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MTN GhanaWACS & MTN Group’s Investment in Submarine Cable Systems to offer
Draft 1 – January 004
Submarine Cable Systems to offer Broadband and International Connectivity
Eben AlbertynCTO, MTN Ghana28 August 2009
• WACS Submarine Cable • System Configuration• Supply Contract• Route Plan and Landings• Fibre Pair Configuration• Powering of the System
Agenda
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• Powering of the System• Advantages of the 4 Fibre Pairs• Critical Project Milestones• List of Landing Parties
• MTN Group investment in Cable Systems
WACS System configuration
LONDON
United Kingdom
Portugal
• 5.12 Tbit system• C&MA and Supply
Agreement signature April 2009
• RFS date: 2Q 2011• MTN requested to
Canary Islands
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South Africa
Ivory Coast
Ghana Nigeria
Cameroon
DRC
Angola
Namibia
• MTN requested to operate landing stations in:
– Ghana– Côte d’Ivoire– Nigeria– Cameroon– Assistance to Congo
TogoCongo
Cape Verde
Supply Contract Details
• Estimated Timeline:– Supply contracts signed 08 April 2009– Supply Contract In Force 25 May 2009– Provisional Acceptance May 2011– Ready For Commercial Service June 2011
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• Constraints to the Plan of Work:– Permitting– Cable Station Availability– Cable & Equipment Manufacturing and Assembly
WACS Route Plan and LandingsLondon
United Kingdom
Portugal
Canary Islands
Total length: 14,530kmTotal length: 14,530km(SA (SA –– Portugal)Portugal)
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South Africa
Ivory Coast
Nigeria
Cameroon
DRC
Angola
Namibia
CongoTogo
CapeVerde
Ghana
4 Fibre Pair Configuration
South Africa
Namibia Nigeria
Portugal
Angola CameroonCongo Togo Ghana Canary ICape VIvory CDRC
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Express (128 wl – 1.28 Tbit/s)
Semi-Express 1 (128 wl – 1.28 Tbit/s)
Omnibus (160 wl – 1.6 Tbit/s, effectively 128 wl – 1.28 Tbit/s)
Semi-Express 2 (128 wl – 1.28 Tbit/s)
Initial capacity: 400 – 500 Gbit/sDesign capacity: 5.12 Tbit/s
Powering of the System
Un-powered cable section
BU1 BU2 BU3 BU5 BU6
BU7
BU8 BU9 BU10 BU11PFE
12KV
South Africa
PFE12KV
Portugal
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Angola
PFE12KV
Nigeria Ghana
Cape Verde
PFE3KV
PFE3KV
PFE12KV
Advantages of 4 fibre pair configuration
• Capacity of the system is enhanced• Low cost to upgrade• Enable direct access• Restoration of Traffic• Improve resilience (intermediate landing stations have
access to different fibre pairs)
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access to different fibre pairs)• Improve latency• Better flexibility
– with upgrades (more focused based on market)– Reduce bottle-necks and therefore reduced congestion– More routing options– Better interconnect with other cables
Critical Project Milestones
• Application of system license or Landing Party License if such license is necessary
• Confirmation of landing site with Alcatel
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• Landing station land acquisition
• Landing station construction permit
• Landing station readiness in 2Q – 3Q 2010
List of Landing Point PartiesCountry Landing Party
South Africa Telkom
Namibia Telecom Namibia
Angola Angola Telecom & Angola Cables
DRC Vodacom
Congo Sotelco
Cameroon MTN
Nigeria MTN
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Nigeria MTN
Togo Togo Telecom
Ghana MTN
Ivory Coast MTN
Cape Verde Cape Verde Telecom & PTC
Canary Islands Vodafone Spain
Portugal Tata Communications
UK Tata Communications
UK POP C&W
Operation of Landing Station subject to all required local regulations and approvals
• WACS Submarine Cable • System Configuration• Supply Contract• Route Plan and Landings• Fibre Pair Configuration• Powering of the System
Agenda
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• Powering of the System• Advantages of the 4 Fibre Pairs• Critical Project Milestones• List of Landing Parties
• MTN Group investment in Cable Systems
EIG• Ready 2Q2010• 2.88Tbit/s capacity• MTN has approx 8%
MTN Group Invested in 4 Submarine Cable Systems(SAT-3/SAFE; EASSy; EIG & WACS)
TEAMs• Ready Sept.2009• 2.88Tbit/s capacity
MTN network cross-connect points between submarine cables and PoP locations
