Nokia is the world’s most sustainable technology company according to Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes Review 2010. Nokia was chosen as “Technology Supersector Leader” making it number one across the entire global technology sector for the second time in row.
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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 [...]
South Africa’s third mobile operator, Cell C, has commercially launched Africa’s first HSPA+ 900 network.
The company officially switched on the high-speed network, dubbed 4GS – 4 Great Speed and 4 Great Service – in Port Elizabeth, South Africa as part of its nationwide network rollout. Using world-leading software-defined radio technology, Port Elizabeth will for [...]
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 [...]
Cote d’Ivoire’s first independent tower company “SWAP Technologies and Telecomms Limited” (SWAP) has gone live with its built-to-suit telecoms co-location cell sites, the first cell sites built for co-location went on air in Cote d’Ivoire in August 2010. SWAP commenced telecoms services operations in Abidjan in 2009 with the objectives of providing [...]
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 [...]
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 shilling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]