Sudan’s Internet services has been restored at one of its three major international ISPs, the government reported after it had seen the Internet cut off across the country as a result of riots over the ending of fuel subsidies. The result saw much turmoil...
In a surprise announcement, India’s Bharti Aitel is required to sell 15 percent of its stake in the local arm, Airtel Kenya, in order to avoid legal proceedings from the country’s regulator. The share sale, mandatory according to the...
Mobile Telecommunications provider, Airtel Africa plans to set up its corporate head office in Nairobi, Kenya. Manoj Kohli, Bharti Airtel CEO and joint MD briefed President Mwai Kibaki on the company’s plans to relocate him to Nairobi in order to run their...
Bharti Airtel, a global telecommunications provider, has finalised the purchase of Kuwaiti telecom operator Zain’s African assets, worth about $9 billion. The deal makes Bharti Airtel the 5th largest telecom company in the world. The final payment to Zain...
March 24, 2011 •
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The South Sudan government has temporarily suspended the work of telecommunications companies in the country as the new political body works on regulations to govern their operations in the area, which will become an independent country next July. According...
March 22, 2011 •
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United Arab Emirates telecommunications giant Etisalat has dropped its $12 billion bid to take a large portion of Kuwait’s Zain telecom company. The removal of their attempt to take over the Gulf company means it is losing out on the Moroccan market, which...
February 24, 2011 •
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Mobily and Zain are offering special discounts on their different services to mark the return of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah from Morocco after a three-month long medical trip. Mobily said Tuesday that it would allow clients to send SMS...
AIRTEL Kenya has lowered its call rate in Kenya to $ 0.0125 as it seeks to forge ahead in the telecommunications market and grow its subscriber numbers in the country. The move comes barely six months after its call rates were lowered by more than 50 percent...
IBM and Bharti airtel have announced the conclusion of negotiations for technology services spanning 16 African countries, extending a relationship with begain in 2004 when IBM was selected by airtel to run IT and applications for its entire network in India....
THE newly rebranded Airtel Nigeria has slashed call rates with its new 2Good package. With Airtel’s 2Good package, customers will be able to make calls at 20 kobo per second after the first minute. For a minute, users pay 60 kobo per second. This...
NIGERIAN President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed the newly un-veiled Airtel brand by global telecommunications giant, Bharti Airtel, expressing hope that the company will reignite competition in the market. He also congratulated the Telecom firm for the...
BHARTI Airtel’s Group Chairman, Sunil Mittal, the new owners of Zain Nigeria has disclosed that new applications; lower tariffs and rural connections would define the entrance of the company into the Nigerian market and Africa in general. Bharti Airtel,...
“I AM confident that over the coming years Airtel will win the hearts of customers in Kenya and emerge as one of the most admired brands of the continent,”Rene Meza Airtel Kenya Managing Director. Just months after acquiring Zain in Africa, Bharti...
A major transformation in Kenya’s second largest telecom company, Zain Kenya, will be witnessed next week when the company officially changes its name to “Airtel”. The name change will be the fourth since the company started operating in Kenya....
Bharti Airtel has today announced the appointment of two executives to steer its network and internal assurance functions across 16 countries in Africa. Ms. Tay Kim Lee joins the group as the Director of Internal Assurance whilst Mr. Eben Albertyn will take...
October 29, 2010 •
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MOBILE phone service provider, Zain Kenya, and the government have begun talks with the aim of determining whether there should be a fresh review of tariffs which have spawned a price war. Local media reports quoted Zain Kenya managing director, Rene Meza, as...
