A session that looks at what governments can do to create an inductive environment to attract inward investment and increase operations of MNOs and other service providers in their country

1. Ensuring all Africans have
meaningful access to high
speed connectivity

2. Agenda
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1. The State of Connectivity in Africa
2. High speed connectivity to accelerate economic transformation
3. Innovate to accelerate the roll-out of high speed connectivity
4. Readiness and relevance challenges are still critical

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Give people the
power to build
community and
bring the world
closer together
Bring internet access
to the remaining
3.2 billion people who
are not yet connected
Note: All slides are under NDA

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The Internet Has Become A
Crucial Tool For Improving
Livelihoods
74%
77%
60%
Discover new job
opportunities
Learn job related skills
Pursue an education

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GLOBAL ACCESS IS IMPROVING 4G CONNECTIONS ARE
INCREASING
57% 43% 59%
TO
INDIVIDUALS CONNECTED
TO THE INTERNET
PERCENTAGE OF 4G CONNECTIONS
WORLDWIDE BY 2025
Source: ITU, Internet Inclusivity Index 2021, Economist Intelligence Unit

6. Some Metrics on the State of Connectivity in Africa
Sources: Internet Inclusivity Index 2021, Economist Intelligence Unit

7. Forecasted 5G Subscriptions by 2026
Sources: Quartz, Ericsson Mobility Report

8. The African Development Bank’s High 5 priority areas for
transforming Africa are dependent on high-speed connectivity
Sources: African Development Bank, The Tony Blair Institute

9. Connecting all Africans
through Innovation
Policy and Regulation innovation
● Spectrum Policy e.g. 6Ghz and 60GHz
● Community Broadband Networks
● Custom waivers or tax rebates for
network infrastructure and smart
devices
● Telecom Regulatory Sandboxes
Business Model Innovation
● NaaS
● Co-investing to deploy Shared Fibre
Infrastructure
● Satellite Wifi
Technology Innovation:
● Telecom Infra Project
● Open RAN
We require innovation in policy and
regulation, business models, and
technology to ensure all Africans have
access to high-speed connectivity
● Policy and regulation innovation to
attract more investment in
connectivity infrastructure
● Business model innovation to enable
service providers share resources
and bring down the costs of
deploying and operating networks
● Technology innovation to transform
the traditional ways of rolling out
networks to more open
disaggregated networks

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Spectrum policy Is key to
high speed connectivity
growth in SSA
We advocate to maximize the use of
licensed spectrum and to create
more unlicensed spectrum.
We are also excited to see the
potential of shared spectrum use
cases.

11. Updating the 60 GHz Framework across SSA
Regulation
EU Decision 2019/1345
ERC Recommendation 70-03, Annex 3
Reports
ECC Report 288
CEPT Report 78
Standards
EN 302 567
EN 303 722
EN 303 753
African Telecommunications Union
Recommendation
ATU-R Recommendation 005-0.
The 60 GHz Band (57-71 GHz) - EU SRD Framework and ATU Recommendation
Facebook encourages African Administration to open the 57-71 GHz band to license-exempt devices and align its
technical conditions with those in categories 75, 75a or 75b of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1345 cases,
including IMT in 66-71 GHz, in line with decisions of other regulators in Region 1. Should African Regulators favour
another regulatory approach in 66-71 GHz, they should at least open 57-66 GHz to license-exempt devices, in line with
ATU-R Recommendation 005-0.

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2Africa
23
Countries
343M
People
Covered
37,000
Kilometers
28
Open Access
Landing Stations
180Tbps
Capacity
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CD - Dem. Rep. of Congo
CG - Rep. of the Congo
CI - Ivory Coast
DJ - Djibouti
EG - Egypt
ES - Spain
FR - France
GA - Gabon
GB - United Kingdom
GH - Ghana
IT - Italy
KE - Kenya
MG - Madagascar
MZ - Mozambique
NG - Nigeria
OM - Oman
PT - Portugal
SA - Saudi Arabia
SD - Sudan
SN - Senegal
SO - Somalia
TZ - Tanzania
ZA - South Africa
32
Countries
45,000
Kilometers
42
Open Access Landing
Stations
180 Tbps
Capacity
2Africa is the most comprehensive subsea fiber optic cable project to serve the
African continent.

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14. The TIP Community is working together to innovate future
networks to advance high speed connectivity

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Why OPENRAN?
OpenRAN addresses the challenges to achieving
greater, higher-quality connectivity
• Democratise the
supply chain to
advance
connectivity
• Accelerate
innovation
towards high
speed connectivity
• Improve network
economics to
expand networks
more efficiently
FROM: Single-vendor, fully
integrated RAN
TO: Multi-vendor, disaggregated
interoperable RAN

16. We still need to address the relevance and readiness
challenges to fully harness the opportunities resulting
from high speed connectivity

17. Thank you