark today:
Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 5676, or
email: tansy.clark@informa.com
Ericsson has been active in Africa since the 1890s when the company started providing fixed-line infrastructure to North Africa and South Africa. Today, the company is a leading supplier of telecommunications equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators in sub-Saharan Africa. Ericsson’s Market Unit sub-Saharan Africa covers 43 African countries with a combined population of some 500 million people, counts more than 50 mobile and over 20 fixed-operators in sub Saharan Africa as customers, and has more than 45 percent market share in the GSM space. Today Ericsson’s office in Woodmead, Johannesburg serves as the head office for this market unit, supported by regional hubs in Nigeria and Kenya, as well as offices in Botswana, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon and Ghana. Ericsson’s involvement in sub-Saharan Africa spans the full spectrum of telecoms, from infrastructure to value-added services. One of the company's main objectives is to establish a leading position in the emerging mobile market by driving the development of third-generation mobile networks, which could put the Internet within the reach of many Africans for the first time. With the licensing of cellular telephony in South Africa in early 1994, Ericsson achieved immediate success as the sole supplier of GSM network infrastructure to MTN South Africa. Since then, Ericsson has fanned out into the rest of sub-Saharan Africa and has played a key role in the growth of Africa’s GSM mobile telecom market. February 2006 saw the integration of Marconi Communications South Africa into the Ericsson organisation following Ericsson's international acquisition of Marconi's telecom equipment and international services businesses.
For more information please visit www.ericsson.com
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq 'MSFT') is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are: Platform Products and Services Division: Includes the Client Group, the Server & Tools Group, and the Online Services Group Business Division: Includes the Information Worker Group, the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group Entertainment and Devices Division: Includes the Home & Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group.
For more information please visit www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. The combined pro-forma revenues of €17.1 billion Euro in fiscal year 2006 make Nokia Siemens Networks one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries and is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. It combines Nokia’s Networks Business Group and the carrier related businesses of Siemens Communications.
For more information please visit www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks for operators around the world. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and potential growth for its customers. Huawei’s products and solutions cover wireless products ®HSDPA/WCDMA/EDGE/ GPRS/GSM, CDMA2000 1xEVDO/ CDMA2000 1X, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX©, core network products (IMS, Mobile Softswitch, NGN), network products (FTTx, xDSL, Optical, Routers, LAN Switch), application and software(IN, mobile data service, Boss), as well as terminals (UMTS/CDMA). Major products are based on Huawei’s selfdesigned ASIC chips and shared platforms to provide high-quality and cost-effective products and solutions with quick response. Huawei has over 61,000 employees, and 48% of them are dedicated to R&D. Huawei’s global R&D centers are located in Bangalore India, Silicon Valley and Dallas USA, Stockholm Sweden and Moscow Russia in addition to those in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu China. Huawei has set up over 100 branch offices worldwide to provide customers with quick and excellent services. Huawei’s products are deployed in over 100 countries, and serve 31 of the world’s top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide. Huawei’s Sub-Sahara Regional Division has its headquarters in South Africa with 13 branch offices. It covers 43 countries with products deployed in over 30 of them. The Regional contract sales reached 1.5 billion in 2006.
For more information please visit www.huawei.com
Safaricom Limited is Kenya's current leading Mobile Telephone Operator. It was formed in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya. In May 2000, Vodafone group Plc, the world's largest Telecommunication company acquired a 40% stake and management responsibility for the company. Safaricom's aim is to remain the leading Mobile Network Operator in Kenya. In order to achieve this, a strong focus has been placed on quality of service to our customers. Safaricom is and will continue implementing best practices based on Vodafone's vast international experience and Telkom Kenya's unique knowledge of the Kenyan market conditions. The result of this will ensure a superior quality of service that is customer focused and will benefit every subscriber.
With our fast growing subscriber base (standing at over 6 million), we now have over 1000 employees so as to keep up with this fast growing industry. Safaricom has also opened 9 Customer Care shops countrywide. The retail shops are located in Nairobi (5), Mombasa (2), Kisumu & Nakuru. Plans are also underway to open more retail shops in other major towns within the country.
In the modern world of globalization, Safaricom has been able to keep pace with the global mobile telecommunication scenario by having strategic business associations; associations which add value to the global mobile telecommunication initiative and which help in meeting the dynamic challenges of the modern mobile telecommunication world. Our strategic association with the world leaders in mobile telephony has created a loyal base in the Kenyan market today.
Welcome to Kenya,
Safaricom - The Better Option
Contact Information;
Chris Muthama
Marketing Manager - Communications
Safaricom Ltd
Tel: + 254 20 427 3272
Fax: + 254 20 427 3894
P. O. Box 46350 - 00200
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: cmuthama@safaricom.co.ke
Website: www.safaricom.co.ke
Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and
governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to
end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP
technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end
solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With 79,000
employees and operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The
company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology
and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved proforma combined
revenues of Euro 18.6 billion in 2005, and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures
exclude impact of activities to be transferred to Thales].
For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com
