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Friday, July 10 2020 - 23:24
AsiaNet
AMN Passes Milestone of 1 Billion Phone Calls Per Year
LONDON, July 10, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) is pleased to announce that it now processes more 
than 1 billion phone calls annually for subscribers in previously unconnected 
rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In June 2020, AMN processed 91,623,222 voice calls, representing an annualised 
rate of 1.1 billion calls per annum, plus also nearly 6 terabytes (6,000 GB) of 
data. These services are provided to rural users in Sub-Saharan Africa who 
previously were mostly unconnected before AMN's investment in the mobile 
network infrastructure. AMN now owns and operates approximately 1,200 base 
stations serving a population of 4 million people in 8 countries: Nigeria, DRC, 
Cameroon, Guinea, Zambia, Bissau, Liberia and Congo. The 2G/3G/4G mobile 
network services are provided by AMN on behalf of tier-1 licensed mobile 
network operators in each country.

AMN is installing new base stations at a rate of about 200 per month and by the 
end of 2020 will have nearly 2,000 base stations. AMN ultimately aims to 
deliver mobile network services to over 60 million people in up to 30 countries 
with more than 20,000 base stations. AMN's solutions are 100% ubiquitous, 
without restrictions due to power or backhaul connectivity, and can be deployed 
at any location throughout the continent with no exceptions.

AMN's success has been built on ultra-low capex and opex solutions, and an 
innovative, fully-turnkey Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) commercial model, which 
enables AMN to deliver mobile network services economically to smaller 
communities than has ever been possible before. AMN is now able to serve 
communities as small as 500 people with long-term economic sustainability. All 
of the major pan-African tier-1 operators partner with AMN to extend their 
network coverage deep into rural Africa. AMN offers the turnkey NaaS model with 
both revenue-share and opex commercial models for the operator, where 
revenue-share means no opex risk as well as no capex investment for the 
operator and the opex model enables sites to be built at any location specified 
by the operator.

About AMN

Africa Mobile Networks, established in 2013, is headquartered in the UK with 
subsidiary operating companies in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. AMN's 
vision is for no community of any size in Africa to be without affordable 
access to essential voice and data telecommunication services. AMN's mission is 
to build more than 20,000 mobile network base stations, delivering 2G, 3G and 
4G (and later 5G) telecom services to previously-unconnected communities. AMN 
is backed by Intelsat, operator of the world's largest integrated satellite and 
terrestrial network, as an investor, shareholder and provider of access to 
high-quality and high-throughput satellite capacity across Africa. AMN enjoys a 
strong partnership with a global internet giant to accelerate the inclusion of 
3G/4G services to provide rural users with access to the same information and 
social media applications enjoyed by the rest of the world.

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Source: Africa Mobile Networks (AMN)
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