Connect Earth

Connect Earth is a specialised advisory and project development consultancy servicing the Telecommunications value chain Our primary driver is to help build, manage and monetise Internet access networks in order to stimulate economic and social change in unconnected and under serviced areas in Africa. We provide market context to those operators, of all types, sizes and locations that want to reach the African market. Internet access is approached by us as a means of distributing economic drivers, including; financial services, education, entertainment, market research, and product distribution, amongst others. We are technology agnostic and package the best of breed technology, software platforms and hardware, with commercial development and monetising models, and incubate access networks to reach our communities on behalf of clients. Clients include private networks, all levels of Government, solar utilities and infrastructure investors, MNO's, advertising agencies & retail operations, as well as commercial services that have public facing branches. The user community is the primary focus of our approach and we thus approach each project from the user's perspective taking their language, culture, location and social-economic conditions into account. Connect Earth’s leadership team brings 60 years of experience in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries, who have together forged the insights, IP and services that makes our business unique. We have a collaborative project philosophy and utilise, or are used by, our network of well established partners to deliver on project needs.