Inhabited by almost 41-million residents, Kenya is one of Africa’s fastest growing countries in terms of telecommunications infrastructure. Together with South Africa, Nigeria ...
Posted Online: 18 May 2012
The Communications Commission of Kenya has accused Safaricom of advocating for a monopoly and killing smaller mobile players through its push for higher call termination rates....
Posted Online: 18 May 2012
Telecom giant MTN has dismissed assertions that Glo mobile’s entry into the market poses a threat to its operations and position as Ghana’s number one telecom operator. Expecta...
Posted Online: 18 May 2012
It’s no secret that despite having the longest-standing mobile networks on the continent, SA still has some of the highest mobile call rates in Africa. This week, Cell C went s...
Posted Online: 18 May 2012
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig suggested this week that mobile termination rates (MTRs) — the fees mobile operators charge other players to carry calls onto their networks — shoul...
Posted Online: 18 May 2012
On May 15, 2012, Viettel announced in in Maputo, Mozambique, the official launch of Movitel – the group’s first mobile network in Africa to join its already flourishing network...
Posted Online: 17 May 2012
As of last week (May 2012), the $650 million West Africa Cable System (WACS), linking Southern and Western Africa to Europe, is up and running for commercial use.
The 4-fibr...
Posted Online: 17 May 2012
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) will this year spend a sum of N2.2 billion on the monitoring of the quality of services rendered by telecommunication operators in t...
Posted Online: 17 May 2012
Last week, Telkom announced to shareholders it was making good progress in talks with KT Corp, Korea’s incumbent fixed-line operator. Though the offer price has been cut by nea...
Posted Online: 17 May 2012
Cell C and Vodacom both slashed their prepaid rates on Wednesday, but MTN appears unwilling to be drawn into the unfolding price war, saying its rates are already the most affo...
Posted Online: 17 May 2012
Pan-African telecoms service supplier Gateway Communications has announced that it has brought additional capacity from submarine cable SAT-3 to landlocked Botswana via South A...
Posted Online: 17 May 2012
Mobile phones have become the main means for making voice calls in the world and have brought telecommunications access to many of the world's people for the first time. ...
Posted Online: 16 May 2012
Malawi's telecoms regulator, Macra has been ordered to make a payment of US$66 million to Malawi Mobile in compensation for cancelling its mobile license.
The court ordered...
Posted Online: 16 May 2012
While the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU), 2012 regulatory report released last week highlighted the vital importance of national regulatory framework in acceler...
Posted Online: 16 May 2012
Maputo — Mozambique's third mobile phone operator, Movitel, officially launched its services on Tuesday - although it has in fact been selling its pre-paid phone cards from sho...
Posted Online: 16 May 2012
Vodacom has received the go-ahead to enter the South African insurance market having been recently awarded a long term insurance licence by the Financial Services Board (FSB). ...
Posted Online: 16 May 2012
An Abu Dhabi -based satellite company, Al-Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), has launched its new broadband satellite service in Nigeria, with a pledge to reduce th...
Posted Online: 15 May 2012
Cell C has introduced new mobile broadband promotions, effectively cutting the cost of some of its products in half.
The new promotions, which will be available until the en...
Posted Online: 15 May 2012
Following an investigation into the status of Uganda’s national backbone infrastructure project prior to the third and fourth stages of the network’s rollout, the chairperson o...
Posted Online: 15 May 2012
The Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) has finally stopped selling its contentious fixed-wireless and mobile products, The Times of Swaziland reports. In...
Posted Online: 15 May 2012
Prof John Nkoma, the director general for the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA), says that the government has approved regulations to allow mobile number porta...
Posted Online: 15 May 2012
Etisalat Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria, Globacom and MTN Nigeria, a unit of South's
Africa's MTN, were fined a total of 1.17 billion naira ($7.43 million),
according to local med...
Posted Online: 14 May 2012
For rendering poor services to their customers, four Global System for Mobile Communications operators have been ordered by the Nigerian Communications Commission to pay N1.2 b...
Posted Online: 14 May 2012
Cell C, now headed by former Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig, is hiring a number of past and present Vodacom executives to flesh out its management team. Three of Cell C’s t...
Posted Online: 14 May 2012
State-controlled Broadband Infraco is set to replace its Siemens-built legacy infrastructure over the next five years and has just closed the tender process for the project. Th...
Posted Online: 14 May 2012
Helios Towers Africa a leading, independent, telecoms towers company in Africa, has announced the appointment of Kevin Koch as Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Koch, 42, joins H...
Posted Online: 14 May 2012
Essar Telecom’s Yu Mobile has launched a new service ‘Credo4yu’, which is a pre-paid credit service that gives access to emergency airtime to its subscribers
S...
Posted Online: 11 May 2012
Nairobi — The Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) insists it is ready to lower the Mobile Termination Rates (MTR) by July this year.
The statement comes am...
Posted Online: 11 May 2012
Safaricom Limited has made a move to raise its calling charges in Kenya, that could see an increase in its second half performance.
The company recorded a drop...
Posted Online: 11 May 2012
Zimbabwe’s Telecel, which has become known for reducing the cost of mobile communication services, is slashing the cost of its data bundles, making them the cheapest on the mar...
Posted Online: 11 May 2012
The Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA) intends to upgrade the current Nigerian infrastructure to the tune of N11-million (R555 494) in order to achieve its goal ...
Posted Online: 11 May 2012
Today at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State, African Development Bank, Microso...
Posted Online: 11 May 2012
Construction is starting on Ghana’s first ICT Park, aimed at developing the country’s ICT sector.
Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Communication ...
Posted Online: 10 May 2012
WASACE Cable Company has announced that it has begun the procurement process to select a cable system supplier for the construction of its undersea fiber optic cable system, wh...
Posted Online: 10 May 2012
The introduction of a fourth player to Egypt’s wireless sector is reportedly closer to taking a step towards reality, with the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (...
Posted Online: 10 May 2012
Intel Corporation has partnered with Orange Uganda with the aim of making broadband and PC’s more affordable and to propel their reach to customers by bridging the broadening g...
Posted Online: 10 May 2012
Abuja — The National Assembly, yesterday, said it would probe Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on the N6.1 billion given by the Federal Government for SIM card registra...
Posted Online: 10 May 2012
press release following the Nigeria Broadband Forum, an Extensia - Accenture initiative:
Considering that voice telephony has just become a basic service in many countries o...
Posted Online: 09 May 2012
The Ghanaian cellular operators MTN and Expresso have been fined by the regulator the National Communications Authority (NCA) for providing poor quality of service (QoS). MTN was f...
Posted Online: 09 May 2012
South Africa-based MTN Group has reported that its consolidated subscriber base reached 170.57 million as at 31 March 2012, up 3.7% quarter-on-quarter. MTN’s local unit, MTN So...
Posted Online: 09 May 2012
Telecoms Network Malawi (TNM) limited has unveiled plans to invest over USD100 million to expand its network coverage in the country.
“TNM's current budget is ...
Posted Online: 09 May 2012
During the annual Budget Speech Vote made by South Africa’s Department of Communications, Deputy Minister Stella Ndabeni called on network operators to work together in order t...
Posted Online: 09 May 2012
Officials in charge of ICT from all over Africa have called for harmonised guidelines on how to access submarine cables that are anchored in various countries.
...
Posted Online: 09 May 2012
Telecommunications giant Bharti Airtel Limited recently released its audited consolidated IFRS results for the fourth quarter and year ending 31 March with overall customer bas...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
Tunisiana has acquired its licences to operate 3G and fixed-line networks in Tunisia. The company will pay USD 132 million for the licences, which require the launch of 3G services...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
Industry sources disclosed that in its desperate bid to halt the losses, the company on Friday effected the sack of some 200 skeletal staff in one fell swoop while its founder ...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
Given recent weakness in MTN's share price over concerns about Iran and the $4,2bn lawsuit from rival Turkcell, is it time to buy the cellphone group's shares?
...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
BT Global Services has a strategy in place to expand and enrich connectivity within Africa and strengthen ties between the continent and Europe.
Ch...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
South African mobile operator Vodacom has started the implementation of new measures that will prevent users from abusing BlackBerry’s fixed-fee unlimited internet browsing.
...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
Mobile operator MTN Ghana has deactivated over 21 000 of its subscribers as part of a drive to clean up the mobile network. Users who were selected for deactivation either did ...
Posted Online: 08 May 2012
Vodacom is expecting to turn in a solid financial performance for the financial year ended 31 March when it reports its results on 21 May. However, both basic and headlin...
Posted Online: 04 May 2012
The Brics Cable, a superfast broadband submarine network that will extend from the east of Russia to the US via SA, and which will cost as much as US$1,5bn to construct, ...
Posted Online: 04 May 2012
The Namibia Competition Commission (NaCC) has issued a decision approving Telecom Namibia’s proposed takeover of cellular operator Powercom (trading as Leo) provided the buyer ...
Posted Online: 04 May 2012
Worried by the indiscriminate installation of communications masts and towers and the perceived danger they pose to environment, the Lagos State Government has established a ne...
Posted Online: 04 May 2012
Nigerian CDMA operator Starcomms has said its pre-tax loss widened to NGN15.61 billion (USD99 million) in the year ended 31 December 2011, from NGN5.16 billion in 2010, news ag...
Posted Online: 04 May 2012
Niger’s parliament has voted to nationalise incumbent telecoms operator Sonitel, abandoning a renewed attempt to privatise the company launched last year, Reuters reports. ‘By ...
