During a protest yesterday over unpaid wages, President of the Senior Staff Association of Communication, Transport and Corporations (SSACTAC), Suleimaan Awalloo, threatened to shut down the SAT-3 network, which provides backbone for most of the other telecommunication companies and some…

MTN has announced that is will sell shares to Zambian institutions in order to broaden the ownership of the company and strengthen its roots in the country, said MTN Zambia CEO Per Eriksson.

Intel unveiled features of its new version of Intel-powered classmate design at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) at San Francisco today.

In a meeting with journalists in Abuja, Bayo Ligali, CEO of Zain Nigeria has said the group will spend $1bn per annum in Nigeria till 2011. Ligali said Zain had also expanded its borderless network known as, “One Network,” from…

As power costs rise and the progress of connecting rural areas to mobile services remains slow, Kenyan mobile telecom provider Safaricom has set up 100 base stations powered by solar and wind energy at a cost of 250 million Kenya…

The government of Botswana has invested US$100 million in Africa’s second biggest submarine cable project to bolster its plans to link with Europe via the east and west coasts of Africa.

NIGERIA Telecommunication Company (NITEL), has thrown open a bid for a strategic core investor who is expected to revamp the telecom company. Transnational Corporation (Transcorp), which acquired 51 percent stakes of NITEL has been unable to turn the company around,…

Research and Markets reports that Egypt has become one of the leading Internet markets in Africa in terms of users, international bandwidth and services offered.

Globacom was adjudged the best telecoms company of the year, The best mobile company of the year and best telecoms investor of the year at the annual Nigeria Telecoms Awards, organised by Logica Communication, publishers of Telecom News, an industry…

Rwanda’s news agency reports that President Kagame has said that the ongoing broadband rollout program will ease health service delivery for its rural people.

MTN has for the second year running ranked the most preferred employer by fresh graduates in a survey carried out by Exquisite Solution.

State-owned operator Ethiopia Telecom Corporation (ETC) has announced that the first phase of its fixed wireless and mobile CDMA2000 network has been completed, following a rollout by China’s ZTE.

Vodafone today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a 70 percent stake in Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited (“Ghana Telecom”) for a total of US Dollar 900 million (Pound Sterling 483 million) on a debt-free, cash-free basis.

The telecoms cable will be the first to reach Africa’s eastern shores, linking southern and east African countries to Europe and Asia.

Pangea Outsourcing Services, a growing Cape Town business offering online English tuition to clients worldwide, found that coordinating staff teaching shifts telephonically or via email was becoming more time consuming for the office manager and adding to the running costs…

Channel Data, an authorised distributor of Overland Storage products has released three new offerings designed to help organisations address their data storage needs while minimising their carbon footprint.