Malawi will host Africa’s biggest ICT Forum called ‘Annual Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum’ from the 26-28 August.

MEC for Education, Yousuf Gabru, opened the first solar-powered school computer laboratory today. The Khanya Project of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) installed the laboratory at Bernadino Heights Secondary School in Kraaifontein.

A MTN service centre has been open at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2(MMA2), in Nigeria. Travelers now passing through the terminal can have access to MTN’s innovative products as experience the best services.

Integr8 Telecoms (Pty) Ltd., a company within the Integr8 Group, has announced its intention to establish a competitive presence within the rapidly developing local telecommunications services market. The company, in association with several joint venture partners, is to target the…

Nigeria’s future of broadband will be announced on 20 August at a forum that will be hosted by ITWorld International Magazine, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Starcomms and Ericsson.

Charles Odiase, head of Glo Gateway, has announced that Globacom is said to spread across Africa, especially because its Glo Submarine Cable will have 15 landing points in Africa

Nigerian operators like Globacom and Zain have come up with a solution to be able to give their customers a better service, by letting them contact their loved ones at affordable rates whenever they are out of the country.

Telkom and Unions will continue today. Telkom has revised its wage offer from 10.5 to 11 percent. The talks come into place after to unions.

In a recent report done by South-Africa based telecommunication analysts, BMI-TechKnowledge, it was revealed that South Africa still relies on expensive satellite connection to access the internet.

According to predictions by research and Markets, there will be an estimated 73 mobile phone subscribers per 100 people by 2010, the total number of subscribers reaching 57.3 million.

Small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) are among the businesses that gain the most by embracing mobile technologies to become more alert and efficient.

Kenya Data Networks (KDN) has once again established its position as a leading player in East Africa’s technology sector with a 7 billion Kenyan shilling fiber termination point in Mombasa.

Egypt has become of the leading Internet markets in Africa in terms of users, international bandwidth and services offered. The country is connected by several international submarine fibre optic cables together with a national fibre backbone infrastructure.