Determined to take communications to the unreached, pressured to find a working solution to the energy crisis hitting most developing countries, the GSMA, global body for mobile operators last week, launched the Green Power for Mobile programme with the goal of helping the mobile industry use renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, or sustainable biofuels, to power 118,000 new and existing off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012...Especially in Nigeria where mobile operators have also become the biggest independent private power providers, IPPs, this is very good news as provides the mystery solution to a problem that troubled the industry since inception seven years ago. This perhaps explains why a key Nigerian operator, MTN, is a participant in the renewable energy project...[continue reading]
via African Path
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