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…

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