Posted Online: 04 May 2012
London — Tanzania is making big strides in rolling out its national backbone and connecting to all of its neighbours. Also at the beginning of April this year, it dropped its b...
Posted Online: 03 May 2012
Lonestar Cell MTN as a good corporate citizen in Liberia has vowed to continue to invest in the country and contribute to the growth of the economy. A member of the MTN Group h...
Posted Online: 03 May 2012
ICASA’s deferral notice regarding the implementation of its new spectrum fees has been deemed illegal, and the regulator now faces the mountainous administrative task of rectif...
Posted Online: 03 May 2012
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services says that mobile operator, Vodacom should retain a clear leading position in the local domestic mobile market over the next twelve months...
Posted Online: 03 May 2012
FibreCo Telecommunications, a partnership between Cell C, Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners, announced today (2 May 2012) that it plans to start offering services on ...
Posted Online: 03 May 2012
Accenture/Extensia Nigeria Broadband Forum:
The fastest way to transmit to the end users the huge broadband capacity brought into the count...
Posted Online: 02 May 2012
Accenture/ Extensia Nigeria Broadband Forum:
The Nigerian Communica
tions Commisison (NCC)
has said it will take ano...
Posted Online: 02 May 2012
Accenture/Extensia Nigeria Broadband Forum:
The Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, on Monday said the ministry was working t...
Posted Online: 02 May 2012
Accenture/Extensia Nigeria Broadband Forum:
Dr. Eugene Juwah, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Monday said the commi...
Posted Online: 02 May 2012
AHEAD of the actualisation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in the country in the next few months, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has directed network operators...
Posted Online: 02 May 2012
Ghana finally has a new cellular operator following the launch on Sunday of Nigerian-owned firm Glo Mobile. Having received its concession back in 2008, Glo Ghana has f...
Posted Online: 02 May 2012
The management committee of the West African Cable System (WACS) announced in a press statement today (30 April 2012) that it would hold a launch event for the new cable on 11 ...
Posted Online: 01 May 2012
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has formally launched its visa classic card service at a ceremony in Kumasi as part of its efforts at making banking more accessible and...
Posted Online: 01 May 2012
The Tanzanian ICT sector is rapidly expanding and has become a strong pillar
for the country’s socio-economic development. This is according to Prof. Makame
Mbarawa, Minist...
Posted Online: 01 May 2012
The Blantyre High Court’s Commercial Division has ordered the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) to pay USD66.85 million to defunct wireless operator Malawi Mob...
Posted Online: 01 May 2012
Angolan cellco Movicel has expanded its commercial 4G LTE mobile broadband network, which it launched earlier this month in oil-producing province Cabinda, to Angola’s capital ...
Posted Online: 01 May 2012
THE Tanzania's fast growth on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has attracted many investors into the sector, the Minister for Communication, Science and Technolog...
Posted Online: 30 April 2012
When completed, NICTBB will represent a total investment of US$200 million, US$170 million of which will have come from a concessionary Chinese loan and US$30 million from the ...
Posted Online: 30 April 2012
Safaricom Kenya and Bharti Airtel are set to form an agreement that will
enable the two giants to lay a fiber network. The move is designed to cut costs
associated with the...
Posted Online: 30 April 2012
According to Business Daily Africa, Kenyan telcos Safaricom and Airtel Kenya are poised to embark on a joint venture (JV), which will see them deploy an independent fibre-optic...
Posted Online: 30 April 2012
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe is on the verge of concluding talks with a group of unnamed international banks for a US$307 million syndicated loan facility to finance capital projec...
Posted Online: 27 April 2012
Vodacom stands accused of using political and diplomatic pressure in its battle with a fixer who recently won a case against it in a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) cour...
Posted Online: 27 April 2012
MTN, the R255bn Johannesburg-listed cellphone giant, is in danger of being whacked with sanctions by the US for its telecommunication activities in Iran and Syria.
US ...
Posted Online: 27 April 2012
Vodacom has bought set-top boxes from Altech’s Durban-based UEC subsidiary that are capable of delivering both fixed-line and wireless Internet protocol television (IPTV)...
Posted Online: 27 April 2012
Office Nationale des Telecommunications (Onatel), Burkina Faso’s incumbent fixed line telecoms operator, has announced it generated net profit of XAF4.623 billion (USD9.1 milli...
Posted Online: 27 April 2012
Omnitele Benchmarks the Quality of Service
in Rwandan Mobile Networks
Rwa...
Posted Online: 27 April 2012
Safaricom and Airtel will form a rare joint venture in the laying of a multi-million shilling fibre network to cut their reliance on third parties for wholesale internet ...
Posted Online: 26 April 2012
Abuja — Two government agencies in Abuja, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC and its counterpart, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agen...
Posted Online: 26 April 2012
MTN in Rwanda has announced that they will be reducing their pricing on data
bundles – by almost half. The new pricing structure will come into effect for
post-paid and top...
Posted Online: 26 April 2012
MasterCard has partnered with local mobile-centric financial services company Oltio to bring MasterCard Mobile to the South African market, expanding the platform for online sh...
Posted Online: 26 April 2012
Puleng Sejanamane has been appointed CEO of the state-owned Broadband Infraco by Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba.
“[This] … is one of the final building blocks bei...
Posted Online: 26 April 2012
Zimbabwe telco Econet Wireless has reported a 24% increase in full-year revenues in its financial year to end-February 2012. Sales rose to USD611.1 million, up from USD493.5 mi...
Posted Online: 26 April 2012
The Senate wielded the big stick yesterday when it ordered the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) and the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) to halt further process of th...
Posted Online: 25 April 2012
The United Bank for Africa, Benin Limited, a subsidiary of United Bank for Africa Plc, has facilitated the grant of $50 million syndicated loan towards economic development of ...
Posted Online: 25 April 2012
Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled palm-sized LightRadio technology that seeks to
render the towering base transmission stations operated by many mobile operators
out-dated.
Th...
Posted Online: 25 April 2012
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is well advanced with their rapid network deployment plan which will make it easier for telecommunications oper...
Posted Online: 25 April 2012
A report in the East African Business Week says that the government of Tanzania is preparing to launch a probe into the ownership status of local mobile operator MIC Tanzania L...
Posted Online: 25 April 2012
South Africa’s telecoms regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), has unveiled its strategic plan for the next five years, reports technology...
Posted Online: 24 April 2012
Visafone Communications Limited is set to play a more dominant role in the Central Bank Nigeria's (CBN) newly introduced mobile money initiative as well as in the mobile broadb...
Posted Online: 24 April 2012
Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have signed a new contract to upgrade diesel powered
base stations in Nigeria with a new green energy solution known as E-site.
Bharti Airtel is ...
Posted Online: 24 April 2012
Increases investment in Innovation, Enterprise and Consumer
Businesses
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT)
solutions pro...
Posted Online: 24 April 2012
The National Communications Authority (NCA) in Ghana is threatening to revoke a cellular operating concession held by Nigerian-owned company Glo Mobile if it fails to launch co...
Posted Online: 24 April 2012
The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency
(NITDA), Professor Cleopas Angaye, has urged ICT stakeholders to support the
campaign to invo...
Posted Online: 23 April 2012
China's ZTE Corp, which launched
its first basic mobile phone in Africa little more than 10 years ago, said it
could be shipping 1...
Posted Online: 23 April 2012
The local government intends to put more efforts in service delivery to local communities as new technologies spread across the country, Cyrille Turatsinze, the permanent secre...
Posted Online: 23 April 2012
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, announced the appointment of Safaricom’s
CEO Bob Collymore to the UN Global Compact Board.
The UN Global Compact is a voluntary init...
Posted Online: 23 April 2012
According to a Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) report, the number of
mobile subscribers had increased by 5.99%, from 26.49 to 28.08 million
subscriptions.
Howeve...
Posted Online: 23 April 2012
Kenya's top
telecoms operator Safaricom will lay a fibre-optic cable network to offer
faster and more efficient Internet data services in expectation of a mobil...
Posted Online: 20 April 2012
FREE calls within the Yu mobile network helped the operator to add more than half a million customers between September and December last year.
The smallest mobile company i...
Posted Online: 20 April 2012
The tough times continue for Finnish phone giant Nokia, which has struggled to keep up with Apple and Android in the smartphone era. On Thursday, the company announced its resu...
Posted Online: 20 April 2012
Communications minister Dina Pule hopes government will have a draft policy direction on spectrum ready sometime next month.
She says her department has not rushed the...
Posted Online: 20 April 2012
South African firms i3 Africa and Imphandze have received formal support from the governments of China and South Africa for a proposed 34,000km submarine cable linking the BRIC...
Posted Online: 20 April 2012
Telecom operator Millicom International Cellular S.A. Wednesday said it's seeing a strong uptake of smartphones on emerging markets, as advanced mobile devices become increasin...
Posted Online: 19 April 2012
Mobile operator, Safaricom, has announced plans to stop selling unlimited data packages saying it is losing money on the pricing model.
The company blamed some data user of ...
Posted Online: 19 April 2012
Nairobi, Kenya — Global telecommunications corporation Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a technology that could be the breakthrough in provision of wireless broadband, and potential...
Posted Online: 19 April 2012
Bharti Airtel, a global telecom services provider with operations in 20
countries across Asia and Africa, has announced the appointment of Shivan
Bhargava as Managing Direc...
