Nokia  Siemens Networks and Motorola Solutions, Inc. today jointly announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has completed its acquisition of Motorola Solutions’ Networks assets paying US $975 million in cash. As of April 30 2011, responsibility for supporting customers of Motorola Solutions’ GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE products and services transfers to Nokia Siemens Networks. “The [...]

Huawei today filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against ZTE Corporation (ZTE) for patent and trade mark infringement. The lawsuits were filed on the basis that ZTE is infringing a series of Huawei’s patents relating to data card and LTE (Long Term Evolution) technologies and illegally used a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its [...]

Huawei Symantec, the provider of network security and storage appliance solutions, says its N8500 clustered NAS storage system achieved the industry’s highest results in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s (SPEC) SPECsfs2008 test. For the NFS and CIFS benchmarks, the N8500 achieved 636 036 and 712 664 Ops/Sec, respectively. This marks the second time that Huawei [...]

Porting Access Kenya has accused Safaricom of deliberately blocking its customers from porting to other mobile service providers. allAfrica.com reports today that Porting Access Kenya, the firm that manages the change of service provider, had received more than 43,000 port requests since the service was launched on April 1. Of those requests, only 10,000 had [...]

Google and the World Bank have joined hands towards supporting development in the war ravaged South Sudan with Diaspora-driven Mapathon. Following many years of civil war, Google and the World Bank have joined forces to train 60 South Sudanese in America with Mapathon, digitally mapped country knowledge for the development of their country. Addressing more [...]

Mobile operators in emerging markets need to make urgent adjustments to content strategies if they are to adapt to rapid shifts in the market, according to Ovum. In a new report*, the independent telecoms analyst claims that while telcos are currently the dominant force in the emerging markets mobile content space, this is set to [...]

In a bid to see mobile telephone voice call rates leveled, Safaricom and Telkom Kenya were disappointed that their efforts to keep further reductions in prices were not successful. On Wednesday, the government announced it would not intervene to halt the further falling in call rates in the country. The two mobile operators had hoped [...]

Information technology companies and the telecommunications sector in Uganda are hopeful that a recent batch of outsourcing graduates will help bolster the country’s efforts to increase IT infrastructure and progress in the country. Some 500 students of the Makerere University graduated with certificates in Business Process Outsourcing, a one-year course aimed at developing new outsourcing [...]

South African distributor, Core Group, has announced that the Apple iPad 2 will be available locally tomorrow (29 April 2011). The company has released a statement which lays out the recommended purchase price and retail outlets where the device will be available. The second generation of the iPad is lighter (by 80g, or 15%), and [...]

ITNewsAfrica.com interviewed Reshaad Sha, strategy director at Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group, who provided insights in the mobile connectivity growth in the next five years and the telecoms industry’s focus on the continent. ITNewsAfrica.com: According to Wireless Intelligence report published earlier this month, Africa has overtaken Western Europe in the number of mobile connections. What [...]

Egypt’s government-run fixed-line operator, Telecom Egypt, announced on Wednesday that its Chief Executive Officer Tarek Tantawy is to resign from his post to “pursue other career opportunities.” The announcement comes on the heels of Telecom Egypt’s annual financial report that saw the company’s profits increase in massive size. Chief Technology Officer Mohamed Abdel-Rahim Hassanein was [...]