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Laurinda Seabra

Are you Selling your products or services to NGOs, Civic Organisations and SMEs? Read on ...

About the Procurement Gateway - Civic Society, NGO and SME's Buying Group

Some feedback:

We started this project 3 months ago, because we ourselves as a civic organisation faced various challenges reaching a wide net of potential suppliers for the Adopt-a-Pothole program … we just didn’t have enough information about you as a “supplier”; neither did we have any relevant information on other potential suppliers for the project.

We started by following the “traditional” procurement process, and… Continue

Posted by Laurinda Seabra on October 17, 2009 at 1:21pm

Carlos Valdecantos

Why going green makes good business sense in telecom?

As explained in my previous post related to Green Telecom, energy consumption is one of the leading drivers of operating expenses for both fixed and mobile network operators. Reliable access to electricity is limited in many developing countries that are currently the high-growth markets for telecommunications.

It’s been a long time until telecom’s carbon footprint has been a hot topic in the industry. Without preventive measures, it is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years reac… Continue

Posted by Carlos Valdecantos on October 4, 2009 at 10:39am

Carlos Valdecantos

Will Dynamic discount tariffs succeed in Africa?

Reading today that Safaricom has launched a tariff that is expected to renew price wars in Kenya (something more than often and common in the industry), I would like to share our experience in value propositions definition around dynamic discount tariffing.

As explained before in our previous post related to what operators are doing with their excess of capacity, Safaricom has launched a tariff to allow its subscribers to have special discounts based on time of calling and location. This offer… Continue

Posted by Carlos Valdecantos on September 19, 2009 at 3:37pm

Carlos Valdecantos

Pricing optimization in Africa: the challenge!

I’ve just come from the middle east, visiting different markets where we’ve seen huge pricing competition battles among operators. One of my clients requested my point of view on pricing and how to fight in such a pricing war. Here it is.

Few levers have as much power to influence profitability as pricing does. For a typical company, a 1 percent increase in price boosts profits two to three times as much as a 1 percent increase in sales volume. Mobile operators have to improve both pricing stra… Continue

Posted by Carlos Valdecantos on September 18, 2009 at 1:33pm

Prince Bubacarr A.Sankanu

You are all invited to join the historic Pan African Telecom Museum (PATM) initiative

INTRODUCING THE PAN AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS MUSEUM

Dear Sirs and Mesdames,

We the African Council for Arts & Culture (ACFAC) are a registered Panafrican cultural development organisation based in Germany.

To help commemorate the development of telecommunications in Africa, we are promoting the PAN AFRICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS MUSEUM (PATM). This museum will showcase the development of wireless communication in Africa from the talking drum to the latest device.

There shall also be perman… Continue

Posted by Prince Bubacarr A.Sankanu on September 10, 2009 at 10:59pm — 4 Comments

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