Bharti Airtel, a leading emerging markets telecom services provider, today said that its Board of Directors has approved the acquisition of 100 % of Telecom Seychelles Limited, the leading telecom operator of Seychelles, for an enterprise value of USD 62 million.
With this acquisition, Bharti Airtel will expand its African footprint to 16 countries and its [...]
With a population of one billion, Africa hosts 86 millions of Internet users. The penetration rate is 8.7% which is rather good compared to the world average of 26.9%.
DotAfrica is that specific Internet namespace for Africa which is likely to be applied for operation during the next round of new Generic Top-Level Domains (GTLds) which [...]
According to a new report from Pyramid Research, total broadband users in Africa will increase from 40 million in 2010 to 92 million in 2015 at a CAGR of 18 percent, driven by new undersea cables and WIMAX connections. Broadband penetration rate will also increase from 3.2 percent in 2010 to 6.8 percent in 2015, [...]
Business Continuity Management has not been top of mind in Africa in the past, but the concept is growing quickly as new legislation and corporate governance regulations take hold for both public and private sector organisations. Despite the growing awareness of Business Continuity on the continent, however, setting up Business Continuity solutions and recovery centres [...]
The industry has been talking about wind power for a long time, however, the technology has improved massively over the last few years and we are now starting to see commercial base stations in Africa being powered by either wind-alone or hybrid wind-solar solutions.
Previously the technology wasn’t really mature enough for deployment on a mass-scale. [...]
Gateway Business, a subsidiary of Vodacom, has announced continued investment in its networks across East and West Africa. Gateway Business selected ECI Telecom, a global provider of networking infrastructure solutions, for the network upgrade on both national and pan-African networks.
ECI’s next generation XDM® multi-service provisioning platform will enable Gateway Business to deliver better node-to-node connection [...]
Essar Telecom CEO Jayant Khosla, has accepted an offer from Bharti Airtel to head up its operations in seven African countries, this according to The Times of India
Last week, Bharti Airtel announced the closure of its $9-billion purchase of African operations of Kuwait’s Zain Telecom, and said it would move swiftly and aggressively to [...]
Database 360, a division of Data and lead generation specialists CG Consulting, has unveiled its latest African database, a comprehensive resource of companies and executives throughout the African continent.
CG Consulting sales and marketing director Louise Robinson says Database 360 is the fruition of a long term project. “Database 360 is a database developed specifically to [...]
While companies in Africa have historically been slower off the mark in using IT to automate business processes, they are fast catching up and those still relying on manual systems are no longer commonplace.
This is according to Paul Marketos, Managing Director at Bluekey Software Solutions, who says that just seven years ago it was not [...]
SAP Education is offering visitors to South Africa during the football tournament an opportunity to improve their SAP qualifications by offering free certification from 21 June to 16 August 2010.
This offer is valid for the 1st 50 confirmed bookings.
“We are expecting many thousands of visitors to South Africa during the period of the football spectacular, [...]
France Telecom has announced plans to invest as much as 7 billion Euros ($9.3 billion) in deals across Africa and Middle East in the next five years.