CELTEL INTERNATIONAL BV is set to commence full scale operations in the telecommunication industry by the first quarter of this year. The company which has already paid $115 million as part of the transaction purse of Western Telesystems Limited (WESTEL)…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The man was nervous. He was afraid, he said, of the secret police. So he advised me to hire a random taxi. I was to park at a certain church. And there, I was to wait.…

Media Blackout in Kenya – Mobile Phones play a vital role in covering Kenya Elections. AfricaNews.com makes use of internet enabled mobile phones to report on the election crisis in Kenya. Local African journalist, with advanced mobile phone and a…

Visafone Communications Limited has closed a deal to buy 100 per cent stakes in Bourdex Telecom, a private telecoms company headquartered in Aba, Abia State. With good footprint in the telecoms market in the eastern part of the country it…

The crisis prompted by Kenya’s 27 December elections has left large numbers of people stranded in various parts of the country due to insecurity on the roads and general uncertainty. Many Nairobi residents and migrant workers travelled “up-country” to spend…

ARUN SARIN, chief executive of the mobile-phone giant Vodafone, is poised to reap a £45m bonanza from the turnround in the company’s fortunes. The size of his potential windfall – the value of shares and options in the company –…

Despite the petitioning of NigComSat by well-meaning telecom pundits and economists over its seeking undue nudging from the presidency, it is saddening and debasing that President Yar’Adua would mandate the Nigerian Communications Commission to grant a mobile operating license “immediately”…

Motorola, Inc. announced that it has received orders valued at $70 million from Celtel Nigeria, part of Zain Group, to further expand and enhance the operator’s GSM coverage in the Southern part of Nigeria.

Visafone, one of the Unified Access Service licensees, crept into the Nigerian telecoms market last week with a promise to make the kind of impact never experienced in the entire history of the rapid growing Nigerian telecom sector.

Vodafone’s bid to chase growth in emerging markets was dealt a severe blow today when a planned £5 billion deal to boost its stake in a South African mobile operator collapsed. The mobile phone giant had been in negotiations for…

As the newly licensed cdma and Gsm operators starts breaking ground for roll out plans, indications are very strong that their might be some displacement in the Nigerian Telecoms Race. Clear favorites and pioneers like Mtn, Celtel and Glo are…

Commercial WiFi hotspots face a dim future in South Africa – at least among corporate workers on the move, a new research study by World Wide Worx reveals.

The construction of a 10,000 kilometre undersea fibre-optic cable is to bring huge improvements to Mozambique’s Internet and telecommunications access.

Multi-tasking, or doing more than one activity at a time, is a way of life for everyone these days. Between work, family and social life, people are finding themselves busier than ever.

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., a global leader in mobile messaging interoperability and the delivery of mobile content, today announced further growth within the African mobile market, consolidating its position as the number one provider of international SMS…

Nigeria’s Second National Operator and Third Generation (3G) compliant telecommunications company, Globacom Limited, has taken its vision of positioning itself on the continent to a higher level by commissioning the first portion of its $700 million fiber optic cable to…