Posted Online: 19 April 2012
The Zimbabwean WiMAX operator Aquiva Wireless has launched its first commercial voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) services, allowing users to access voice services via a broa...
Posted Online: 19 April 2012
A further significant drop in broadband prices in the East African region is expected following the launch of the Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION2) submarine cable in East A...
Posted Online: 18 April 2012
Even with N70 billion budget appropriation for ICT in the current financial year, the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has said that Nigerian ICT com...
Posted Online: 18 April 2012
Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft’s chairman for Africa, was named interim prime minister of Mali on Tuesday, according to a decree read out over public media.
“Interim presid...
Posted Online: 18 April 2012
Vodacom Group (VOD) has advised that the designation of Sipho Maseko, an executive director, has changed with immediate effect to Group Chief Operating Officer for Vodacom.
...
Posted Online: 18 April 2012
The Citizen newspaper writes that the deputy minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Mr Charles Kitwanga, has told the National Assembly that the government holds a...
Posted Online: 18 April 2012
Next month could see the beginning of an economic ascent, driven by increased
broadband connectivity, with the launch of the 14 000km, 5.12Tbps subsea fibre-optic cable, the ...
Posted Online: 17 April 2012
Beijing — Hua Wei Technologies Company Limited, a Chinese telecommunications company has expressed interest that it is ready to help in setting up of fixed phone system (landli...
Posted Online: 17 April 2012
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and MTN Nigeria yesterday called on security agencies to prevent the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) from carrying ...
Posted Online: 17 April 2012
Neotel and the Wireless Access Providers’ Association of South Africa (WAPA) have partnered to extend Neotel’s last mile access footprint to provide companies and consumers wit...
Posted Online: 17 April 2012
The Algerian government has valued the country’s largest cellular operator Djezzy at USD6.5 billion according to local press reports, well above analyst estimates. El Khabar ne...
Posted Online: 17 April 2012
Angolan mobile operator Movicel has announced the commercial launch of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the oil-producing Cabinda province, providing mobile broadband ser...
Posted Online: 17 April 2012
France Telecom-Orange and the other members of the Lower Indian Ocean Network 2 (LION2) consortium have announced the commercial launch of services on the submarine cable, prov...
Posted Online: 16 April 2012
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has embarked on a US$16 million construction of its new headquarters (HQ) in the capital.
The tel...
Posted Online: 16 April 2012
UGANDA Telecom has refuted allegations that the company will be liquidated. Donald Nyakairu, the managing director, said in a statement on Thursday that he was perturbed by the...
Posted Online: 16 April 2012
Leo, the second mobile operator in Namibia, has appointed Stanley Similo, as the company's interim CEO with effect from 11 April.
Similo will lead Leo as the interim CEO tog...
Posted Online: 16 April 2012
President Paul Kagame has merged the ministries of Youth and ICT and appointed Jean Philbert Nsengimana as the minister.
Speaking to The New Times, yesterday, Protais Musoni...
Posted Online: 16 April 2012
France Telecom has moved closer to assuming almost full control of its Egyptian mobile phone venture, Mobinil, after agreeing to buy out most of the shares owned by tycoon Nagu...
Posted Online: 13 April 2012
All Corporate Directors and CEO’s of Airtel operations in Africa and South-East Asia forwent their salary increase for the period March 31, 2011 to March 31, 2012 to save cost....
Posted Online: 13 April 2012
The continuous increase in the cost of bandwidth and the attendant low penetration of broadband across the country have become source of worry to Information and Communications...
Posted Online: 13 April 2012
Nigeria’s first technology innovation hub, Co-Creation Hub, yesterday
announced that it has partnered with the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF).
The partnership is aimed at e...
Posted Online: 13 April 2012
Mobile operator MTN has been at the forefront of an on-going legal wrangle
between itself and Turkcell, with the latter claiming that the mobile operator
side-lined them in...
Posted Online: 13 April 2012
Communications minister Dina Pule will host a national information and communications technology (ICT) policy colloquium later this month to review all of government’s po...
Posted Online: 12 April 2012
Opinion
For Nigeria to achieve her vision of effective broadband services, the nation's transmission backbones must align to become interoperable.
This was the ad...
Posted Online: 12 April 2012
Proposals for an amendment to current Egyptian law which would introduce a requirement for a percentage of shares in mobile network operators to be held by Egyptian entities wi...
Posted Online: 12 April 2012
The chief executives of Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Telecom Egypt have held talks in Riyadh aimed at developing a strategic partnership between the two firms. According to ...
Posted Online: 12 April 2012
Etisalat Nigeria, the country’s fourth largest mobile operator by subscribers, plans to invest NGN30.6 billion (USD193.8 million) in the expansion of its wireless network, loca...
Posted Online: 12 April 2012
FNB Connect, the Internet Service Provider division of First
National Bank, announced that they will be increasing the free monthly ADSL data
for qualifying FNB cheque acco...
Posted Online: 11 April 2012
The founder of Visafone Communication Limited, Jim Ovia, has said that Nigerians will be expending wireless broadband services worth N600 billion come 2015 even as he said aggr...
Posted Online: 11 April 2012
Vodacom has dropped charges from incoming calls and messages for its customers while roaming in Africa.
According to a press release issued by the company on Monday, custome...
Posted Online: 11 April 2012
Bharti Airtel, a new entrant in the Rwandan telecom sector, paid $15.5 million (Rwf9.3 billion) to acquire Rwandatel's GSM Masts, Rwandatel's administrator, Richard Mugisha, ha...
Posted Online: 11 April 2012
As telecoms carry on to explore avenues to beat competition in both subscription numbers and revenue volumes, the battle has been shifted to mobile money services.
Rwandan t...
Posted Online: 10 April 2012
SES, Luxemburg based company with a fleet of 50 satellites, is in negotiations to provide satellite services to back up the infrastructure of Ethiopia’s telecommunication provi...
Posted Online: 10 April 2012
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in Nigeria has
renewed its commitment to support the development and growth of Information
Technology (IT) in...
Posted Online: 10 April 2012
South Africa’s Vodacom Group has unveiled substantial roaming discounts for Vodacom South Africa subscribers using their mobile phones in the four African countries where it op...
Posted Online: 10 April 2012
Maputo — Mozambique's Minister of Science and Technology, Venancio Massingue, told reporters on Tuesday that everything is being done to ensure that the country's first Science...
Posted Online: 05 April 2012
Telkom South Africa, the country’s fixed line incumbent, has been ordered to cut the price of the wholesale broadband product used by all of the nation’s internet service provi...
Posted Online: 05 April 2012
Vodacom customers can expect huge roaming savings when travelling to six African
countries where Vodacom and Vodafone operate.
These countries include the Democratic Repub...
Posted Online: 05 April 2012
Orascom Telecom Holding SAE (ORTE) headed for the biggest drop in more than three years after a report said it may take months for the Algerian government to conclude talks to ...
Posted Online: 05 April 2012
Safaricom announced that its chief executive Bob Collymore
will oversee the company’s marketing function as part of the firm’s
reorganisation strategy, after the departur...
Posted Online: 05 April 2012
The Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) has won a 6.7 million US dollars (about 10.7bn/-) contract to supply 1.244 gigabytes of internet bandwidth to Rwanda for ...
Posted Online: 04 April 2012
Nairobi — The government has secured an additional Sh4.57 billion ($55.1 million) from the World Bank to scale up digital inclusion, content development, e-government and share...
Posted Online: 04 April 2012
Nigeria's attempt to become a digital economy may be realised sooner going by the plans of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to draw a five-year (2013-2017) Strategi...
Posted Online: 04 April 2012
The Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited has targeted 40 percent
broadband penetration in the country by the year 2015.
Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, the Managing Director ...
Posted Online: 04 April 2012
MTN Group today announced the appointment of Themba Khumalo, currently MTN
Uganda Chief Executive Officer, as Operations Executive for the Group.
Khumalo’s appointment is ...
Posted Online: 04 April 2012
Following the recent broadband cable cut that affected much of East Africa’s
connectivity, the new Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION2) is set to go live and
active on 14 Apr...
Posted Online: 03 April 2012
News on Friday that the cost of IP Connect, the product Internet service providers have to buy from Telkom to access the fixed-line operator’s last-mile broadband network...
Posted Online: 03 April 2012
Namibian cellco Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) has taken steps towards its planned 4G LTE network launch after the Windhoek City Council passed a resolution allowing the munic...
Posted Online: 03 April 2012
MTN Liberia (formerly Lonestar Communications) has announced the signing of its one-millionth mobile customer, based on the audited reports of its parent group MTN’s full...
Posted Online: 03 April 2012
India’s Bharti Airtel group has added to its pan-African footprint with the launch of its new network in Rwanda, marking its seventeenth operation in Africa. Airtel has joined ...
Posted Online: 03 April 2012
Information and
Communication Technology Association - Ethiopia (ICT-ET) announced yesterday
that Addis Ababa has become the latest member of the Mobile Monday family
...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
During this year’s Innovation Africa Digital Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
several speakers from across the continent had the opportunity to brief the
media on their fut...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
During the Innovation Africa Digital Summit in Ethiopia, IT News Africa had
the opportunity to talk to Dr Bashir Gwandu, Nigeria’s Communications
Commission’s Executive Com...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
African government ministers attending the recent Innovation Africa Digital
(IAD) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week have pledged their support for
the ZA Central R...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's
Telkom has been forced to stop a planned 13 billion rand network overhaul after
infrastructure provider ZTE Mzansi won a court...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The former chief
executive of MTN Group denied on Sunday that he authorised bribes to Iranian and
South African government officials in retur...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
Ericsson says that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of BelAir Networks, a North American Wi-Fi company.
