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Amsterdam - Palm and pumpkin seed oil could soon be generating electricity to help power mobile phone networks across Africa under a plan to replace fossil fuels with sustainable biofuels made from crops grown by local farmers.
Swedish telecoms networks group Ericsson and South African cellphone operator MTN said on Wednesday they want to start replacing diesel with biofuels in electricity generating stations powering mobile phone base stations in rural Africa.
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"We're planning to replicate this in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. India and Bangladesh have also expressed interest," “The early adoption of biofuel-powered mobile networks would place Africa at the forefront of a new wave of innovation,” Karel Pienaar, chief technology officer at MTN |
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