Technology Analysis
Africa Analysis is a Research and Analysis Consulting House. Since our inception in 2002, we have completed numerous projects in the ICT and xTech sectors across the African markets.
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Africa Analysis is a Research and Analysis Consulting House. Since our inception in 2002, we have completed numerous projects in the ICT and xTech sectors across the African markets.
Africa Analysis provides technical and technology consulting services to its clients. The range of services include the following:
• IT services specification, deployment and service costing
• Network audits
• Network design, specification and costing
• WAN network design and costing
This study was undertaken to gauge the potential feasibility, in terms of traffic volumes and revenues generated, of developing a regional terrestrial telecommunications network, spanning the 23 East and Southern African countries.
The project required a demand analysis of the regional international traffic that had as its output a forecast of regional traffic and associated revenues. The results of the pre-feasibility study led the client to launch a full feasibility study of the conceptualised network.
Africa Analysis was appointed to undertake an audit of the network assets following the acquisition of a mobile operator in North Africa.
The project required extensive in-country travel as each mobile base station was visited, an asset register established, and each asset logged and cross-referenced against the existing asset register. The asset information was compiled and used to validate the capital asset register.
This project consisted of a technology analysis of CDMA deployment for limited mobility service application. This analysis was undertaken for a Southern African country mobile operator who required an assessment of the technology, the ability of a fixed line operator to deploy that technology and the likely services that technology could support.
The analysis required a detailed technical comparative analysis between CDMA and GSM. The resultant output provided the client with an understanding of the technological and market capabilities of CDMA, and the possibility of using such a technology by a fixed line operator to compete in the portability / limited mobility segment of the market. Consequently, the client was able to develop his own counteractive strategy.
