Bushnet

-Project status: Active
-Sectors: For-profit Activity
-Funding source: Private Investment Funded | International Agency Funded
-Location of project: Uganda | Sub-Saharan Africa
-Project type: Telecommunications and IT Activity

Managing Organization: Academy for Educational Development (AED)

Managing Organization URL:
http://www.bushnet.net


Contact Name: Matthew Rudd

Contact Phone: 256 31 225 200

Contact Address: P.O. Box 22849, Kampala, Uganda


Activity URL:
http://www.bushnet.net


Affiliated Organizations: Media Trust, USAID


Related URLs:
http://www.mediatrust.org/, http://www.usaid.gov/


Activity Description: Bushnet, a private limited company, provides wireless communication and information access across Uganda. Begun in 1996, the company implements a profitable and sustainable model by which it subsidizes wireless services to the poor by providing valuable services to local micro-finance institutions, banks, NGOs and multinational corporations. Bushnet's Wireless Highspeed Data Network, dubbed Ten by Ten for its extensiveness, services schools, health clinics, and poor communities throughout Uganda. The company, an expansion of a pilot project begun by the Academy for Educational Development, has developed a detailed business plan for future service delivery throughout East Africa. Bushnet plans to see a dramatic cost reduction of landing Internet as well as highly profitable service delivery.

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