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MARCH/APRIL 2017 southern african Volume 21 Number 6 Forwireless communications professionals in southern Africa COMMUNICATIONS l Is African broadband all about fibre? l Connecting the education sector l Comparing MFS on both sides of the Indian Ocean Moving Wireless ForwardTM SAWC 1704 p1 (Cover) RN.indd 1 28/04/2017 18:10 SAWC 1704 p2 (FG Wilson).indd 1 28/04/2017 18:54 wirelesssouthern african CONTENTS COMMUNICATIONS MARCH/APRIL 2017 southern african Volume 21 5 News review Number 6 MARCH/ Forwireless communications professionals in southern Africa COMMUNICATIONS APRIL 2017 > Vodacom demos critical comms over LTE l Is African broadband all about fibre? > BBOXX to use Aeris IoT for clean energy l Connecting the education sector l Comparing MFS on both sides of the Indian Ocean Volume 21 > Launch success for Iridium at last Number 6 > Managed service from Thaicom and Intersat > More spectrum needed for IoT and 5G – DSA 10 News > CETel boosts capacity with Arabsat Moving Wireless ForwardTM > First Intelsat HTS for Africa goes live SAWC 1704 p1 (Cover) RN.indd 1 28/04/2017 18:10 16 Wireless solutions > Gazprom scores big with satellite connectivity > Mastercard aims to create cashless continent Mobile Mark is a leading supplier of innovative, high-performance antennas to 13 Wireless business wireless companies across the globe. They > Motorola alleges Hytera patent infringement have been in the wireless industry for over 30 years and have roots in the early 16 Wireless solutions Cellular trials. > Myriad Connect service targets SIM-swap fraud 24 Wireless users The company design and manufacture antennas from 138 MHz–6.0 GHz. Features: Applications include public transit, 20 Fibre commercial trains, smart highways, > DAVE HOWELL wonders whether fibre can mining, utilities, remote monitoring, deliver universal broadband access across Africa. machine-to-machine (M2M), and the Internet of Things (IOT). Antenna styles 29 Industry view 24 Wireless users include omni-directional and directional > How operators and service providers are infrastructure antennas for network rollout; helping schools and educators. multiband mobile antennas for fleet management; low-profile and embedded 29 Industry view antennas for M2M/IOT applications. > NITIN MADHAVAN looks at the trends in mobile financial services and telecoms. 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Printed in England by The Magazine Printing Company SAWC 1704 p3 (Contents) RN NEW.indd 3 11/05/2017 11:53 Register here for your free digital edition http://kadiumpublishing.com/forms/africa/sawc_reg.htm NEWS Vodacom demos LTE critical comms Vodacom says it has successfully to construct and maintain, the user improve the performance of existing demonstrated the first broadband terminals are expensive and have limited mission and business critical services multimedia trunking solution for variety, and the network technology is such as PTT. critical comms users on a commercial often proprietary and inflexible.” More importantly, the operator says LTE network in Africa. The firm believes these issues can be it can also support new broadband It used Huawei’s LTE integrated overcome by using a broadband public multimedia trunking services such Trunked Radio Application (LiTRA) to trunking communications system as push to video, real-time video demonstrate the solution which ran on such as the one it demonstrated. It surveillance, high resolution photos its nationwide, commercial 4G network. says LiTRA overcomes the challenges and location based services. It adds The operator says traditional private of using a public LTE network for that the solution it demonstrated was mobile radio network technologies critical communication by prioritising fully compliant with 3GPP standards. (such as TETRA) mainly provide basic emergency comms with a higher Furthermore, the service is voice trunking services such as PTT QoS and also ensures encryption and compatible with existing consumer and cannot support new, innovative, security of these messages. LTE smartphones and new rugged high-speed data services such as Vodacom says LiTRA enables its LTE devices, and does not restrict the Applications such as real-time video video and multimedia services. entire LTE network to be leveraged user terminals to exclusive providers can be supported on existing consumer According to Vodacom: “These to provide high bandwidth and as is the case with traditional PMR smartphones and rugged LTE devices. traditional PMR networks are expensive low latency trunking capabilities to network technologies. Regulators IoT to help deliver clean energy to millions BBOXX and Aeris are collaborating in the world on a simple plug-and- management and device- connectivity sign tech to deliver clean energy to millions of play basis, removing the necessity to management over each SIM’s lifecycle. people living in off-grid communities configure local network settings. The company adds that Aeris’ global in the developing world. Aeris will also provide its AerPort support of major mobile standards such agreement UK company BBOXX designs, connectivity management platform for as GSM, CDMA and LTE, means that The Independent Communications manufactures, distributes and finances IoT devices. This will give BBOXX it will be able to deploy its devices across Authority of South Africa (ICASA) plug and play solar systems. Its core real-time access to data usage, alert the world as it looks to expand. and the National Communications products are a range of solar ‘battery Institute of Mozambique boxes’ that allow users to power small (Autoridade Reguladora Das appliances, from lights and mobile Communicações) have entered into phones to TVs and computers. a technical agreement. US-based M2M specialist Aeris offers The two bodies will cooperate and IoT connectivity in East and Central coordinate in respect of spectrum Africa. The collaboration between the management for telecoms and two will ensure that the battery boxes broadcasting services. They will also have reliable IoT connectivity and establish a technical committee to can be remotely monitored. address matters of common interest BBOXX will install Aeris’ global on radio frequency coordination. SIM at the point of manufacture, Under the agreement, ICASA thereby reducing both supply-chain and ARDC plan to work together to costs and deployment time. BBOXX control and manage, amongst other adds that by utilising Aeris’ single things, radio transmission spillovers, global access point name, its solar the exchange of information, and system can also be deployed anywhere BBOXX’s solar ‘battery boxes’ can power domestic appliances such as TVs. expertise in the field of radio comms. The partnership is the culmination of an agreement entered into by the two governments in June 2015. Zimbabwe sees its first Tier II data centre This aims to find new approaches TelOne has launched what’s said to be mobile converged company with claims customers will benefit from IT and strategies for consolidating, Zimbabwe’s