powered
BY THE SUN
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ow can people recharge their mobile At a specially constructed solar station world. The market potential is huge, as
phone batteries in places that lack (OSRAM Energy Hub), local people in the 1.6 billion people throughout the world
electricity? Solar energy provides one town of Mbita can recharge batteries for live without electricity.
solution. energy-saving lamps, luminaires and other Three further energy hubs in Kenya
Nokia recently cooperated with lamp and electrical appliances, such as mobile phones, and Uganda are about to open. The pilot
light system maker OSRAM and Solarworld at low cost and without damaging the envi- energy hubs have water treatment sys-
AG in launching a unique project in a small ronment. tems with integrated UV lamps of OSRAM
fishing village near Lake Victoria, Kenya for The OSRAM Energy Hub’s use of sunlight at their disposal. ■
recharging batteries that is not dependent at the primary energy source makes the
on a permanent power supply. project easily replicable in other parts of the
3 billion
gsm milestone
Photo: Matton
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ccording to the GSM Association, month; India (193 million), growing at six rich media access in more than 73 countries
the total connections to GSM mobile million per month and Russia (178 million) today, says the GSM Association. ■
communications networks have now and Brazil (93 million). Emerging markets
passed the three billion mark globally. The are responsible for 85 percent of new con-
world’s biggest GSM markets today are China nections. This GSM milestone coincides with
(509 million), which is growing at a rate of the expanded use of mobile broadband Source: GSMA press release, dated April 16,
more than seven million new connections a services offering high speed internet and 2008 available at
www.gsmworld.com
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