Safaricom Kenya and Google have sealed a pact to deliver e-mail services direct to mobile phones. The partnership is expected to increase the number of internet users from the current 2.7 million to 4.4 million by virtue of Safaricom’s subscriber…

Charmaine Eggberry, vice president, of enterprise business unit, Europe,Middle East and Africa, Research in Motion (RIM), discusses how enterprises can adapt to an increasingly mobile workforce and the change in working practices. Facing the mobility challenge Over the last fifteen…

THE construction of the $650m (about sh1.1 trillion) undersea optic fibre cable project starts this week after a financial close was reached last week.

Nokia, one of the world’s leading provider of mobile phone services, has promised to release a new set of goodies in line with the company’s goal to promote the information society.

Tanzanian fishermen have benefited a great deal from the use of mobile phones in doing business with local communities. A study conducted by two students from Upsalla University, Sweden, in collaboration with the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT),…

A consortium led by France Telecom offered Sh26.1 billion ($390 million) to beat two competitors to a 51 per cent stake in Telkom Kenya. The price is Sh6 billion ($90 million) above what the Government transaction advisor – the International…

Telecom Egypt (TE) announced today it has signed two agreements with SEACOM Ltd and VSNL approximately worth $90m in relation to its TE North Submarine Cable Project, which was announced earlier this year.

As Africa’s telecommunications professionals are heading to Cape Town for their annual industry gathering AfricaCom on 21st and 22nd November, the continent’s market is still showing exceptional growth rates.

Article by Pieter Streicher, managing director at BulkSMS.com The Internet and cell phones have changed the sport of surfing forever. These new technologies give surfers access to weather and swell information to get predictions for good surfing conditions. Googling for…

Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar have secured $164.5m (£83.3m) from the World Bank to help roll-out high-speed internet networks. The World Bank said the money was being made available to boost business competitiveness in the region.

MTN Nigeria Communications Limited has launched another new campaign pay-off known as the ‘Go’ in a ceremony attended by the crème de la crème of the society including Mrs. Onari Duke, the wife of the immediate past governor of Cross…

As the National Communications Authority (NCA) is still studying their documents, officials of Nigerian Telecommunications giant, GLOBACOM, are confident they would soon be granted a license to operate in Ghana.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have agreed to collaborate on interconnecting all African capitals and major cities with ICT broadband infrastructure and strengthen connectivity to the rest of the world by 2012.

The NEPAD e-Africa Commission and 5-P Holdings, LLC signed, 24 October 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Pretoria, South Africa, to construct the submarine segment of the NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network, UHURUNET.