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Service over Technology: Defining the Role for Mobile in Energy Access – CPM White Paper

Mobile for Development — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:44:22 +0000

While technology underpins the business models of Community Power from Mobile, ultimately the quality of the service to the customer is what creates success from the business model. This holds true whether an energy service company is a third party energy provider delivering to the mobile industry or a product provider selling solar home systems to rural dwellers: good technology is not enough.

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Mobile Enabled Community Services – Vendor Directory 2013

Mobile for Development — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:19:36 +0000

This is the first of two vendor catalogues to be published by the MECS programme in 2013. This catalogue looks at the energy access sector and will be updated mid-year by a second catalogue to include both energy and water services. Download … Continue reading →

Safaricom – Kenya – Feasibility Study

Mobile for Development — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:39:35 +0000

With the power of the Safaricom brand and coverage, there is potential through its network, retail channels and mobile payment service (M-PESA) to enable better phone charging facilities and other energy services, so stimulating economic activity in off-grid communities and delivering cost-savings to the network plus revenue uplift. The feasibility study has shown Safaricom to be well-positioned to explore outsourcing to third party energy service companies for power and security services, where community power is not in place.

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TNM – Malawi – Feasibility Study

Mobile for Development — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:05:41 +0000

The purpose of the feasibility study was to assess the viability of TNM’s network to provide modern energy services to off-grid communities in Malawi. GSMA’s Community Power from Mobile programme seeks to identify the opportunity and stimulate activity with solutions that are scalable and commercial.

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Unlocking a New Market: Ultra-Low-Cost M2M Opportunities and Barriers to a New Mobile Frontier

Mobile for Development — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:18:05 +0000

By Nick Hughes, M-KOPA.

M-KOPA believes that M2M services for customers represent a new frontier. There are challenges but there are no impregnable barriers. Principal amongst the challenges is the need to simplify the core M2M technology and reduce its costs to allow it to be used in a wide range of applications. This case study explores M2M services and presents some ideas for consideration by the M2M industry.

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Sustainable Energy & Water Access through M2M Connectivity

Mobile for Development — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:29:30 +0000

This paper aims to shed light on the opportunities created by M2M solutions to reach and empower underserved populations in the developing world. The emergence of new business models leveraging GSM connectivity for remote operation and monitoring is already helping tens of thousands of people gain access to more affordable and sustainable basic life services.

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GPM Bi-annual Report – January 2013

Mobile for Development — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:31:14 +0000

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GPM Bi-annual Report – July 2012

Mobile for Development — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:48:57 +0000

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Tower power saves lives

Mobile for Development — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:07:48 +0000

From New Scientist. Published 26 May 2012. Staff at Morganster Hospital, which serves a remote community in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province, used to sleep fitfully. If the power failed and a back-up generator was offline – common problems in the impoverished nation – they would have to jump out of bed and drive for 26 kilometres to stash their stock of life-saving vaccines in a fridge in the provincial capital. But those days are over, thanks to a pilot project that is testing a simple idea floated in the pages of New Scientist.

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Energy + Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2012

Abirami Birrell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:02:27 +0000

Energy is the backbone of the mobile industry: without it the mobile network would not exist and we could not turn on our mobile phones. Nowhere is this truer than in emerging markets, where mobile operators have become proficient at operating in areas of unreliable and nonexistent grid electricity.

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