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Highlights from GPM’s South East Asia Working Group
Monday 13 August, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | East Asia and Pacific | Rural network coverage | Uncategorized
Last month, the GSMA Green Power for Mobile Programme hosted another successful South East Asia Regional Working Group in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. More than 30 delegates from mobile operators, vendors, energy service companies and development partner attended the event. The ...
Researching Fuel Cell Systems for Base Stations
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
Last summer, our intern Mark Crouch from Imperial College researched fuel cell systems, including the types of technologies available, the prevalence of their use, advantages and disadvantages at mobile base stations as well as technical and financial drivers. As well as an ...
Announcing our 3rd India Specific GPM Working Group
Thursday 22 March, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
We are pleased to announce that following the success of our last India Specific GSMA GPM Working Group in October 2011; our 3rd Indian Specific GSMA Green Power for Mobile Working Group has been confirmed to take place on the 13th April 2012 at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi. ...
GPM & CPM Highlights from MWC 2012
Friday 16 March, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Energy | Global | Sanitation | Spain | Water
What an incredible week in Barcelona – so much innovation presented, new contacts made and plans already in progress for next year! Green Power for Mobile and Community Power from Mobile certainly came away with many actions points and food for thought on how to move our ...
Bharti Infratel’s GreenTowers P7 Initiative
Tuesday 13 March, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
There are estimated 3.5 million base stations around world. Bharti Infratel is one of the largest telecom infrastructure providers, owning 35,000 of India’s some 400,000 towers and share-owners in Indus Towers, which adds a further 100,000. Together, they have been ...
Best Practice Procurement Guide for Green Energy in India – March 2012
Thursday 1 March, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
This is the revised version of our earlier published Best Practise Procurement Guide for Green Energy in India, to enhance market intelligence for the Indian mobile telecom industry, and is based on current intelligence of the Indian Market. Download here
Top Up for Energy Access
Friday 10 February, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Energy | Global | Rural network coverage
Global mobile market penetration reached over 80% of the population at the end of 2011. Limited in the past to developed markets and urban zones, the growth and benefits of mobile telephony is now reaching rural regions in emerging markets. In Africa and the Middle East, the ...
Connecting dollars and cents to watts
Friday 3 February, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Digital Utilities | Energy | Global | Rural network coverage
We sit at an interesting intersection between mobile giants and small enterprises trying to deliver energy access. Our role is to facilitate the mobile industry’s involvement in delivering energy access. In this role we spend a lot of time speaking to smart, nimble and ...
Infrastructure in Malawi
Friday 3 February, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Mali | Rural network coverage | Sub-Saharan Africa
Access to electricity and reliable transport remains a key challenge to economic growth; telecommunications presents strong growth opportunities The future economic growth of Malawi will predominantly be affected by the development of its key infrastructure sectors including ...
Green Power for Mobile and Mobile World Congress
Friday 3 February, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
Mobile World Congress is just weeks away and what a great agenda we have yet again this year! High profile key note speakers, insightful panel discussions, thousands of exhibitors and a world of innovation. 2012 also sees the year that the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...
Climate Change in India
Friday 3 February, 2012 | Blog | Connected Society | India | Rural network coverage | South Asia
There is possible no other country in the world that has a climate which is as varied as India’s. It ranges from very cold in the Himalayas, extreme heat in Rajasthan, wet in Cherrapunji, tropical in Kerala and lush with green in Punjab. Owing to this complex geography, the ...
The Green Deployment Tracker
Wednesday 7 December, 2011 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
Over the last 2 years, the GPM team have been working hard to populate and track the number of Green Deployments worldwide in order to promote green power and extend mobile beyond the grid. We have aimed to do this by catalysing the deployment of 118,000 sustainable green ...
Regional Working Group for India and South Asia
Wednesday 7 December, 2011 | Blog | Connected Society | India | Rural network coverage | South Asia
Our Regional Working Group for India and South Asia on the 11th October 2011 was a great success! Attended by over 40 organisations, the event hosted great discussion and shared knowledge in an increasingly growing market. Lessons learned from this session included: The ...
Welcome to the new Green Power for Mobile webpage
Tuesday 6 December, 2011 | Blog | Connected Society | Global
Welcome to the new Green Power for Mobile webpage. After months of hard work, we finally have a page which we hope will be educational and informative. We will be keeping this website live with up to date developments from the industry via our new blog, our reports, and case ...
World Economic Forum – Technology Pioneers of 2012!
Friday 2 September, 2011 | Blog | Connected Society | Global | Rural network coverage
Associate Member Electro PS has been selected by World Economic Forum as Technology Pioneers of 2012! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/electro-power-systems-selected-as-a-world-economic-forum-technology-pioneer-2012-2011-09-01