The mobile market in the Middle East and Africa seemed to slow down in the second quarter of 2007. Indeed, we have to go back four years, to the second quarter of 2003, to find its equal.

Technology from UK-based SpinVox has enabled South African cellular carrier Vodacom to launch what it claims is Africa’s first voicemail-to-text service.

Sudan Telecommunications Co, or Sudatel, plans to buy more African mobile licences and expand its business in troubled southern Sudan, a senior company executive said.

NIGERIA’s mobile market, confirmed as the continent’s most robust and fastest growing, appears set to even break the banks as it is recording unprecedented investment inflow as the country enters its most active quarter with a flattering $2.130 billion capital…

Lap Green Networks, a Libyan company is to pay $100 million (about Frw54.5 billion) for the shares in Rwandatel. This is more than the $25 million the defunct Terracom, an American firm was to pay government for the same company.…

A French company, Alcatel-Lucent, has won a $82m tender to lay the East Africa Marine System (TEAM) cable to link the Kenyan coast with the United Arab Emirates.

Private investors who want to buy a stake in Kenya’s premier high-speed Internet link have six weeks to do so, project consultants have said.

Uganda has 14 million potential mobile phone users, but the current providers have a combined four million subscribers. This accounts for less than a fifth of the would-be market, a HITS Telecom survey shows. HITS Telecom officials described as false…

Bangalore, Oct. 10 Google is now on your mobile. Shortcodes and search have mingled to allow the 200 million mobile subscribers in India access to Google’s search engine database of Web sites on the Internet.

The International Telecommunication Union today announced that the Connect Africa Summit, October 29-30 in Kigali, Rwanda will have as its goal to help bring connectivity to Africa and promote “Connect Africa,” a new partnership that seeks to expand the information…

Company introduces the Nokia E51 device and reveals Mobile Unified Communications strategy to further improve employee productivity and cost-savings through business mobility.

The Kenya government will pre-qualify at least three operators to participate in the provision of connectivity to digital villages under the Digital Village Project, to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) enterprises, to the e-government project and to universities and colleges throughout…

Screen Africa is hosting a business breakfast briefing which will explore the opportunities for the industry of mobile content. Mobile content is billed as the most powerful entertainment and marketing tool of the future. Screen Africa believes it is important…

A conference beginning in Nairobi, Kenya today will explore plans to get 80 per cent of the continent’s population hooked up to the internet and telephone services. The internet is seen as a vital tool in the fight against poverty…