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About AfriConnect Zambia Ltd 

AfriConnect Ltd. is an Internet service provider, the leading supplier of high-speed wireless broadband internet services in Zambia. Their main activities are: 

iConnect broadband internet service

iConnect is AfriConnect’s main product for providing wireless broadband Internet connectivity. We are able to provide connectivity to any facility throughout Zambia however, the costs, technology and timeline for delivery may vary depending on location and how the connectivity is used. We can currently deliver our regular iConnect service to within 30km of the following areas: Lusaka, Livingstone, Choma, Kitwe, Ndola, Solwezi, Namwala, Kabwe and Mongu. Many other Provincial and District capitals will be online before the end of the year.
See http://www.iconnect.zm for further details

Rural and Portable Connectivity 

AfriConnect can set up direct satellite access with a small 1.2 KUBand or CBand VSAT dish. In very remote rural areaVSATs such as Namwala, the AfriConnect VSAT serves the whole community via wireless connectivity to many users.

The company can also offer portable units suitable for medical researchers and other fieldworkers: a portable VSAT unit that uses GPS tracking to locate the nearest satellite for Internet connection. This type of connection has speeds of up to about 384kbps. Bandwidth use is charged per megabyte.
See http://www.namwala.com for further details

SMS information services

 AfriConnect’s iSMS team offers text-messaging services from entertainment to development and health projects. Examples include ‘push’ services (e.g. a clinic sending text messages in bulk to many patients) and ‘pull’ services (e.g. a rural farmer requesting information about commodity prices from a central database).
See http://www.isms.zm for further details

Website Design

 The website design team of local and international web designers who can design a website to suit your needs. Examples of the team’s work include the links below: 
 

zocs site

Zambia Open Community Schools

widnet site Women's Information for Development Network
zamag safari site ZAMAG Tours and Safaris

 

See http://www.africonnect.co.zm for further details