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Articles tagged with: Africa and Emergency
Global Location-Based Platform and Infrastructure Revenues to Reach $1.8 Billion by 2015
Global LBS platforms revenue will grow from $560 million in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2015, at which point they will reach saturation. While in the past Mobile Location Center (MLC) licensing revenues were largely driven by the E911 emergency calling market in the United States, in the future both the launch of carrier-grade LBS services and governmental safety and security requirements will boost MLC revenues in other regions such as Europe, Latin America, africa and the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. more
Related Tags: location-based-services, lbs, indoor, coverage, globe
WFP, Vodafone Project Distributes Food Vouchers by Text Message in Burkina Faso
The U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) and the mobile telecommunications company Vodafone are piloting a project that will allow shopkeepers in Burkina Faso to manage food vouchers by text message. more
Related Tags: vodafone-foundation, united-nations, mobile-coupons, cell-phone, planning, Burkina Faso
Improving Mobile Phone Coverage Across Lake Victoria
Mobile phone coverage across africa's Lake Victoria is to be expanded in a joint venture between Zain, and Ericsson, in an initiative coordinated by the GSM Association. The coverage will comprise the area of the lake where 80 percent of fishing activities take place, allowing communication and SMS exchange to and from phones. This enhancement will fuel economic and social development of the lakeside communities and potentially reduce the number of fishing-related deaths each year. more
Related Tags: lake-victoria, ericsson, zain, gsm-association, security, life, value-added-services, solar, Uganda
Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village
As part of the Millennium Villages project, Ericsson and operator, Zain have built a green-powered site in the remote village of Dertu in northeastern Kenya. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply reliability. more
Related Tags: sim-card, sim, solar-power, roaming, itu, wind, ericsson, zain, villages, health, solar, Kenya
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