Presentation

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


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


• 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)


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


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


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)


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


• 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


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


Agenda




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


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%


Agenda




• 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


(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


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


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


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%

Presentation

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