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EASSy• Ready 2Q2010 (post-FIFA)• 1.4Tbit/s capacity system• MTN has approx. 16%
• IRU capacity (indirect) ownership on SAT-3/SAFE• Direct ownership in EASSy, EIG & WACS with x5 MTN Opcos to operate Cable Landing Stations
• Multiple cross-connect points btw systems to create “Y’ello Africa Fiber Ring”
SAT-3-SAFE• Operational (max 320 Gbit/s) • MTN purchased 10m MIU/km (approx 10Gbit/s)
WACS• Ready 2Q2011• 5.12Tbit/s capacity• 500 Gbit/s initial capacity• MTN has approx 12%
• 2.88Tbit/s capacity• MTN has approx 8%
• WACS Submarine Cable • System Configuration• Supply Contract• Route Plan and Landings• Fibre Pair Configuration• Powering of the System
Agenda
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• Powering of the System• Advantages of the 4 Fibre Pairs• Critical Project Milestones• List of Landing Parties
• MTN Group investment in Cable Systems
• Overview of Cable Investments
Overview of MTN’s Submarine Cable Investments
EASSy EIG SAT-3/ SAFE WACS
System Name East Africa Submarine Cable System Europe India Gateway SAT-3/ SAFE/ WASC West Africa Cable System
Configuration SA (Mtunzini) - Madagascar/ Moroni - East Africa - Sudan London - Egypt - UAE - India Portugal- West Africa – SA (Melkbos
and Mtunzini) - India – Malaysia UK - West Africa - SA (Yzerfontein)
LandingsSA, Mozambique, Madagascar,
Moroni, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti & Sudan
UK, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, France, Egypt, Djibouti, Saudi
Arabia, Oman, UAE, India
Portugal, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon,
Gabon, Angola, South Africa, Reunion, Mauritius, India, Malaysia
South Africa, Namibia, Angola, DRC, Congo-B, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Canary Islands,
Portugal, UK
Total System Cost approx $260m approx $600m n/a approx $600m
System Capacity (design) 1.38 Tb/s 2.88 Tb/s n/a 5.12 Tb/s
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(design) 1.38 Tb/s 2.88 Tb/s n/a 5.12 Tb/s
Initial Capacity 30 Gb 317 Gb n/a up to 11%
Ready Date mid-2010 2H 2010 Operational 2H 2011
MTN's Investment $40.3m $50m >$10m $90m, Plus the build of 5 Cable Stations
MTN's Initial Capacity 5.2 Gb 50 Gb
(available btw London and Djibouti) avg 1.5 Gb (half-circuit) 70 Gb
MTN's Design Capacity 200 Gb 205 Gb n/a 587 Gb
MTN Regions Serviced by cable SEA Region SEA & MENA Regions WECA & SEA Regions SEA & WECA & MENA Regions
MTN Landings on the System none none n/a Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire
and Congo-B (via JV with SOTELCO)
MTN Leadership Roles Chair Management Committee Co-Chair Several Committees n/a Co-chair Several Committees
Thank You
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Any Questions?
Open Access
• Open Access policy applicable in each of the landing countries ensures that any of the Operator Investors can trade to any and all appropriately licensed vendors, allowed to procure such International capacity, in each of the countries where the cable lands.
• Open Access on Backhaul providers through non-discriminating co-locations to allow domestic operators unfettered access to the cable stations. This is achieved by ensuring no access restriction is applied to any appropriately licensed domestic operator, in a landing country, from
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appropriately licensed domestic operator, in a landing country, from accessing the system through the landing station, operated by the WACS landing party or its representative, in order to gain access to its capacity purchased from any WACS party.
• No prescriptions or dictate on pricing of the capacity to be sold in markets. Market pricing is left to commercial market driver and is subject to open competition (inherently enshrined and encouraged in the system) as well as against alternative market capacity providers
WACS Parties ownership
11.8%
11.8%9.8%
10.3% 3.3%3.3%
Angola Telecom
C&W
Infraco
MTN
PTC
Tata Telecommunications
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11.8%
11.8%6.5%9.8%9.8%
Tata Telecommunications
Telecom Namibia
Telkom
Vodacom
Togo Telecom
Sotelco
• Initial South African participation is 43.7%• As cable expansions take place this will reduce to less than 35%