Sierra Group is a 4th industrial revolution tech business. We consult, advise on and build digital communities, smart villages and Smart Cities.
Sierra Group is actively involved in all areas of telecommunications and technology, including new business creation, acquisitions, new market entry strategies, management of companies, and advisory services. Sierra Group, through its affiliate companies has a presence and partnership in 6 key markets in Africa namely South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.
Sierra Group is focused at the convergence of mass broadband access over WIFI initiatives, digital advertising and the proliferation of applications (APPs) space. We at Sierra Group believe that access to online services should be available to all, that Broadband access is the new utility.
Sierra Group was the founding partner and was management lead of Brightwave, a WIFI broadband access service business addressing the underserved community in Soweto township – ‘Brightwave Technologies (www.brightwave.co.za).
“Operators of all kinds – fixed, mobile, converged and pure-play Wi-Fi – are moving beyond using WiFi just for convenient access, or data offload, and are making it a central part of their broader strategies to support a high quality broadband experience everywhere.” (Excerpt from WBA Industry Report 2013: Global Trends in Public Wi-Fi p3)
Sierra Group is positioned at the forefront of this evolution and is aggressively expanding the deployment of “Free WIFI Hotspots” across the country and the rest of the continent.
Our Focus Deployments;
1. WIFI along Transport Corridors – WIFI deployment along transport corridors, within transportation vehicles i.e. Taxi’s, Buses, Cabs/Uber taxi cabs, Trains and along the main transport routes – Taxi ranks, Bus Stations, Train Stations and Cab Pickup points across the country (Commuters are an economically active segment of the population and have access to disposable income and need constant interaction on social, education and business levels).
2. WIFI to Homes – targeting medium income neighborhoods across Gauteng and the rest of the country. This will complement the current initiatives that are targeting Fibre to the Homes as the core strategy for extending high speed broadband to homes across South Africa
3. Carrier WIFI - development in partnership with GSM operators as a low risk approach for the development of WIFI as the primary data access platform for the mainstream telecom operators
4. Digital Advert, VAS and Smart APP Services – building smart applications and services over the basic infrastructure delivering real value and experiences to end users be they at home and or within the travel, work and city / metro environments in general.
Everyone. Everywhere. Connected.
"Free Online" - Free Internet Access Via Wifi brought to the masses.
