Senegal has developed one of Africa’s most modern and expensive Telecommunication infrastructures. Senegal was one of the first African countries to introduce ADSL, which was soon replaced with dial-up as an Internet method.

Cellular network Zain, formally know as Celtel, hope to gain a commercial advantage over rivals such as MTN and Vodacom, after extending its One Network scheme across Africa and the Middle East and eliminating high roaming fees.

At the official launch of Zain (formerly Celtel) Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki voiced his stand on the reduction of calling charges.

Vodacom’s sale of 6.25 percent of its shares to Black investors has angered many in the telecom sector.

Redwood City, US: August 4, 2008 – Clickatell, leading provider of global mobile messaging solutions, today announced that CNN International is trusting Clickatell to bring mobile SMS coverage of this month’s Beijing Olympic Games to fans around the world.

Celtel Nigeria Limited has undergone another name change. It is now to be known as Zain Nigeria Limited. This re-branding is expected to take effect in 14 countries across Africa. These include Burkina Faso, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the…

SMC Networks South Africa, in conjunction with its distribution partner Drive Control Corporation (DCC), has confirmed the arrival of a new batch of next generation networking solutions to meet the ever increasing requirements in the market.

Networks Unlimited, a Sub-Saharan distributor of IT Security and Networking Solutions based in South Africa today announced the company’s growth over the past three years has been a staggering 68%, 47% and a phenomenal 101% respectively!

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA), which is responsible for ensuring a fair and transparent bidding process, named only seven companies who had officially bought into the bid for a 3rd fixed license

Celtel Zambia has announced plans to spend some US$70 million on its network this year in an effort to boost its subscriber base from 2.3 million to 2.7 million.

Malaysian company, M-mobile is investing more than US$3 million in setting up the first mobile-phone handset manufacturing plant in the country with a capacity to assemble between 50,000 and 70,000 mobile phones a month.

Nigeria’s Globacom, has expanded its prepaid roaming service to six additional countries. Glo Mobile subscribers will now have outbound roaming service in Spain, South Africa, Belgium, Turkey, Ukraine and Algeria.

By the middle of next year, the 9,500 kilometres submarine telecommunications cable being laid under the sea by Second National Operator, Globacom, would berth in the Nigerian under waters as its billed to be completed sometime in May.

By Philip Mwakio Mobile phone provider, Safaricom has launched broadband Internet service with speeds of between 3.2 and 7.2 Megabytes per second (Mbps) in Mombasa.

Sahara Computers has released its latest range of Sahara desktop PCs to the market. The latest offering is designed to meet the needs of a growing end user base as resellers experience an increase in demand for competitively priced, multi-functional…