Below is the full description of the achievement of ICT Project of the year Public Sector award winner, NetOne. The text has been posted here unedited.
Solar Powered Base Stations in Rural Area
Project Impact
Project Innovation
The innovation is that there are huge power outages in the country owing to a low capacity in power generation by ZESA. As a result most base stations lost connectivity for days on end. NetOne then came up with solar powered base stations and reaching out the the rural communities generally with reduced tariffs packaged in a product called Home Zone Billing. This is where a cluster of people who are registered to one base station call call a selected people at a lower tariff.
You can click the links below to read achievements by the other winners of Zimbabwe ICT 2010 Achievers Awards:
ICT Company of the Year: Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
ICT Businessman of the Year: Douglas Mboweni
ICT Businesswoman of the Year: Rudo Mudavanhu
ICT Journalist of the Year: Mqhele Tshuma