This New Statesman article profiles Mo Ibrahim who is the chairman of the fastest-growing mobile phone group in sub-Saharan African,Celtel.”Today Celtel has more than seven million customers, employs 3,500 staff and boasts 120,000 points of sale. While dwarfed by Vodacom and MTN, it is the only mobile network to see the poorest of the poor as its raison d’etre.Such figures leave vast room for expansion and may explain why in May the Kuwaiti mobile operator MTC bought Celtel for $3.4bn,yet left the company free to continue operating as a separate entity.Ibrahim, a pipe-smoking, compact ball of energy, aims to raise market penetration in Celtel’s target areas to 20 per cent by 2015.He enthuses over the opportunities represented by challenging countries such as poverty-stricken Ethiopia and war-scarred Angola.”Up till now everyone has focused on the cities, bypassing villages and hamlets. We want to focus on cut-off rural areas, which is why we are looking at solar energy.”The article says that “interestingly, he is sceptical about the other great change that has swept Africa in recent years: the internet. “Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa. SMS text messaging is replacing e-mail and, more and more, phones are carrying out the functions of the computer.”
Mr Mo Ibrahim
- October 20th, 2005
Comments
@ 04:43
I am a student of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University)studing Political Science. I just watched your interview with the BBC. I am sure your plan is good, but I would like to think about another way of helping Africa leadership and development. Africa need a change and such changes requires leaders of insight, brilliant intellects and dashing courage to help Africa. Please get in touch.
Ivan.
@ 11:52
I would like to get in touch with with Mo Ibrahim.He and I are friends who lost touch.
@ 05:40
Hi, my name Mumbi E Museba. I am a Zambian woman aged 36, I watched Mo Ibrahim on the BBC and I thought his simplcity in expressing himself is great. I would like to find out if there is any form of scholarships for young african boys and girls because I am a mother of two boys and I would like for them to be helped with their educational needs, in whatever form even if they have to make a contribution after by working at the foundation. I shall appreciate any responses.
thank you.
@ 05:55
mr mo ibrahim or mohammed fathi ebrahim
actualy you dont know me but i think my dad was your best frnd my dad is soliman abdeen othman
he had a many times of try to contact you but i think you busy
he want only to see you “old frnd”
rememmber to be reminder
@ 08:00
hi mo and alsalamu aleekom
am ahmed mo hamad (ttc inst.,eppco tec.man.)
its good to thing of yr home africa but i think the real solution is education.not univ graduates but tech institutins in all feilds. the first important feild is teatchers who will
learn our kids discipline ownsty and self confidance etc. so when they become governers they will behave.
and to yr prize i think all african leaders are welloff 5m.
@ 03:43
I would like to contact Mr.Mo EBRahim and exchange some views on the issue of good governance. please e-mail me back.I am from ethiopia.Bye for now.
@ 07:35
Hi
What Im asking for is the contact to mr.Mohammed Fathi Ibrahim who is I conceder him as an uncle the reason is the friend ship between him and my father can i get the contact please?
Thank you & best Regards
Mohammed S. Abdeen
@ 13:55
Alsalam Alikum. Iam Sudanese lady 27 years . I graduated from one of oldest Sudanese universities and doing my master in computer science at the same university. Now I doing as a lecture in my college. At the same time i have met Arabic professor in a conference who working at one of British universities. he promised me to be my supervisor in my PHD study and find acceptance from that university but I have finical problem so I cant pay the tuition fees and as it known it too cost in Britain and I failed to find a site that can support me financially so, I forget the matter of study in Brittan. Fortunately, I have heard a bout your foundation in helping African and particularly Sudanese students. now I want to know whom I can contact and how to find any kind of finical support or at least any form of scholarships for Sudanese girls. I shall appreciate any responses.
thank you.