The closing follows the announcement on Februar...
Posted Online: 02 April 2012
Telecom operator Orange Kenya has asked the government for a KES 10 billion
($120 million) bailout, news reports revealed on Wednesday. The move comes as
the company contin...
Posted Online: 23 March 2012
Uganda’s telecom regulator, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC),
announced on Thursday that it was pushing back the deadline for entry
submissions for the Annual Com...
Posted Online: 23 March 2012
Korean eletronics giant Samsung will begin selling television sets in selected African markets that come bundled with a satellite tuner that will allow consumers to watch...
Posted Online: 23 March 2012
Telkom Kenya, which is co-owned by France Telecom-Orange (51%) and the Kenyan government (49%), has reportedly asked taxpayers to foot a KES10.9 billion (USD129.6 million) resc...
Posted Online: 23 March 2012
India’s Tata Communications, which owns a controlling interest in local telecommunications operator Neotel, says SA is crucial to the company’s strategy of expanding into...
Posted Online: 22 March 2012
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has instructed Ministries, Department and
Agencies (MDAs) to connect to the new Nigerian Communications Satellite
replacement, NigComSa...
Posted Online: 22 March 2012
Kenya’s leading telecom provider Safaricom announced on Tuesday that it was
upgrading its mobile money platform M-PESA, hoping to make doing financial
transactions wireless...
Posted Online: 22 March 2012
Samsung Electronics showcased an array of new products at the 2012 Samsung Africa Forum, held today (22 March 2012) in Cape Town.
Under its new “Built for Africa – inspire t...
Posted Online: 22 March 2012
interview
The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson in this interaction with IT Journalists recently in Lagos spoke on what her ministry i...
Posted Online: 21 March 2012
Nigerian telecom operator Globacom, has taken fixed line services on its
Broadaccess network to the nation’s third largest city Ibadan. The
company aims to offer voice, dat...
Posted Online: 21 March 2012
Convergence Partners chairman Andile Ngcaba hinted strongly on Tuesday that he wants to build an African version of Telehouse Europe, the carrier-neutral colocation facil...
Posted Online: 21 March 2012
In a petition filed in the Lusaka High Court LAP Green Network, the Libyan Investment Authority’s international telecommunications arm, has challenged the Zambian Government’s ...
Posted Online: 21 March 2012
According to AllAfrica.com citing statistics from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), just 54,616 mobile subscribers made use of the country’s long-delayed mobile num...
Posted Online: 21 March 2012
African tower company Eaton Towers, today announced they are in the process
of expanding their investment in Uganda. According to a statement released by
the company, Eaton...
Posted Online: 20 March 2012
London — Back in December 2011 Balancing Act published an article on mobile data revenue which highlighted that data revenues for mobile operators in Sub-Sahara Africa remain t...
Posted Online: 20 March 2012
Tanzania’s Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof Makame Mbarawa, has reaffirmed plans to establish the country as an Information and Communications Technolog...
Posted Online: 20 March 2012
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is seeking to reclaim unused spectrum in the 2.5GHz band from the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), NCC executive commissione...
Posted Online: 20 March 2012
The third phase of the National Information and Communication Infrastructure Policy (NICI Plan 3; 2011-2015) which will see the development and use of new services acquired dur...
Posted Online: 20 March 2012
NEW DELHI — Indian and African leaders on Sunday agreed to sharply increase bilateral trade to $90 billion by 2015 as the two sides discussed potential deals.
The South Asia...
Posted Online: 19 March 2012
The ministry of information and communication PS, Bitange Ndemo, is proposing an adjustment to the way the fibre optic cable network in order to reduce incidences of outage whe...
Posted Online: 19 March 2012
Nigerian telecom operators have said that the over N10 billion annual multiple taxations levied them by local, state and federal governments and their agencies was threatening ...
Posted Online: 19 March 2012
TANZANIA has experienced a tremendous revolution in the communication sector, a situation that has led to a rapid growth in the use of Information and Communication Technology ...
Posted Online: 19 March 2012
West and Central African broadband markets covering Nigeria, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon have earned revenues of approximately $1.2 billion in 201...
Posted Online: 16 March 2012
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications is calling for tax incentives for the telecoms industry to avoid market stagnation in the face of declining revenues and growing operati...
Posted Online: 16 March 2012
Data just released by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) shows that the country was home to a total of 25.827 million fixed and mobile subscriptions at the...
Posted Online: 16 March 2012
Ugandan police are currently investigating their first case of mobile money
fraud.
According to a statement released by MTN Uganda on Wednesday, a scam has cost
them bil...
Posted Online: 16 March 2012
France Telecom (FT) subsidiary Orange Uganda has signed a 15 year leaseback deal with African towerco, Eaton Towers. Orange has agreed to sell its passive infrastructure and as...
Posted Online: 16 March 2012
AIRTEL Tanzania yesterday launched 3.75G mobile platform, which promises to change how subscribers experience the web on internet-enabled cell phones.
"The 3.75G technology ...
Posted Online: 15 March 2012
Kenya's Safaricom has said that it will withdraw from plans to build a shared LTE network for all the mobile networks if the government insists that it operate in the 2.6Ghz s...
Posted Online: 15 March 2012
France Telecom SA (FTE), the biggest French phone company, agreed to sell part of its wireless network in Uganda to Eaton Towers in a cost-cutting move the carrier said it woul...
Posted Online: 15 March 2012
Vodafone Ghana, a subsidiary of the world's most valuable brand, yesterday introduced an integrated and engaging communications campaign with the tagline 'Limitless Possibiliti...
Posted Online: 15 March 2012
Cellular operator MTN Ghana has announced plans to invest USD134 million this year to expand its infrastructure as it targets eleven million subscribers by year-end, up from th...
Posted Online: 15 March 2012
Sabotage on Tanzania’s broadband fiber optic cables has left regions without
internet on the country’s National Information Communications and Technology
Broadband Backbone...
Posted Online: 14 March 2012
South Africa's Vodacom will be deploying Genesys Social Engagement to automate and integrate social media interactions with customers throughout their contact center and custom...
Posted Online: 14 March 2012
MTN SA has told the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) that a second digital migration may be necessary once the move from analogue to digital television broadc...
Posted Online: 14 March 2012
Nairobi, Kenya — Bharti Airtel has announced significant milestones in its endeavour to build a 'green' environment friendly mobile network and reduce its carbon footprint in A...
Posted Online: 14 March 2012
Nairobi, Kenya — Repairs on The East African Marine System (TEAMS) fibre optic cable are set to commence in the next 10 days, about a month after it was accidentally cut off by...
Posted Online: 14 March 2012
MTN, with over 42 million subscribers, has over 7,000 base stations across the country, and burns about 15.5 million litres of diesel to power the sites every month, totalling ...
Posted Online: 13 March 2012
Pagatech mobile money - a financial services platform said it had received a $2 million grant from the Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA), to develop and deliver...
Posted Online: 13 March 2012
Liberia's leader in converged telecommunications and partner of choice has again demonstrated a high level of ingenuity and innovation in the area of mobile telecommunications ...
Posted Online: 13 March 2012
The US government will extend technical assistance to Kenya in developing ICT strategies relating to broadband deployment and universal access, the Communications Commission of...
Posted Online: 13 March 2012
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has revealed that it has signed up one million users to its EcoCash mobile money service, which launched in September last year. The cellco says the su...
Posted Online: 13 March 2012
Lagos — MTN Nigeria has said it has earmarked N214 billion ($1.4 billion) for network expansion in Nigeria this year.
The company's Corporate Services Executive, Mr. Wale Go...
Posted Online: 12 March 2012
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe, the country's largest mobile phone operator in terms of subscribers and coverage, is on the verge of concluding acquisition of 49% equity in TN Bank, ...
Posted Online: 12 March 2012
Telkom and KT Corp are inching closer to a deal. The SA fixed-line operator told shareholders on Friday that a diagnostic review has now been “substantially completed” th...
Posted Online: 12 March 2012
Poor network coverage, dropped calls and lines that are constantly busy, are some of the things that Vodacom says it’s constantly working towards decreasing.
The cellphone o...
Posted Online: 12 March 2012
Portugal Telecom’s subsidiary in Sao Tome and Principe, Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicacoes (CST), has announced the commercial launch of its third-generation network on t...
Posted Online: 12 March 2012
JOHANNESBURG--South African telecommunications company MTN Group Ltd.
(MTN/JO) said Wednesday it continues to look for merger-and-acquisition
opportunities, particularly in...
Posted Online: 09 March 2012
The East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) which was recently damaged will be back on line in about two weeks, it has emerged.
It is suspected that on February 17, a car...
Posted Online: 09 March 2012
For the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry to contribute to the nation's GDP growth, the Federal Government must ensure that merger talks between the coun...
Posted Online: 09 March 2012
ZIMBABWE'S science and technology sector is set to benefit from India following the positive outcome of the India-Africa Science and Technology Ministers Conference held in New...
Posted Online: 09 March 2012
The Ugandan government has announced that Libyan assets that were seized last year in line with UN sanctions against the North African state, are starting to be returned. Accor...
Posted Online: 09 March 2012
Doha — The World Bank today launched a regional initiative to improve broadband connectivity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by bringing utilities' fiber opti...
