The NEPAD e-Africa Commission and 5-P Holdings, LLC signed, 24 October 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Pretoria, South Africa, to construct the submarine segment of the NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network, UHURUNET.
The submarine fibre optic network will encircle the entire continent of Africa, with connections to Europe,...
The sixteen countries covered by the report are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
For mobile subscribers, the top 5 markets in West Africa by number of subscribers are (figures rounded up): Nigeria (21.5 million),...
President Umaru Yar’Adua has directed the National Communications Commission (NCC) to grant Frequency and Operating Licence to Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited.
A statement by Mr Niyi Ibietan, NIGCOMSAT head, Corporate Communications, in Abuja, said the President’s approval is contained in a letter issued by the Secretary to the Government...
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets.
Along the way, he's made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role...
According to information that was made available to HANA's correspondent in Lagos, Dangote and Intercellular have been talking for sometime now and that talks are ongoing.
Dangote is bidding for the FWO through its telecommunications subsidiary, Alheri Engineering. Aheri had in January won a license to provide 3G services in...
The mobile market in the Middle East and Africa seemed to slow down in the second quarter of 2007. Indeed, we have to go back four years, to the second quarter of 2003, to find its equal.
In both periods, the market grew by 8.0%, but while this implied...
Technology from UK-based SpinVox has enabled South African cellular carrier Vodacom to launch what it claims is Africa’s first voicemail-to-text service.
The idea for SpinVox’s speech-to-text software was born in 2003 when Christina Domecq, co-founder and CEO of the company, became frustrated while listening to her voicemails after a...
Sudan Telecommunications Co, or Sudatel, plans to buy more African mobile licences and expand its business in troubled southern Sudan, a senior company executive said.
“If the opportunity arises we hope to expand in Africa,” Zainelabdin A Zainelabdin, director of Sudatel’s Executive Office told Zawya Dow Jones.
Telecoms services across Africa...
NIGERIA’s mobile market, confirmed as the continent’s most robust and fastest growing, appears set to even break the banks as it is recording unprecedented investment inflow as the country enters its most active quarter with a flattering $2.130 billion capital inject in only two deals.
First, was the country’s leading...
Lap Green Networks, a Libyan company is to pay $100 million (about Frw54.5 billion) for the shares in Rwandatel.
This is more than the $25 million the defunct Terracom, an American firm was to pay government for the same company. The company also promises to invest $317 million (about Frw...
A French company, Alcatel-Lucent, has won a $82m tender to lay the East Africa Marine System (TEAM) cable to link the Kenyan coast with the United Arab Emirates.
Information and communications technology permanent secretary, Dr Bitange Ndemo, said the company won the contract because of the duration for completion of...
Private investors who want to buy a stake in Kenya’s premier high-speed Internet link have six weeks to do so, project consultants have said.
The announcement which was made during an investors briefing last Friday drew immediate reaction from some of the potential investors who dismissed the timeline as too...
Uganda has 14 million potential mobile phone users, but the current providers have a combined four million subscribers.
This accounts for less than a fifth of the would-be market, a HITS Telecom survey shows.
HITS Telecom officials described as false the belief that the market was saturated.
They argued that the 10...
Bangalore, Oct. 10 Google is now on your mobile. Shortcodes and search have mingled to allow the 200 million mobile subscribers in India access to Google’s search engine database of Web sites on the Internet.
The firm has announced the launch of Google SMS. This does not require a computer...
The International Telecommunication Union today announced that the Connect Africa Summit, October 29-30 in Kigali, Rwanda will have as its goal to help bring connectivity to Africa and promote "Connect Africa," a new partnership that seeks to expand the information and communication technology infrastructure of the continent, especially Internet...
Company introduces the Nokia E51 device and reveals Mobile Unified Communications strategy to further improve employee productivity and cost-savings through business mobility.
London, UK - At an Enterprise Mobility Day event today, Nokia further executed on its commitment to drive the adoption of business mobility by addressing the needs of...
