Mitec Telecom Inc. announced a new contract to provide its Very Small Aperture Satellite Terminal product, also known as a VSAT Block up Converter for a major cellular network operator in Africa. Financial terms were not disclosed

A leading broadcaster of African television over broadband internet has noticed a surge in the number of Kenyan viewers and others around the world avidly following disturbing political developments in Kenya. Africast-TV streams real-time and archived programming over the internet…

Damage to an undersea cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday has been blamed for major Internet outages across Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, bringing many businesses to a standstill and leaving others struggling to cope.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – A new product launched by leading Internet Service Provider (ISP), Web Africa, offers an innovative solution to the headache of managing multiple ADSL accounts within a company. The product, DSL Groups, allows an ADSL master…

Mitec Telecom Inc. has announced a new contract to provide its Very Small Aperture Satellite Terminal product, also known as a VSAT Block up Converter for a major cellular network operator in Africa.

Johannesburg, South Africa– Pebbletree Consulting and MTN Business are offering South African businesses a complete, integrated solution that extends the functionality of their SAP systems to mobile employees.

New analysis from growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan, Selected African Fixed Telecommunications Operator CAPEX Trends, finds that capital expenditure on fixed telecommunications in Africa was at least $195 million in 2006.

Specialist Telecommunications company Multimatics now guarantees cost savings for clients. This is good news for South African businesses, and a sure sign that the local telecomms sector continues to evolve at a rapid pace.

Investment in African telecommunications is set to rise with undersea cables being the most active segment, a newly released report shows.

Following a trade mission to South Africa last week, Irish mobile services company ChangingWorlds has signed a deal with the country’s biggest mobile operator, Vodacom, to supply intelligent content discovery and subscriber intelligence for its mobile internet infrastructure. Vodafone has…

Huge Group has announced that Rajen Pillay, current operations director of Orion Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of JSE listed Vox Telecom, will be joining their board of directors. Pillay has 18 years’ corporate telecommunications experience.

Uganda has got the fourth national telecommunications operator following the launching of Warid Telecoms on Wednesday night.

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has said the extension of the world’s first borderless roaming to the sub region by Celtel will greatly boost the search for a greater integration of the economies of West African States.…

Nigeria has beaten South Africa in the roll-out of the DVB-H mobile TV… Details Nigeria, MultiChoice Africa’s local business partner in Nigeria, has launched Africa’s first commercial mobile broadcast TV service in the city of Abuja. The launch places Nigeria…

Uganda’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector has registered a double digit growth since 2000 and grew by 33 percent in 2006/2007, according to a report released by the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA).

President Musa Yar’Adua has directed that Galaxy Backbone PLC be moved from the Ministry of Science and Technology to the Presidency to bring the government-owned infrastructure service provider under the direct supervision of Aso Rock.