“Across the world, wireless technologies are helping service providers break through traditional access barriers in rural areas to bring consumers in these areas into the digital fold. I-HSPA allows the benefits of broadband and wireless access to be combined and extended as a robust service, “said Richard Kitts, customer business team head at Nokia Siemens Networks.

He added: “It also brings significant operational benefits to service providers and is thus the right choice for initiatives such as this.”
Rural areas, particularly in Africa have lagged behind over the years in terms of ICT infrastructure.

Nokia Siemens Networks is the forerunner in flat architecture solutions with its I-HSPA, Direct Tunnel and LTE platforms, helping operators to increase the efficiency of the mobile broadband networks, to cope with data explosion by lowering cost per gigabyte and to effectively serve their subscribers’ needs and covering new areas and customer segments.