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Articles tagged with: Africa and Lake Victoria
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: ericsson, zain, gsm-association, security, life, value-added-services, solar, emergency, Uganda
Mobile Phone Towers to Monitor African Weather
A new partnership has been announced that will place weather monitoring stations on up to 5,000 mobile phone towers operated by Zain, and other mobile networks, across the african continent. The initiative is being backed by the Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. more
Related Tags: zain, ericsson, weather, , towers, security, united-nations, target, cell-phone, farming, geneva
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