Allied Technologies Limited (Altech) today announced remarkable half-year results for the period ended 31 August 2008. Revenue increased by 13% to R4.5 billion, the company’s operating profit increased by 34% to R409 million and headline earnings per share was up by 19% to 261 cents.

The Connect Africa Summit ended yesterday in Rwanda with World Bank, European Commission and African Development Bank (AfDB) announcing investment commitments amounting to over $55 billion, with the information and communication technology (ICT) sector taking the lead.

Increasing workforce mobility may be a strategic imperative but companies must be aware that it also poses one of the greatest security risks to company information, says Derek Wiggill, 3Com’s regional sales director for Africa.

Despite turmoil in world financial markets over the last year the trillion USD mobile industry continues to confound expectations with spectacular accelerating growth. A new report from Portio Research reveals that over half the world now uses a mobile phone and predicts that 80% of the world’s population will be doing so by the end [...]

Despite having infrastructural challenges MTN Rwanda is due to renew its licence to operate as a communication service provider in Rwanda, according to the MTN Group Integrated Report of the year 2007.

Mobile phone operators in Tanzania are among large taxpayers that have come under the spotlight as the Tanzania Revenue Authority moves to plug loopholes in the regulations in order to reduce the room for “tax planning.”

Mobile phone service provider, Safaricom, has unveiled lower calling rates for its subscribers that take effect from Monday.
Both PrePay and PostPay subscribers will enjoy new lower calling rates at Sh5 from 10 pm to midnight, and Sh2.50 from midnight to 6 am everyday, including weekends.

Link Technologies from China has set up a $500,000 phone assembling plant in Rwanda that is producing 200 mobile phones a day.

Sun Microsystems has announced a partnership with Asia’s leading technology training provider NIIT that will support the development of talent in Africa. This initiative is part of Sun’s commitment to improving and expanding grass-roots skills in IT in Africa.

South African phone firm MTN Group Ltd has approached International Business Machines Corp., or IBM, to provide information technology support and services in a deal estimated to cost $2 billion and modelled on the work the US company has done for three Indian cellphone operators.

Local HandyMAP distributor PDAShop.co.za has launched the NCS-Navi R150+ (plus) Bluetooth GPS Logger, a world-class travel recorder GPS data logger, boasting the latest Media Tech (MTK) 51-channel 5th generation GPS technology. PDAShop is once again making history by introducing the latest GPS technology from NCS-Navi, one of the world’s foremost GPS suppliers.