Posted Online: 08 March 2012
JSE-listed telecommunications group MTN has made sweeping changes to its top management structure, doing away with its regional vice-president positions and creating a new posi...
Posted Online: 08 March 2012
Speaking at a workshop hosted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to discuss its new spectrum fees with stakeholders, ICASA Chairman Stephen Mnc...
Posted Online: 08 March 2012
South Africa-based MTN Group has unveiled its financial results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2011, reporting that consolidated group revenues increased by 6% year-on...
Posted Online: 08 March 2012
The Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mohamed Salem, has reportedly indicated that the country will launch a tender for mobile virtual network ope...
Posted Online: 08 March 2012
Lonestar Cell MTN has launched the Internet for Liberia Project, introducing a variety of internet services here. The Lonestar cell as the premier GSM Company in the country th...
Posted Online: 07 March 2012
Zimbabwe has a new internet service provider (ISP) and voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony operator in the shape of Aptics. The firm was awarded an Internet Access Pr...
Posted Online: 07 March 2012
Uganda’s telecoms watchdog, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has launched a SIM registration programme intended to reduce phone-based crime. Wireless subscribers have...
Posted Online: 07 March 2012
AppChat, a new mobile company founded and run by former ECN founder and CEO John Holdsworth, is planning to significantly reduce the price of mobile voice calls and drastically...
Posted Online: 07 March 2012
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has postponed the licensing of spectrum suitable for Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile services, after the count...
Posted Online: 07 March 2012
It has been three weeks since an underwater cable was damaged off the Kenyan
cost, leaving East African companies and businesses frustrated as they await
telecom services t...
Posted Online: 06 March 2012
The Peoples Democratic Party has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for an order to compel the Nigerian Communications Commission to revoke the licence of MTN Nig...
Posted Online: 06 March 2012
As East African internet outages continue, the Rwandan government told
telecommunications operators and ISPs on Monday to “provide seamless redundancy
and diversity of inte...
Posted Online: 06 March 2012
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is set to receive 100,000 more laptops in a bid to ensure that all 416 administrative sectors in the country have an OLPC-enabled school...
Posted Online: 06 March 2012
Cellular operator MTN has warned that the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) draft proposals for licensing of spectrum in high-demand spectrum bands have th...
Posted Online: 05 March 2012
Convergence Partners, the technology investment vehicle controlled by Dimension Data Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba, wants to work with partners to build a multibillion-rand nat...
Posted Online: 05 March 2012
The federal government of Nigeria has approved the adoption of a guided liquidation strategy for ailing fixed line incumbent Nigeria Telecommunications (NITEL) and its mobile a...
Posted Online: 05 March 2012
Shareholders of Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT) have voted in favour of selling the majority of the company’s stake in Egyptian cellco Mobinil to France Telecom (FT...
Posted Online: 05 March 2012
Airtel Africa have enriched their partnership with Google, aiming to make
internet products more accessible to African consumers.
The two companies have teamed up to launc...
Posted Online: 02 March 2012
Google Inc’s controversial new privacy policy went live Thursday, offering millions of Google users the advantage of more individualized service, but at the expense of yielding...
Posted Online: 02 March 2012
Satellite service provider Intelsat, together with content management and delivery company GlobeCast, are launching a new media platform on the Intelsat New Dawn satellite, the...
Posted Online: 02 March 2012
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) recently issued a notice to inform “all interested stakeholders” of a workshop on spectrum fees to be held on M...
Posted Online: 02 March 2012
Airtel Nigeria, the local unit of Indian telecoms group Bharti Airtel, has launched a Dual Carrier HSPA+ (DC-HSPA+) network, which supports mobile broadband services at downloa...
Posted Online: 02 March 2012
Chinese mobile telecommunication firms are scrambling for a stake in the Ethiopia's mobile platform after the government of that country indicated that it would undertake a US$...
Posted Online: 01 March 2012
Barcelona: France Telecom, the biggest French phone company, seeks to bolster cooperation between units in Africa and the Middle East to improve networks and promote its Orange...
Posted Online: 01 March 2012
Haruna Idrissu, Ghana’s Minister of Communications, has given directives to
the National Communications Authority (NCA) to engage telecom companies before
the termination o...
Posted Online: 01 March 2012
Eleven Ghanian government departments and agencies will commence with
e-government projects to improve service to its citizens, the government said on
Wednesday.
These a...
Posted Online: 01 March 2012
CAIRO (Reuters) - The number of mobile
phone subscriptions in Egypt rose 18 percent to 83.43 million last year,
shrugging off an economic crisis sparked by the overth...
Posted Online: 01 March 2012
East African internet users experienced reduced speeds on Tuesday after
ships’ anchors severed the two undersea fiber optic cables off the coast. The
companies involved on ...
Posted Online: 29 February 2012
MTN, the leading telecommunications company in Nigeria has deployed two independent 622MB data networks for Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), the largest capacity eve...
Posted Online: 29 February 2012
Kenya's leading telecoms firms cut their advertising budgets by large margins last year to cut costs as vicious price wars ate into their earnings.
Data from Ipsos Media sho...
Posted Online: 29 February 2012
Barcelona, Spain — Bharti Airtel is going back to the drawing board to chart a new strategy for the African market, following what it termed as an unexpected and surprising res...
Posted Online: 29 February 2012
National PTO Djibouti Telecom and Saudi-based STC Group have co-signed a partnership agreement to link their respective operations in the region with Europe and the rest of the...
Posted Online: 29 February 2012
Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions
provider, introduced the world’s fastest quad-core smartphone, the Huawei
Ascend D quad at the o...
Posted Online: 28 February 2012
A special version of the Opera Mini mobile web browser, launched by MTN and
Opera Software last year to MTN’s subscribers, has been met with great
enthusiasm by MTN custome...
Posted Online: 28 February 2012
Nairobi, Kenya — Handset maker Nokia is set to roll out its first mobile application that was produced by Kenyans in the local market.
Nokia's Research and Development Econo...
Posted Online: 28 February 2012
The planned liberalisation of the international gateway in Sierra Leone could lead to serious financial difficulties for the state-owned telecoms operator Sierratel, its chairm...
Posted Online: 28 February 2012
Angolan cellco Movicel has signed a contract to deploy a commercial 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network with China’s Huawei Technologies. Under the deal, Huaw...
Posted Online: 28 February 2012
A South African company has been selected to run dotAfrica, the upcoming top-level internet domain for Africa.
The African Union selected Uniforum SA as a preferred registry...
Posted Online: 27 February 2012
Airtel Kenya yesterday launched its 3.75G network offering more flexible bundles that could spark another round of price wars, this time in the data market. The Indian-owned co...
Posted Online: 27 February 2012
The Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION2), Kenya’s fourth submarine cable, will
become fully operational in April this year, the local telecommunications
ministry revealed on ...
Posted Online: 27 February 2012
Safaricom and Telkom Kenya’s appeals for increased termination charges have been
rejected by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). The termination
charges are the a...
Posted Online: 27 February 2012
Malian fixed line incumbent Societe des Telecommunications du Mali (SOTELMA) is expected to begin trading on the Abidjan-based West African regional bourse by the end of June 2...
Posted Online: 27 February 2012
Kenya has entered into a deal with a United Nations agency to create a central desk to handle cyber crimes.
The Kenya National Computer Incident Response Team Co-ordination ...
Posted Online: 24 February 2012
Facts have emerged as to why the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), preferred to register banks, instead of telecommunications operators (Telcos), for the operation of mobile money...
Posted Online: 24 February 2012
Visa International, electronic banking leader, announced on Wednesday plans
to launch cross-border mobile money payments platform to ease banking in East
Africa.
New ser...
Posted Online: 24 February 2012
Africa's quest for greater connectivity and improved intra-regional trade could soon become a reality after the continent's leaders agreed to increase public spending on infras...
Posted Online: 24 February 2012
opinion
Last week, a major milestone was reached in the local health industry.
The joint Health ministries, in partnership with the Vision 2030 directorate, detai...
Posted Online: 23 February 2012
Saurimo — The country's 18 provinces will be interlinked by optical fibre, meant to expand and improve telephone and internet services, says the minister of Telecommunications ...
Posted Online: 23 February 2012
Communications ministers in Zimbabwe are heading for a clash over plans by Econet Wireless to deploy a fibre-optic cable to Mozambique to link with international undersea cable...
Posted Online: 23 February 2012
Cellular operator MTN Rwanda is reporting revenues for 2011 of RWF80 billion (USD132 million), up from RWF73.6 billion a year earlier. The company says it is targeting sales of...
Posted Online: 23 February 2012
Zambia’s Transport, Works, Supply and Communication Minister Yamfwa Mukanga has called on the country’s largest cellco by subscribers, Airtel Zambia, to consider reducing calls...
Posted Online: 23 February 2012
France Telecom SA’s Kenyan unit plans to add 500,000 users to its network by the
end of 2012 and wants the regulator to double rates operators can charge to
carry each othe...
Posted Online: 22 February 2012
Following the EASSy cable disruptions detected between Djibouti and Port Sudan, which carries the majority of international Internet traffic, MTN Rwanda warns that Internet sub...
Posted Online: 22 February 2012
BT Group (formerly British Telecom) is expanding its presence in sub-Saharan Africa, including in SA, doubling the number of people it employs across the Middle East and ...
Posted Online: 22 February 2012
Ghana’s telecoms regulator the National Communication Authority (NCA) has revealed that more than 7.5 million mobile phone accounts are still in danger of being de-activated fo...
