Africa's telecommunications professionals are heading to Cape Town for their annual industry gathering AfricaCom on 21st and 22nd November, to discuss strategies for the continued growth of the continent's market.
Celebrating 10 successful years, the event will include a 2-day high-level conference and an exhibition showcasing the solutions of over 160 telecommunications companies 3000 telecommunications professionals are expected to attend, representing the continent's whole telecommunications value chain: from mobile (GSM and CDMA) to fixed-line operators, internet service providers, satellite operators, regulators, investors and telecommunications solutions providers.
The continent's leading operators discussing their strategies
On both days, the conference will open with a keynote session gathering some of the continent's leading operators discussing their strategies to maximise growth on the continent.
Tim Lowry, VP for Southern and Eastern Africa, MTN Group, and Managing Director of MTN South Africa will present the group's views on the changing role of operators on the continent, and will join a panel discussion in which Paul Edwards, Chairman of Starcomms (Nigeria) and Peter Boyle, Managing Director of Virgin Mobile South Africa, will discuss the evolution of the continent's communications value chain. Marc Rennard, EVP for Africa, Middle East & Asia at France Telecom Group, will discuss his group's expansion strategy in Africa, where it is currently present mainly in French-speaking Western and Central African countries.
Dr Nizar Dalloul, Chairman & CEO of Comium Group, will explain how his group went out of its original Middle-Eastern market to start new operations in West Africa. Alieu Conteh, Chairman and founder of Vodacom Congo (DR) will present the success story of an operator in one of Africa's largest countries.. In addition, Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau, will represent the ITU, and a senior representative of Zain will answer questions on the group's re-branding from MTC and the commercial strategy of its subsidiary Celtel International in Africa.
Other operators represented throughout the conference include Safaricom Kenya (with its CEO Michael Joseph), Celtel Kenya (CEO David Murray), Orange Cameroon (CTO Jean Le Bel Ngopnang), MTN Rwanda (CTO Peter Schulze), Celtel Chad (Managing Director Beston Tshinsele), Zantel, Tanzania (Director General Noel Herrity), Celtel Malawi (CEO Charles Zouzoua), Emtel, Mauritius (CEO Shyam Roy).
On each day the keynotes will be followed by three specialist streams covering different issues in the continent's communications market, providing participants with a chance to have a deeper understanding of the issues that matter most to their everyday jobs.
On the first day, the streams will be separated into one focusing on business models and market conditions in a converging market, a second one on new technologies to improve networks, and a third one for value added services. On the second day, the streams will cover the topics of networks and infrastructure (with an operator CTO panel), marketing strategies, and advanced services. All streams will include contributions from operators, ISPs, international carriers, regulators, telecom solution vendors, consultants and industry associations, to provide a complete picture of the telecommunications market and the optimum strategies to maximise its growth in Africa.
The larger than ever exhibition will include over 160 companies showing their latest solutions, including infrastructure equipment vendors, international carriers, satellite operators, OSS/BSS solutions providers, value-added services enablers, interconnection service providers, SIM card vendors, and more.
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