• Progressive telecom tools are linked with business development globally.graph with world map image by Attila Toro from Fotolia.com
  
  Progressive telecommunication tools take a number of forms. Some are designed to deal with the increased capacity and capabilities of regional markets, others with providing basic services such as business and social networking to regions that have limited Internet access and computer resources. These tools have won awards and promised to radicalize the way networking is handled in developing nations, as well as aided in provided basic telecommunication services in progressive ways.
  
  

Hylas-1

• Hylas-1 is a progressive telecommunications tool developed in partnership by the European Space Agency and British telecom company Avanti Communications. It is a satellite that launched into space on Nov. 26, 2010. The satellite was designed such that the bandwidth, frequency and output power of its communications payload can be adjusted from earth to adapt to new markets and telecommunications developments throughout Europe. Hylas-1 has eight spot beams for major European markets. These beams have components for television and broadband services.
  
  

Sibesonke Service

• Communications organization AfricaCom "recognizes and awards excellence in the African telecommunications market," according to its official website. In 2010, AfricaCom handed its Innovation Award to a progressive tool created by Sibesonke. The tool for which the company won the award is a special mobile phone service designed to allow users to access social and business networking services on the most basic cell phones. Rather than using interactive menus, users simply enter numbers corresponding to menu items in order to gain access to networks. The tool allows users without Internet or smart phone access to find jobs, housing and news headlines. It also allows local businesses to generate content for the networks.
  
  

Solar Base

• Global Telecoms Business magazine handed its 2010 Green Power Innovation award to a progressive tool created jointly by telecommunications company Orange and solar power provider Tenesol. The tool for which the pair was awarded the honor is a solar-powered base station that uses the power of the sun to provide reliable telecommunications coverage to African nations. The program began in Senegal in 2007. As of 2010, there are more than 900 of these tools spread throughout Africa. The aim of the program was to create a progressive tool that would provide reliable power for stations transmitting telecommunications signals, so that interruptions in local power grids would not disrupt communications for official, social or business purposes.