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Issue no 720 22nd August 2014The 7th edition of DCD Converged Johannesburg Monday, 13th October 2014Join us for this engaging learning opportunity and the chance to network with over 250 data center...
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Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Orange Uganda Reiterates Commitment to Supporting Local InnovationAs Orange Uganda presented five mobile applications developed by students at last year’s Community...
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Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Vodafone’s Michael Joseph receives PICMET Technology Management AwardVodafone director of mobile money and former Safaricom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Joseph has...
View ArticleUnitel valued at USD7bn; PT stake USD1.31bn
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Angola’s leading cellco Unitel has been valued at USD7 billion, and Portugal Telecom’s (PT’s) minority stake at USD1.31 billion, according to a report released by Brazilian...
View ArticleAirtel inks Tramigo partnership in Sub-Saharan Africa
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Tramigo has announced a new partnership with Airtel for the Congo Brazzaville market. The partnership is intended to offer real time vehicle tracking to Airtel Congo...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Tech Industry Emerges
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014As people go online to meet and interact with friends and relatives or put up their latest photos, young homegrown entrepreneurs are creating money making opportunities and...
View ArticleM4JAM and Webfluentual: Local technology, international potential
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014The internet is full of get-rich-quick schemes. Just like the secrets to magical weight loss, these schemes are exactly what they appear to be – too good to be true. But...
View ArticleSAP to Accelerate Innovation and Growth in Africa With Up to US $500 Million...
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014SAP has announced a seven-year plan to up-skill local African talent and drive sustainable innovation and growth in Africa. With more than 1,300 customers across the...
View ArticleCargo clearance in Kenya goes digital
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Cargo clearance in Kenya has been digitalised, with importers of cargo required to apply for their Import Declaration Forms (IDFs) through the Kenya National Electronic...
View ArticleInternet – In Brief
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014- South Africa operator Telkom announced that its ISPs will enforce its Fair Usage Policy (FUP) in the spirit of enhancing the internet experience of all its users. Telkom...
View ArticleHuawei Uganda officially launches the Mobile Broadband Demo truck show
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Kampala, Uganda, August 18th, 2014: Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, officially launched the Mobile Broadband...
View ArticleTelecoms – In Brief
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014- Fears have emerged regarding the future of Aircom (Cafe Mobile), the Cote d’Ivoire’s sixth mobile operator, with Ivorian telecoms watchdog L’Autorite de Regulation des...
View ArticleSudatel posts H1 net profit of USD24m; agrees sale of Ghanaian unit
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Sudatel Telecom Group (STG) has announced its preliminary results for the first half of 2014, reporting consolidated EBITDA of USD75 million, an increase of 17%...
View ArticleSmartphones to make 32% of all Egyptian mobile sales by 2016, says Sony
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Outlining the strides made in the Egyptian market, Sony Marketing Manager in the Middle East and Africa Younes Cherkaoui disucsses the company’s influence on the smart...
View ArticleMobilis is a leader in 3G in Algeria, says GSMA report
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014The World Association of mobile operators (GSMA) has released its report on telecommunications in Algeria. It reveals that the Mobilis branch mobile operator Algeria...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Lampposts to become broadband towers
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014MTN has begun replacing Johannesburg’s streetlight infrastructure with lampposts that double as cellular base stations, with hundreds of deployments planned before...
View ArticleTelecoms, Rates, Offers and Coverage
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Tanzania’s Daily News reports that mobile operator Airtel Tanzania has expanded its GSM network coverage with the launch of a new communication tower in the village of...
View ArticleSafaricom Slashes M-PESA Transaction Fees by 67% As Competition Looms
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014When M-PESA was introduced in 2007, there was no contender, no better service and it was all new to Kenyans. The service has garnered over 19.3 million customers, over...
View ArticleZain launches mobile financial service in Sudan
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Kuwait-based Zain Group, which provides telecoms services in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, has announced that its Sudanese wireless unit has launched the...
View ArticleNigeria: Coremobile launches ‘Quick Airtime’ recharge platform
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Coremobile has released its latest creation, www.quickairtime.com, a simple, secure and smart online application for airtime recharge, mobile top-up and prepaid re-up....
View ArticleNomanini mobile POS reaches a million transactions
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014Nomanini has announced that informal vendors and micro-entrepreneurs across Africa have made a million cash transactions using its tough terminal.The South African-based...
View ArticleSouth Africa becomes the first African country to get a Bitcoin vending machine
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014South Africa has installed its first Bitcoin vending machine, which gives users the ability to receive Bitcoin in exchange for rand.The Bitcoin vending machine is located...
View ArticleBroadband in Gulu and 4G in Accra – Two sides of the same coin for Africa’s...
Issue no 720 22nd August 2014A new ISP set up in Uganda’s remote north and 4G became available in Ghana from a new operator. Neither of these developments involved mobile operators and how they came...
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