HEWLETT Packard (HP) has constructed a newly designed data center in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi with aim of decreasing carbon emission.
The HP Managing Director for East Africa Ken Mbwaya said those who will benefit are financial service providers and government entities who will find the scalable and modular nature of HP Flexible DC a [...]
THE Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) has directed all mobile telephony operators to block subscribers that fail to meet the deadline on SIM card registration that has been extended by government.
The CCK said that subscribers whose numbers will not be on the data base by September 16 should consider themselves disconnected.
CCK Director General Charles Njoroge [...]
HUNDREDS of tech savvy entrepreneurs and developers gather at a web and mobile conference in Nairobi.
The over 1200 engineers, product managers, entrepreneurs, students and web developers are expected to discuss the future of web application development, and receive training on Google’s products and online business skills.
At the same time, Google also announced the Kenyan [...]
Bharti Airtel, which acquired the African Zain’s African assets a few months ago is seeking bids to set up towers in Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania. The Business Standard reports that the company would award contracts for infrastructure equipment and turnkey projects to build towers sometime next month.
Bharti, which acquired Zain’s African assets for $10.7 billion [...]
With the FIFA World Cup transforming South Africa’s infrastructure with high-speed rail systems, better roads and state-of-the-art power systems, now is the time for African businesses to also take economical advantage of the other benefit of the tournament – online technology.
This year’s CIO Africa summit promises to be the best to date with over 50 [...]
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 ceremony at [...]
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 at 86%, [...]
TELKOM Kenya has taken the initiative in the on-going mobile telephony war in the country by announcing the lowest on-net tariff of Sh2, and slashed its off-net tariff to Sh4 for its GSM customers.
The new tariff also comes with an additional benefit of free calls from 10 am – 5 pm for only Ksh 100 [...]
Kenya’s mobile telephony operators have welcomed the decision by the Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) to slash the inter-connect mobile phone tariffs from Sh4.21 to Sh2.21.
The reduction will come into effect on September 1. The current rates were introduced by the CCK in 2007 and are modelled on an annual reduction pattern.
In 2007 the fees [...]
LISTED telecoms operator Safaricom has denied trying to stifle the delivery of Zain’s traffic to its network, saying concerns raised by the company over Safaricom’s handling of traffic originating from Zain were somewhat premature.
Formed in 1997 Safaricom is the leading mobile network operator in Kenya, while Zain is a rival network.
“We must admit [...]
THE mobile war in Kenya between the two main mobile telephony providers, Zain Kenya and Safaricom, has further escalated with Zain accusing its competitor of employing dirty tactics.
Just a day after Zain lowered its calling rate to Sh. 3 across the network making it the lowest amongst the other three mobile telephony providers, Safaricom has [...]