MTN Ghana

WACS & MTN Groups Investment in Submarine Cable Systems to offer Broadband and International Connectivity

Eben Albertyn CTO, MTN Ghana 28 August 2009

Draft 1 January 004

Agenda
WACS Submarine Cable
System Configuration Supply Contract Route Plan and Landings Fibre Pair Configuration Powering of the System 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

Canary Islands

Cape Verde

Ghana

Nigeria Cameroon

Ivory Coast

Togo Congo DRC Angola

5.12 Tbit system C&MA and Supply Agreement signature April 2009 RFS date: 2Q 2011 MTN requested to operate landing stations in:
Ghana Cte dIvoire Nigeria Cameroon Assistance to Congo

Namibia

South Africa

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Supply Contract Details

Estimated Timeline:
Supply contracts signed Supply Contract In Force Provisional Acceptance Ready For Commercial Service 08 April 2009 25 May 2009 May 2011 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

Total length: 14,530km

(SA Portugal)

Portugal

Canary Islands

Cape Verde

Nigeria Cameroon Ivory Coast Togo Ghana Congo DRC

Angola

Namibia

South Africa

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4 Fibre Pair Configuration

South Africa Portugal

Namibia

Angola

DRC

Congo

Cameroon

Nigeria

Togo

Ghana

Ivory C

Cape V

Canary I

Express (128 wl 1.28 Tbit/s) Semi-Express 1 (128 wl 1.28 Tbit/s) Semi-Express 2 (128 wl 1.28 Tbit/s) Omnibus (160 wl 1.6 Tbit/s, effectively 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

PFE 12KV
South Africa

BU1

BU2

BU3

BU5

BU6

BU8

BU9

BU10

BU11

PFE 12KV
Portugal

BU7

PFE 3KV

PFE 3KV

Angola

Cape Verde

PFE 12KV
Nigeria

PFE 12KV
Ghana

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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 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

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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

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List of Landing Point Parties

Country South Africa Namibia Angola DRC Congo Cameroon Nigeria Togo Ghana Ivory Coast Cape Verde Canary Islands Portugal UK UK POP Landing Party Telkom Telecom Namibia Angola Telecom & Angola Cables Vodacom Sotelco MTN MTN Togo Telecom MTN MTN Cape Verde Telecom & PTC Vodafone Spain Tata Communications Tata Communications C&W

Operation of Landing Station subject to all required local regulations and approvals
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Agenda
WACS Submarine Cable
System Configuration Supply Contract Route Plan and Landings Fibre Pair Configuration Powering of the System Advantages of the 4 Fibre Pairs Critical Project Milestones List of Landing Parties

MTN Group investment in Cable Systems

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MTN Group Invested in 4 Submarine Cable Systems

(SAT-3/SAFE; EASSy; EIG & WACS) EIG
MTN network cross-connect points between submarine cables and PoP locations

Ready 2Q2010 2.88Tbit/s capacity MTN has approx 8%

Ready Sept.2009 2.88Tbit/s capacity MTN has approx 8%

TEAMs

Ready 2Q2011 5.12Tbit/s capacity 500 Gbit/s initial capacity MTN has approx 12%

WACS

Ready 2Q2010 (post-FIFA) 1.4Tbit/s capacity system MTN has approx. 16%

EASSy

Operational (max 320 Gbit/s) MTN purchased 10m MIU/km (approx 10Gbit/s)

SAT-3-SAFE

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
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Agenda
WACS Submarine Cable
System Configuration Supply Contract Route Plan and Landings Fibre Pair Configuration Powering of the System Advantages of the 4 Fibre Pairs Critical Project Milestones List of Landing Parties

MTN Group investment in Cable Systems Overview of Cable Investments

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Overview of MTNs Submarine Cable Investments

EASSy
System Name Configuration East Africa Submarine Cable System SA (Mtunzini) - Madagascar/ Moroni - East Africa - Sudan SA, Mozambique, Madagascar, Moroni, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti & Sudan approx $260m 1.38 Tb/s 30 Gb mid-2010 $40.3m 5.2 Gb 200 Gb SEA Region none

EIG
Europe India Gateway London - Egypt - UAE - India

SAT-3/ SAFE
SAT-3/ SAFE/ WASC Portugal- West Africa SA (Melkbos and Mtunzini) - India Malaysia

WACS
West Africa Cable System UK - West Africa - SA (Yzerfontein)

Landings Total System Cost System Capacity (design) Initial Capacity Ready Date MTN's Investment MTN's Initial Capacity MTN's Design Capacity MTN Regions Serviced by cable MTN Landings on the System

Portugal, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, South Africa, Namibia, Angola, DRC, UK, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-B, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, France, Egypt, Djibouti, Saudi Gabon, Angola, South Africa, Reunion, Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, Canary Islands, Arabia, Oman, UAE, India Mauritius, India, Malaysia Portugal, UK approx $600m 2.88 Tb/s 317 Gb 2H 2010 $50m 50 Gb (available btw London and Djibouti) 205 Gb SEA & MENA Regions none Co-Chair Several Committees n/a n/a n/a Operational >$10m avg 1.5 Gb (half-circuit) n/a WECA & SEA Regions n/a n/a approx $600m 5.12 Tb/s up to 11% 2H 2011 $90m, Plus the build of 5 Cable Stations 70 Gb 587 Gb SEA & WECA & MENA Regions Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Congo-B (via JV with SOTELCO) Co-chair Several Committees

MTN Leadership Chair Management Committee Roles

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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 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 colocations 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 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

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WACS Parties ownership

Angola Telecom C&W Infraco 10.3% 3.3% 9.8% 9.8% 9.8% 6.5% 11.8% 3.3% 11.8% 11.8% 11.8% MTN PTC 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%
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