Listed telecommunication firm Safaricom is expected to begin technical trial of the 4G (fourth generation) technology on its network within the next two months. The roll out of the next generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology (4G) will be carried out by Chinese ompany Huawei Technologies. The two companies signed a three year strategic partnership [...]
Just a few weeks ago, Cell C launched a massive brand campaign where they admitted what every telecommunications subscriber in South Africa already knows: the country’s cellular industry has a real problem with customer service. Consumers in South Africa are crying out for a customer service champion who will finally do something about the service [...]
Nashua Limited has been appointed a Preferred Partner of Hewlett-Packard (HP) South Africa, in the hope of leveraging not only the equity of these two great brands, but exploring new markets as well. The newly found partnership will enable HP to gain access to Nashua’s leading market share within the office automation market and capitalising [...]
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library, more commonly known as ITIL, is currently in its third iteration, offering a common language as well as best practice guidelines for IT service management processes. ITIL is designed to help organisations achieve the execution of strategy and improve performance, and many organisations have made significant investments into such initiatives. [...]
The ongoing rate price war among mobile operators in Kenya has left Zain Kenya subscribers smiling after the network slashed its call rates by 50% to all networks in Kenya. Zain Kenya now has the most attractive call rates on the Kenyan market. Customers will now pay only Kshs 3 to all networks, and one [...]
TEACHERS in Kenya can now acquire laptops complete with broadband internet connection and other software from Safaricom at affordable rates. This follows the signing of a partnership between Kenya’s leading telecoms firm, Safaricom, Equity Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Kenya Institute of Education and teachers’ main employer body, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Speaking during the signing [...]
ZIMBABWE’S largest cellular mobile company, Econet Wireless is now offering a comprehensive per-second billing system that applies across networks and on international calls. Econet is also the first cellular mobile company in the country to introduce a 3G network aimed at boosting internet communication to those that wish to use internet services even when travelling, [...]
HP recently announced that it has submitted to 3PAR Inc. a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of 3PAR for $24.00 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $1.6 billion. The proposed transaction represents a 33.3 percent premium above the price proposed by Dell Inc. HP’s proposal is not subject to [...]
Leading Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom will soon be able to offer new, personalised services to its subscribers. The operator is deploying Nokia Siemens Networks’ Subscriber Data Management (SDM) platform to pull together subscriber data that currently resides on multiple databases. The platform will allow Safaricom to gain better insight into the needs and likes of [...]
Alcatel-Lucent will extend the West Africa Cable System (WACS) from Portugal to the UK to meet the increasing need for capacity driven by broadband services penetration. Spanning 2,000 km and operating at 40 gigabit per second (40G), this new section will increase the overall design capacity from 3.8 Terabit/s (Tbit/s) to 5.12 Tbit/s, equal to [...]
MOBILE subscriptions in Kenya went up 2.7% to hit 19.9 million in the first quarter of 2010, compared to 19.4 million in the previous quarter. Mobile penetration reached 51% in the first quarter of the year. In statistics released by the industry’s regulator, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), the population under mobile coverage stood [...]