Posted Online: 22 February 2012
interview
TELECEL Zimbabwe says it has big plans for expansion and increasing market coverage this year. This follows the company's recent re-branding exercise...
Posted Online: 21 February 2012
Shoden Data Systems is a long-time South African provider of data centre technology both in its home country and into Sub-Saharan Africa and it has been working for many years ...
Posted Online: 21 February 2012
Companies falling under the remit of Libya’s sovereign wealth fund the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) are no longer subject to a freeze on their assets abroad Reuters report...
Posted Online: 21 February 2012
Satellite providers Global Telesat and RascomStar have entered into a joint venture to offer satellite-based internet access throughout Africa, beginning with Angola. The ventu...
Posted Online: 21 February 2012
Vodacom Tanzania, a unit of South Africa-based Vodacom Group, says it expanded its customer base by roughly a third to twelve million users last year, and plans to spend USD94 ...
Posted Online: 21 February 2012
interview
LAST week Transport and Communications minister Nicholas Goche told the Zimbabwe Independent the national flag carrier Air Zimbabwe would be unbundle...
Posted Online: 20 February 2012
opinion
The world today is experiencing massive advancement in technology in various spheres.
However, not many of us are ready to move at the pace with which tec...
Posted Online: 20 February 2012
Mobile operator Orange has made the popular social network Facebook available to
its African customers through USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data).
“Facebook vi...
Posted Online: 20 February 2012
Warid Congo, a telecommunication operator in Congo, announced the launch of
Warid Mobicash across its network. This offer is based on the Mobile Money
technology from Mobic...
Posted Online: 20 February 2012
Swaziland’s minister of ICT Winnie Magagula has publicly called for an end to the ongoing hostilities between national telecoms regulator the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunicat...
Posted Online: 20 February 2012
opinion
For decades, Nokia was in the enviable and near-unassailable position of global cellphone maker. Its domination was near total; market presence, volume of hand...
Posted Online: 17 February 2012
In addition to the announcements about Apple’s next operating system Mac OS X Mountain Lion, the company rolled out a beta edition of its iMessages chat app on Thursday.
App...
Posted Online: 17 February 2012
Sony has completed the buyout of its joint venture Sony Ericsson.
The subsidiary is set to be known as Sony Mobile Communications. This comes
despite a tough financial per...
Posted Online: 17 February 2012
Telecom companies in Uganda have taken the competition beyond the voice calls platform to other Value Added Services (VAS) like Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Mobile money...
Posted Online: 17 February 2012
In a new submission to the Competition Tribunal at hearings into alleged anticompetitive behaviour by Telkom, the Competition Commission has recommended to the tribunal that it...
Posted Online: 16 February 2012
The row over mobile interconnection charges, which has divided Kenya's top telecoms into two, took a new twist after the regulator refused to conduct a fresh audit to advise on...
Posted Online: 16 February 2012
Moroccan telecoms regulator ANRT’s latest annual report (Agence National de
Réglementation des Télécommunications) found telecommunication service prices
dropped by 34% bet...
Posted Online: 16 February 2012
The youngest telecom operator in Tunisia, Orange Tunisia, rolled out uncapped
mobile internet access for all their ‘Internet Everywhere’ customers.
Currently users receive...
Posted Online: 16 February 2012
Under a timeline approved by the Ghanaian cabinet, the country is targeting a migration from analogue to digital TV by the end of 2014. The National Communications Authority (N...
Posted Online: 16 February 2012
Mobile telecommunications customers are riled at what they describe as poor service delivery and have demanded an immediate improvement from Ethio-Telecom and France Telecom, w...
Posted Online: 15 February 2012
The federal government has set a 12 per cent broadband penetration target for the mobile service providers and fibre optic operators which would help take broadband to the rura...
Posted Online: 15 February 2012
If the Competition Tribunal imposes a large fine on Telkom for anticompetitive behaviour, it will be “catastrophic” for the company and will “irretrievably jeopardise its v...
Posted Online: 15 February 2012
American Tower Corporation (ATC), the company that acquired Cell C’s base station infrastructure last year in a R430m deal, has begun building its own mobile telecommunicat...
Posted Online: 15 February 2012
Portugal Telecom’s subsidiary in Sao Tome and Principe, Companhia Santomense de Telecomunicacoes (CST), has launched a pilot of its third-generation network, reports Cellular-N...
Posted Online: 15 February 2012
In a drive to ease mobile money transactions and give more powers to its
customers, Vodacom Tanzania took the decision to reduce mobile money
transfer fees by as much as 75...
Posted Online: 14 February 2012
Lagos — Airtel Nigeria has introduced Club Business, a package aimed at boosting business productivity and profitability for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
According t...
Posted Online: 14 February 2012
Communications minister Dina Pule says that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) must make sure that telephony and communications must be reduced ‘v...
Posted Online: 14 February 2012
Ghana’s telecoms regulator, the National Communications Authority (NCA), has announced that 3 March 2012 will be the deadline for the de-activation of unregistered mobile SIM c...
Posted Online: 14 February 2012
Burkina Faso’s telecoms regulator, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications (ARCE), has announced it has issued fines totaling XOF2.706 billion (USD5.3 million) t...
Posted Online: 14 February 2012
Mobile telecommunications company Warid Telecom announced the launch of their
Warid Tijarat portal today. Providing service in Congo, Pakistan and Uganda,
Warid’s new websi...
Posted Online: 13 February 2012
Orascom Telecom has confirmed rumours that it is in talks with France Telecom over the future of their Egyptian mobile network joint-venture, Mobinil.
Responding to querie...
Posted Online: 13 February 2012
Safaricom's mobile financial service M-PESA will close for six hours starting midnight Saturday night to allow the addition of new features.
The company said the service wil...
Posted Online: 13 February 2012
The Kenyan government intends to connect all 47 counties in the country to its ‘in-deployment’ fibre-optic cable by the end of June, Business Daily Africa reports. Although a t...
Posted Online: 13 February 2012
Uganda’s telecoms watchdog the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has begun consultation with stakeholders regarding the introduction of a new series of penalties for telcos...
Posted Online: 13 February 2012
Airtel Kenya has received a second reprieve from meeting local foreign ownership regulations, reports Business Daily Africa. The cellco’s parent, India’s Bharti Airtel, current...
Posted Online: 10 February 2012
THE National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said it will soon provide wide Internet access to students in universities across the country.
Prof. Cleop...
Posted Online: 10 February 2012
ZAMTEL yesterday launched the Third Generation (3G) mobile broadband internet on the mobile network, with a declaration to expand its market-share from the current 10, to at le...
Posted Online: 10 February 2012
Telecel Zimbabwe has introduced an emergency credit facility for active
pre-paid customers, so that if they run out of airtime and have no access to an
airtime card or vouc...
Posted Online: 10 February 2012
Airtel Sierra Leone, a unit of Indian telecoms group Bharti Airtel, has announced the commercial launch of its HSPA network, enabling subscribers to enjoy new services such as ...
Posted Online: 10 February 2012
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is looking at some businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa after selling a major portion of his telecoms assets to VimpelCom. Last ...
Posted Online: 09 February 2012
Vodacom’s hushed launch of their Vodacom-branded tablet will only be available
via the mobile operator.
Available in 7 and 10 inch screens, the Vodacom Smart Tab runs Andr...
Posted Online: 09 February 2012
Airtel money e-payment solution is to make it easy for customers to pay their water bills. Airtel in partnership with National Water and Sewerage Corporation [NWSC] launched th...
Posted Online: 09 February 2012
The Communication Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) says it is investigating alleged interference with the band spectrum frequencies of another licensee after MTC launched...
Posted Online: 09 February 2012
South Africa's Vodacom Group has reported that its fourth-quarter revenues rose by 12.2% to reach R$18 billion.
The company doesn't report quarterly profit figures.
The...
Posted Online: 09 February 2012
Shares of Bharti Airtel slipped 5% in trade on Wednesday after the country's
largest telecom operator reported a 22 per cent decline in consolidated net
profit to Rs 1,01...
Posted Online: 08 February 2012
Local corporates are increasingly showing interest to invest in the proposed ICT city, Konza, whose ground breaking is expected by April this year.
The companies eying to le...
Posted Online: 08 February 2012
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it would auction digital licence in the 2.3GigaHertz (GHz) and 2.6GHz spectra to increase broadband access and make internet p...
Posted Online: 08 February 2012
Senegalese telecommunications group Sonatel has published its full year financial results for 2011 showing that EBITDA climbed 3% year-on-year to XOF334.91 billion (USD668 mill...
Posted Online: 08 February 2012
Airtel Zambia’s network is now reportedly comprised of more than 1,000 cell sites across the country, according to the Times of Zambia. The local press source cites a statement...
Posted Online: 08 February 2012
The Department of Communications (DoC) is not discussing the revision of the definition of broadband in South Africa, deputy director-general Themba Phiri recently revealed in ...
Posted Online: 07 February 2012
Vodacom is cutting their data prices with a new promotional contract
customers, including Top Up. The Broadband Standard MyGig 1 and MyGig 2 data
contract promotion running...
Posted Online: 07 February 2012
Africa has gone from having hardly any cables in 2000 to having no less than 9 cables that will now connect almost all African countries by 2012. Eritrea's the exception but th...
Posted Online: 07 February 2012
Nigerian carrier services provider Phase3 Telecom and Dancom Technologies have
announced their partnership deal boosting broadband services in the country.
They said in a ...
