WCA September 2013

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Solar goes to school in Tanzania and Uganda ❍ Donation ceremony at Ryakasinga Model Primary Boarding School in Bushenyi, Uganda

During the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V) in Japan, the Japanese Government pledged 3.2 trillion yen of public and private assistance to Africa over the next five years and stressed the importance of private sector investment. Kyocera believes in the great possibilities of the young generation in Africa and hopes that its donations in Tanzania and Uganda will help further the education of students who carry the future of the countries on their shoulders. Kyocera’s representative at the donation ceremonies, youichi Higashi, manager of the business planning department in the corporate solar energy group, said: “The value of electricity is difficult to understand in countries where power access is always available.” Kyocera Corporation – Japan Website : www.kyocera.com

600-watt solar power generating systems for 35 schools in total. With additional installations at seven schools in the last fiscal year, donations have already been made to a total of 28 schools, with seven more to follow by March 2014. The solar systems are also occasionally used as an electricity source for the local community to charge mobile devices.

KYOCERA Corporation has donated solar power generating systems to four secondary schools in Tanzania and three primary schools in Uganda. The installations are part of larger projects in which Kyocera has been providing solar power generating systems to schools with no access to the electricity grid. The five-year projects consist of

Freedom Cable pulls out of Australia extension Freedom Cable has cancelled the proposed extension to Australia of its subsea fibre optic cable, after failing to secure necessary financial backing. The change of plan comes only seven weeks after the extension idea was first proposed by entrepreneur and bandwidth brokerage company chief Sunil Tagare. Mr Tagare said that his venture had been seeking a $50 million investment from Telstra in return for 3TBPS of capacity on the cable, but that Telstra had declined. Freedom Cable – Australia

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Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2013