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September/October 2007

Alieu Conteh

How an African entrepreneur put cell phones in Congo.

By Jason Pontin

Credit: Samantha Reinders

Alieu Conteh, the chairman of Vodacom Congo, created a mobile digital communications network in a country where none had existed. In 1999, when he launched what was then Congolese Wireless Network (CWN) with just 4,000 subscribers, his nation must have seemed hopelessly ill suited for any investment in technology.

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