Posted Online: 07 February 2012
A number of international telecoms companies are in talks with Cameroon’s telecommunications ministry to purchase the country’s third mobile operator licence, Dow Jones reports...
Posted Online: 07 February 2012
For the first time since its creation in 2007, the Benin regulator (ATRPT) has issued five new Internet Service Provider licenses....
Posted Online: 06 February 2012
The NEPAD Agency Thursday, February 2, 2012, signed a Grant Facility Agreement (GFA) with French Development Agency (AFD), a French public institution, towards the financing of...
Posted Online: 06 February 2012
Kenyan mobile services provider Cellulant has inked a deal with UK’s Barclays
Bank in order to provide digital services across the African continent.
According to the deal...
Posted Online: 06 February 2012
The iHub is a network and meeting place that enables Kenya's innovators to bring their ideas to fruition.
Through iHub, the technology community, industry, academia, investo...
Posted Online: 06 February 2012
TELECEL Zimbabwe is targeting 60 percent growth in subscribers this year in line with its planned US$70 million network expansion and upgrade programme. But newly appointed man...
Posted Online: 06 February 2012
Many African regulators' have introduced a tax on international inbound calls. It started with Côte d'Ivoire and then spread like a plague to Gabon, Ghana and Senegal, to...
Posted Online: 06 February 2012
Nairobi — Bharti Airtel has unveiled a mobile money platform in Uganda, which now completes the technical process of linking its Tanzanian and Kenyan outfits and set the stage ...
Posted Online: 03 February 2012
Telecel Zimbabwe has officially launched its rebranded image, changing its
corporate colours to red and white and simplifying its logo. This brings its
visual branding in l...
Posted Online: 03 February 2012
Libyan government investment vehicle LAP Green has reportedly failed to submit a bid to reclaim the assets of its former Rwandan unit Rwandatel. ‘LAP Green was given an opportu...
Posted Online: 03 February 2012
The introduction of number portability (NP) in Nigeria is now expected to begin from September this year, Leadership Nigeria cites Dr. Eugene Juwah, the executive vice chairman...
Posted Online: 03 February 2012
The head of Ghana’s latest would-be cellular services provider Glo Mobile Ghana, George Andah, has claimed success for the firm’s ‘023-3’ number reservation campaign, but has s...
Posted Online: 03 February 2012
United Arab Emirates’ telecom provider, Emirate’s Telecommunications, or
Etisalat, revealed on Tuesday that it was looking to off-load mobile phone
towers it currently owns...
Posted Online: 02 February 2012
Kenya’s telecoms operators will continue paying their monthly licence fees at the current rate until July 2012, the Communications Commission of Kenya’s (CCK) board has confirm...
Posted Online: 02 February 2012
Indian-owned mobile phone operator Essar Telecom Kenya, which operates under the ‘yu’ brand name, has called on market leader Safaricom to open up its mobile money transfer ser...
Posted Online: 02 February 2012
Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has assured Nigerians, especially stakeholders of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, that t...
Posted Online: 02 February 2012
MTN Nigeria, the country’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, has teamed up with Qualcomm to improve the performance of its 3G network, BusinessTech reports. Qualcom...
Posted Online: 02 February 2012
The monthly telephone subscribers' expenditure has increased significantly, thanks to technology advancement that has made it easy to send money through mobile phones.
Econo...
Posted Online: 01 February 2012
The Federal Government is to invest about N1 billion to establish an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Incubation Centre.
Mrs Omobola Johnson, Minister of Commu...
Posted Online: 01 February 2012
Qatar has made an offer to buy Saudi Oger’s 55% stake in Oger Telecom, Cell C’s parent company, according to a report from wire service Reuters, which quotes unnamed source...
Posted Online: 01 February 2012
The Mozambican Ministry of Science and Technology has signed a 20 year agreement
to access international broadband fibre connectivity on the SEACOM network to
Europe and on...
Posted Online: 01 February 2012
Despite ongoing political turmoil, an uprising that ousted the former regime and
violence throughout 2011, Egypt’s information technology market grew at a
surprising double...
Posted Online: 01 February 2012
MTN Business has launched its Internet Protocol (IP) Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX) service in Kisumu, hoping to gain a foothold in the fixed line market that is curr...
Posted Online: 31 January 2012
MTN Zambia has invested US$250,000 (K1.2 billion) in the transformation of its service centre into a global brand.
The upgrading of the service centre will provide quality s...
Posted Online: 31 January 2012
Essar Telecom Kenya, which operates under the ‘yu’ brand name, reportedly gained more than 700,000 subscribers in the three month period ended 31 December 2011. Madhur Taneja, ...
Posted Online: 31 January 2012
The National Communication Authority (NCA) of Ghana has published its market update for the end of December 2011, showing that mobile operator Vodafone Ghana has consolidated i...
Posted Online: 31 January 2012
The
Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) will meet with representatives from the
nation’s telecoms operators to discuss deteriorating service quality, reports
local n...
Posted Online: 31 January 2012
The key role of Twitter in the people's revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia a year ago is well documented. Young people embraced the immediacy and freedom of the new social networ...
Posted Online: 30 January 2012
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has launched a web portal known as Transparency Sierra Leone Portal (http://www.transparency.gov.sl/) aimed at enhancing the transparen...
Posted Online: 30 January 2012
Dar es Salaam — Zantel Tanzania has re-branded its Z-Pesa service, a mobile payment service, in a bid to offer better services and withstand competition in the market.
...
Posted Online: 30 January 2012
The Zambia Electricity Supply Company (Zesco) has reportedly begun the installation of a fibre-optic network in the country’s Western Province, with the link expected to deliver br...
Posted Online: 30 January 2012
Talks between JSE-listed telecommunications group Telkom and Korea’s KT Corp appear to be progressing well. In an update to shareholders on Friday, Telkom says a “diagnostic re...
Posted Online: 27 January 2012
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with the British Council
in Africa to deliver their Africa Digital Schools Project aimed at assisting in
“bridging the ...
Posted Online: 27 January 2012
Vodacom has announced the successful implementation of Phase 1 of a libraries
project for internet connectivity across three provinces – North West, Limpopo
and Mpuma...
Posted Online: 27 January 2012
Zimbabwe’s largest cellco and wireless internet provider Econet Wireless today launched voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) telephony services under its Econet Broadband divisi...
Posted Online: 27 January 2012
To cope with surging demand for data services, Nigerian CDMA operator Visafone Communications plans to spend ‘billions of naira’ on the upgrade and expansion of its network, Bl...
Posted Online: 27 January 2012
CAIRO: Orange Telecom is partnering with Wikipedia in an effort to deliver the online encyclopedia free of all data charges to mobile users in the Middle East and Africa. The m...
Posted Online: 26 January 2012
Uganda Telecom (UTL) said on Tuesday that it would ensure that all back taxes to the Uganda Revenue Authority would be paid in full and cleared in order to push forward on its ...
Posted Online: 26 January 2012
Telecom Egypt announced today that Mohamed Sayad Al Dessouky, the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer will retire on Thursday, in line with the telecom giant’s c...
Posted Online: 26 January 2012
Telkom confirms that it has embarked on a recruitment process to appoint a Managing Director for Telkom Mobile
MyBroadband BusinessTech yesterday reported that...
Posted Online: 26 January 2012
A third wireless operator has launched in Equatorial Guinea, joining Orange Guinee Equatoriale (GETESA), and HiTS Equatorial Guinea, reports PR Newswires. The new cellco, dubbe...
Posted Online: 26 January 2012
The drive is on to give the poor in rural areas access to communication services, communications minister Dina Pule said on Tuesday.
“Our aim is to bridge the ...
Posted Online: 25 January 2012
Vodacom today unveiled the completed Vodafone Site Solutions Innovation
Centre, the first ever 6-star Green Star SA rated building in South Africa, at
its head office in Mi...
Posted Online: 25 January 2012
The Zambian government has confirmed expectations and will renationalise the local mobile network, Zamtel, which is 75% owned by Lybia's Lap Green Networks.
The government h...
Posted Online: 25 January 2012
ISP Zimbabwe Online (ZOL) has been acquired by southern African fibre backbone network operator Liquid Telecommunications, part of Zimbabwean-owned Econet Wireless Group,...
Posted Online: 25 January 2012
An unconfirmed report in the Tanzania Daily News says that the industry regulator, the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), will soon implement new rules requir...
Posted Online: 25 January 2012
Zambia’s President Michael Sata spoke out in an effort to reassure foreign
investors over the country’s possible reversal of a sale of the state-owned
telecom operator Zamt...
Posted Online: 24 January 2012
Lagos — DStv Mobile last week introduced the Walka into the Nigerian market, a DVB-H handheld TV device which will enable DSTV subscribers to watch television on the move.
S...
Posted Online: 24 January 2012
Government will not meet its self-imposed deadline of April 2012 to switch on digital terrestrial television, says communications minister Dina Pule, who now expects services w...
Posted Online: 24 January 2012
The National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana has announced the setting of new telecoms interconnect termination rates to replace the existing regime, which was set up i...
Posted Online: 24 January 2012
Internet Solutions (IS), Telkom South Africa’s principal rival in the country’s wholesale broadband market, is reportedly investigating the option of moving into Asia, with the...
Posted Online: 24 January 2012
Airtel, Ghana's fastest growing network with the most innovative products has upgraded its 3.5G service to 3.75G. The upgraded service aims at offering world class third genera...
