Seacom’s 15 000 km fibre optic undersea cable, linking Southern and East Africa, Europe and South Asia, is scheduled to go live in June 2009.

On August 29, Nigeria’s telecommunication Globacom will mark its 5th anniversary. Globacom was launched in 2003, with the launch of GSM in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This was the 4th GSM service provider to launch operations; two years after…

Ahmed Rufai, Managing Director of Nigeria Communications Satellite has once again said that the nation’s communications satellite that was launched into orbit is an important IT infrastructure to overcome the digital divides.

The continuous Telkom price hikes have left many customers in despair and with no other choice but to disconnect their land line connections.

FishText, used to text messages to destinations across the globe without using mobile operators, has attracted more than 100 000 registered users since its launch three weeks ago.

South Africa may not meet its target to switch from digital broadcasting, even though cabinet assured that the plan would go ahead.

According to BMI TechNowledge, Africa’s mobile market has been growing, Internet and broadband access rates remained low, regulatory involvement could help bring prices, market services available and enable growth.

Yesterday hundreds of activists in Ghana protested outside the parliament against the sale of West Africa’s third largest mobile group, Ghana Telecom to Vodafone.

Due to submarine and terrestrial fibre-optic cable developments gaining momentum, prices of bandwidth are set to fall in the near future.

Head of Neotel’s network implementation, Imran Abbas announced that Neotel will begin constructing a 5000km national fibre optic network with or without MTN.

According to reports released by BMI-TechKnowledge advertising revenue is expected to grow more than 10 times to as much as R2.15 billion over the next four years.

International telecommunications operators from Europe, the Middle East and Asia are likely to look at Africa to maintain growth in their businesses.

Satellite Communications Limited (NIGCOMSAT) and Digitech have signed a commercial joint venture agreement to provide low cost direct to home services to all Nigerians.

The department of Communications’ digital migration process plan on improving service delivery and further e-governance.

Mweb Africa launched a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services for the African continent that will allow VSAT customers to make and receive voice calls to or from anywhere in the world at low rates.

Tata Teleservices said today that it plans on investing USD 2 billion in roll out GSM-based mobile services in India. The company plans on launching the service by the end of the year, but is concerned about the slow pace…