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MTNGhanaWACS & MTN Groups Investment in

Draft 1 January 004

Broadband and International Connectivity

Eben AlbertynCTO, MTN Ghana

28 August 2009

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WACS Submarine Cable System Configuration

Supply Contract

Route Plan and Landings

Fibre Pair Configuration

Agenda

2008 Mobile Telephone Networks. All rights reserved.

Advantages of the 4 Fibre Pairs

Critical Project Milestones

List of Landing Parties

MTN Group investment in Cable Systems

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WACS System configuration

LONDON

United Kingdom

Portugal

5.12 Tbit system C&MA and Supply

Agreement signature

April 2009

RFS date: 2Q 2011

Canary Islands


South Africa

Ivory Coast

Ghana Nigeria

Cameroon

DRC

Angola

Namibia

reques e o

operate landing stations

in: Ghana

Cte dIvoire

Nigeria

Cameroon

Assistance to Congo

Togo

Congo

Cape Verde

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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


Constraints to the Plan of Work: Permitting

Cable Station Availability

Cable & Equipment Manufacturing and Assembly

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WACS Route Plan and Landings

London

United Kingdom

Portugal

Canary

Islands

Total length: 14,530kmTotal length: 14,530km(SA(SA Portugal)Portugal)


South Africa

Ivory Coast

Nigeria

Cameroon

DRC

Angola

Namibia

CongoTogo

Cape

Verde

Ghana

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4 Fibre Pair Configuration

South Africa

Namibia Nigeria

Portugal

Angola CameroonCongo Togo Ghana Canary ICape VIvory CDRC


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/s

Design capacity: 5.12 Tbit/s

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Powering of the System

Un-powered cable section

BU1 BU2 BU3 BU5 BU6

BU7

BU8 BU9 BU10 BU11

PFE

12KV

South Africa

PFE

12KV

Portugal


Angola

PFE

12KV

Nigeria Ghana

Cape Verde

PFE3KV

PFE3KV

PFE

12KV

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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


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

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Application of system license or Landing Party License ifsuch license is necessary

Confirmation of landing site with Alcatel


Landing station land acquisition

Landing station construction permit

Landing station readiness in 2Q 3Q 2010

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List of Landing Point PartiesCountry Landing Party

South Africa Telkom

Namibia Telecom Namibia

Angola Angola Telecom & Angola Cables

DRC Vodacom

Congo Sotelco

Cameroon MTN


ger a

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

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Supply Contract



Agenda






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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

MTN network

cross-connectpoints between

submarine cables

and PoP locations


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 Yello 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%

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Supply Contract



Agenda






Overview of Cable Investments

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Overview of MTNs Submarine Cable Investments

EASSy EIG SAT-3/ SAFE WACS

System Name East Africa Submarine CableSystem

Europe India Gateway SAT-3/ SAFE/ WASC West Africa Cable System

ConfigurationSA (Mtunzini) - Madagascar/

Moroni - East Africa - SudanLondon - Egypt - UAE - India

Portugal- West Africa SA (Melkbos

and Mtunzini) - India MalaysiaUK - West Africa - SA (Yzerfontein)

Landings

SA, 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 Capacity1.38 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

Capacity5.2 Gb

50 Gb

(available btw London and Djibouti)avg 1.5 Gb (half-circuit) 70 Gb

MTN's Design

Capacity200 Gb 205 Gb n/a 587 Gb

MTN Regions

Serviced by cableSEA Region SEA & MENA Regions WECA & SEA Regions SEA & WECA & MENA Regions

MTN Landings on

the Systemnone none n/a

Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire

and Congo-B (via JV with SOTELCO)

MTN Leadership

RolesChair Management Committee Co-Chair Several Committees n/a Co-chair Several Committees

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Thank You


Any Questions?

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Open Access

Open Access policy applicable in each of the landing countries ensures thatany of the Operator Investors can trade to any and all appropriatelylicensed vendors, allowed to procure such International capacity, in each ofthe countries where the cable lands.

Open Access on Backhaul providers through non-discriminating co-

locations to allow domestic operators unfettered access to the cablestations. This is achieved by ensuring no access restriction is applied to any


appropriately licensed domestic operator, in a landing country, fromaccessing the system through the landing station, operated by the WACSlanding party or its representative, in order to gain access to its capacitypurchased 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 opencompetition (inherently enshrined and encouraged in the system) as well asagainst alternative market capacity providers

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WACS Parties ownership

11.8%

11.8%9.8%

10.3% 3.3%3.3%

Angola Telecom

C&W

Infraco

MTN

PTC


11.8%

11.8%6.5%9.8%

9.8%

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%

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