Posted Online: 23 January 2012
Kuwait’s Hits Telecom announced on Thursday it was looking to boost its
presence in Africa and noted it was currently holding discussions with service
providers in both Lib...
Posted Online: 23 January 2012
Ghanaian mobile start-up Glo Mobile has kicked off its launch programme by unveiling a ‘Number Reservation Campaign’, giving new users the chance to reserve a ‘023-3’ number on...
Posted Online: 23 January 2012
Zamtel Mobile, the wireless operating arm of national fixed line operator Zambia Telecommunications Company Limited (Zamtel), has announced that it has passed the one million s...
Posted Online: 23 January 2012
Black-out in businesses leads the economy of Benin to be deeply
disrupted
For...
Posted Online: 23 January 2012
In response to continued unsubstantiated news reports appearing in the Zambian media regarding LAP GreenN’s purchase of its 75% stake in Zamtel, the newly appointed Chairman of...
Posted Online: 20 January 2012
Jeffrey Hedberg has resigned as Altech’s chief operating officer less than nine months after joining the JSE-listed technology group, adding to a growing exodus of top manageme...
Posted Online: 20 January 2012
Industry stakeholders have continued to express their views over the recently released draft National Information and Communications Technology ICT Policy, which seeks to harmo...
Posted Online: 20 January 2012
South Africa’s third mobile operator Cell C, has confirmed that former
Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig will be joining Cell C as CEO as from 1 April. Cell
C added that they de...
Posted Online: 20 January 2012
AccessKenya is upgrading its data centre at a cost of Sh30 million to expand its capacity and bring it at par with its rivals such as Safaricom.
Jonathan Somen, ...
Posted Online: 19 January 2012
Telkom Kenya has introduced a cheaper unlimited Internet access tariff in an effort to curb the growing dominance of Safaricom in the mobile data market.
The fir...
Posted Online: 19 January 2012
A spokesperson for Vodacom has announced that the company is close to resolving a dispute that has prevented major investment in the telco’s Congolese operation since 2009, rep...
Posted Online: 19 January 2012
According to BusinessDay, South African broadband provider Vox Telecom plans to launch a ‘low-cost satellite internet broadband’ service in June, and expects to sign up around ...
Posted Online: 19 January 2012
Ethiopian fixed line incumbent Ethio Telecom has slashed the cost of calls for its fixed line voice customers in response to a lower-than-expected increase in subscribers and r...
Posted Online: 19 January 2012
With Uganda’s mobile money taking off in recent months, Warid Telecom is confident that they are able to make a push into the market currently dominated by MTN.
According to...
Posted Online: 18 January 2012
Nigeria’s National Draft Policy within the Information and Communications Technology sector of the communications ministry said on Monday that it would like to see a unified re...
Posted Online: 18 January 2012
Tanzania will be boosting the access of the internet and lowering the cost of connectivity in the country when it plans to fork out over $189 million on laying the national fib...
Posted Online: 18 January 2012
With festive spending having left many consumers feeling more cost-sensitive, MTN is giving its contract customers a more cost-effective way to spend on airtime. The network is...
Posted Online: 18 January 2012
According to local media reports, Cote d’Ivoire mobile licensee Aircom is poised to launch commercial services this month – almost twelve years after receiving its original con...
Posted Online: 18 January 2012
Airtel Nigeria has announced a special SMS offer to help its customers connect with their family members, friends, and business associates during the difficult period.
Under...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Samsung Group, which includes Samsung Electronics Co, said on Tuesday it is raising its 2012 investment to a record $41.4 billion, as the South Korean conglomerate seeks to con...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Telecom Egypt has named Eng. Tarek Aboualam as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director with effect from 19 January 2012.
Telecom Egypt's current CEO, Eng. Mo...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Kenyan broadband provider Jamii Telecommunications Ltd (JTL) intends to spend around KES261 million (USD2.9 million) on a comprehensive upgrade of its entire fibre-optic networ...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Airtel Kenya chief operating officer Shivan Bhargava has responded to questions over the year-long delay surrounding its 3G network launch by promising that the belated service...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Telecel Zimbabwe has announced plans to invest USD70 million this year to expand and upgrade its GSM and fledgling 3G mobile networks, including a fibre-optic backbone infrastr...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Rene Meza, the immediate former CEO of Airtel, has scored a major coup on his previous employer after poaching two executives to Vodacom Tanzania, highlighting the talent chall...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
To demonstrate its commitment to key regulatory and policy changes, the government of Sierra Leone has released a summarized road map and activities leading to the full liberal...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
THE Affirmative Action Group is opposed to the appointment of another foreign managing director at Telecel Zimbabwe at the expense of locals and has called on Government to den...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dr. Mohamed Salem said in a press release on 11/01/2012 that he will head a delegation of high-ranking leaders of the mini...
Posted Online: 17 January 2012
THE Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran) is yet to receive an application from Telecom Namibia for the acquisition of Powercom, which trades as mobile operator...
Posted Online: 13 January 2012
The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has directed Airtel Zambia to immediately stop blocking numbers that contact the call centre more than th...
Posted Online: 13 January 2012
Tower management company Eaton Towers has secured a US$30m debt facility from Standard Bank, via Stanbic Bank Ghana and Standard Bank in SA, to expand its portfolio...
Posted Online: 13 January 2012
Nigeria’s Central Bank has announced it will issue more mobile money licenses in an effort to streamline the process and deliver more options to Nigerians.
The Deputy Direct...
Posted Online: 13 January 2012
Logistical challenges have held back work on the fibre optic cable linking Harare and Beitbridge through Bulawayo to the undersea cable in South Africa which was supposed to be...
Posted Online: 13 January 2012
Telkom’s consumer mobile operator, 8ta, said on Wednesday it is offering a once-off data bundle consisting of 60GB of data for anytime use and 60GB for use between 12am and 5...
Posted Online: 12 January 2012
ICT minister Dr.Ruhakana Rugunda has asked the new board of the National Information Technology Authority (NITA) to expedite the implementation of e-government policy aimed at impr...
Posted Online: 12 January 2012
The government of Sierra Leone has published a timeline outlining a series of steps towards the revision of the country’s telecommunications legislation and liberalisation of...
Posted Online: 12 January 2012
Mozambique’s third mobile phone operator, Movitel, has confirmed the official launch of its operations throughout the country, albeit on ‘an experimental basis’. ...
Posted Online: 12 January 2012
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has met with Qtel’s chairman Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammad Bin Saud al-Thani to discuss further investment from the Qatar based company in ...
Posted Online: 12 January 2012
Safaricom has appointed a new head for its technical division from rival France Telecom, completing the reorganisation plan that saw the firm trim its management to cut reporting l...
Posted Online: 11 January 2012
Maputo — Mozambique's third mobile phone operator, Movitel, has announced the official start of its operations, throughout the country, on an experimental basis.
According t...
Posted Online: 11 January 2012
Rudi Jansen, Group CEO of MWEB, has resigned after 15 years of working at the company.
He will be leaving MWEB at the end of February 2012, after which he will be pursuing new bus...
Posted Online: 11 January 2012
Amid continued debate over the sale of Zambian fixed line incumbent of Zamtel to LAP Green Networks (LAP Green) of Libya, the latter is reported to be deeply concerned regarding su...
Posted Online: 11 January 2012
MTN Swaziland has admitted that users of its long-delayed 3G network are experiencing problems with the service due to a lack of bandwidth. Corporate affairs manager Mpumelelo Makh...
Posted Online: 11 January 2012
Lagos — MTN Nigeria has launched the international version of its teleconferencing solution, aimed at bringing effective collaborations among businesses and individuals by re...
Posted Online: 10 January 2012
The Ministry of Communications Technology has released a draft of the national Information and Communications Technology (ICT) policy for the country as it called on all stakeholde...
Posted Online: 10 January 2012
Kenya’s largest mobile-phone operator, Safaricom, continues to show robust movement on the country’s stock market, leaving analysts expecting continued growth.
The boo...
Posted Online: 10 January 2012
The Zambian government has said it would reverse the sale of the country’s Zambia Telecommunication Company, or Zamtel, after there were allegations of corruption and fraud d...
Posted Online: 10 January 2012
Vimpelcom and Algeria’s Ministry of Finance have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the sale of a majority stake in Orascom Telecom Algerie (OT...
Posted Online: 10 January 2012
Research In Motion is reportedly exploring the possibility of licensing its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 platform to competitors such as HTC and Samsung, Jefferies &a...
Posted Online: 09 January 2012
The Public Accounts and Public Enterprises Select Committees of the National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted and considered the activity reports and financial statements ...
Posted Online: 09 January 2012
According to the latest statistics from the National Communications Authority (NCA), Vodafone Ghana has overtaken Millicom International Cellular’s Tigo Ghana unit as the cou...
Posted Online: 09 January 2012
Malawian telecoms company Celcom Limited, which was awarded a dual fixed and mobile telephony licence by the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) in May 2011, has sai...
Posted Online: 09 January 2012
Rwandatel's market leadership of the data segment is under severe test from its competitors such as Tigo as the latter woos clients with free offers of Internet connectivity at its...
Posted Online: 05 January 2012
ICANN, an independent body responsible for organizing the Internet, plans to press ahead with plans to expand the number of possible website addresses despite criticism from indust...
Posted Online: 05 January 2012
Mobile telecommunication firms are set to open a new battle-front with the communications regulator after they appealed to be exempted from paying licence fees at the current rates...
Posted Online: 05 January 2012