Telecommunications
Ethiopia: Govt Launches Green Economic Funding Facilit
The Climate Resilient Green Economy Facility (CRGEF) was launched on September 10, 2012, with the intent of supporting the government's vision of attaining a...
Ethiopia: No hope for Ethio Telecom employees?
French telecommunications giant, France Telecom, and the Ethiopian government are involved in a dispute following a decision to cut 8,000 jobs at Ethio Telecom...
Television, a real health hazard!
British doctors have recently ruled on the effects of watching television. Television addiction, which is separated from factors like smoking and high blood pressure,...
As Africa telecoms grow Ethiopia, Somalia and Zimbabwe present great potential
A telecoms committee has been recently formed to urge African Countries to focus their attention to broadband deployment and telecom services to rural communities....
SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally
A growing number of sub-Saharan African countries – South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and more recently, Ghana – now require that...
Uganda eyes International Telecommunications Union seat
The 18th Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has opened in Mexico where Uganda has intensified its campaign to get a seat...
MobiCash: A new money transfer service for Moroccans
"MobiCash" a new feature in international money transfer for Moroccans living abroad has been put in place by Maroc Telecom since the beginning of...
Middle East and North Africa open for telecom business
France Telecom have recently announced its plans to acquire five telecom deals in North Africa and the Middle East and are hoping to complete...
East Africa getting ready for internet revolution
The recent deployment of the SEACOM broadband cable off the coast of east Africa has sparked “the dawn of a new era” in Internet...
Africa-Europe underwater cable: West Africa to get high speed internet
France Telecom and a consortium of 20 members of the telecommunications industry, Saturday, signed an agreement to build an underwater cable between Europe and...
TV Brazil International bridges gap with Africa
Brazil Monday launched its international television network in the Mozambican capital of Maputo. TV Brazil International will be broadcast in Portuguese and beamed to...
Ethiopia: France Telecom wins bid to reform Ethiopia Telecom
France Telecom, the French state owned telecommunication provider, has been selected to manage Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC), Ethiopia’s state-owned telecoms provider, after beating South...
New IBM software competes with Microsoft in Africa
The African computer market is showing, despite the global economic crisis, strong development prospects. It is in this light that IBM has planned to...
Burkina Faso: Investors snatch up shares despite meltdown
The surprise success of the first-ever sale of corporate stocks to the public in Burkina Faso has forced a rethink about African attitudes to...
Kenya: “Solar ya Simu”” a solar powered mobile phone to cope with Africa’s electricity challenges
A new solar mobile phone locally known as "Solar ya Simu” has been introduced to the Kenyan market since August. Safaricom is behind this...
Microsoft conniving with Poland to promote racism?
A Blackman mysteriously turns into a Whiteman. What was supposed to be a pictorial prowess ended up as a clumsy patchwork by Microsoft on...
Microsoft OneApp to provide internet services to low-end mobile phones in Africa
OneApp, a new Microsoft platform, provides access to most Internet services - Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, online payment - without necessarily changing an older...
East African countries get high speed and cheap Internet
High speed and cheap internet access has become a reality in East Africa. Seacom, a Mauritian telecommunications company, last week completed the installation of...
Africa: Google and Grameen Foundation launch AppLab
The Grameen Foundation (a micro-credit bank) and Google have launched AppLab, a range of applications available via SMS (Short Message Service), in Uganda. This...
Egyptian telecoms giant, Orascom takes fight with Orange to France
Egyptian telecoms operator, Orascom, is on the lookout for opportunities that might enable him gain a foothold in France: acquisitions, partnerships, mergers or an...
Approaching Internet explosion to redefine Africa’s place
A new wave of revolution is starting to reshape Africa. Oddly, it is not a political revolution but an Internet revolution set to transform...
Nigeria among top ten countries on the global mobile networks
Nigeria, with a monthly growth figure of 1.1 million in new mobile phone subscription, is now the eighth fastest growing telecommunications environment in the...
Rwanda and Korea sign $38 million internet deal
In a bid to enable high-speed internet network with fiber-optic technology, Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) has signed a $38million contract with Korea Telecom...
Hacking alert in Nigeria
The Nigerian Senate is presently considering a Bill aimed at restraining the activities of internet criminals as the government has come to realise the...
Laptops for all in Uganda
Alintuma Nsambu, the State Minister for Information and Communications Technologies, has affirmed that the newly introduced laptop ownership programme will after five years, see...
Ericsson’s highest sales in Africa to foster cheaper services
Swedish-based telecommunications giant, Ericsson, said it had benefitted immensely from Africa's vibrant mobile phone industry, with sales soaring up to € 400 million this...
Kenya : Mobile phones to serve as credit cards
Kenya's Central Bank Governor Njuguna Ndung'u has welcomed the launch of the country's first formal mobile banking services unveiled Thursday to target millions of...
Opposition takes gov’t to court for telecom deal
A group of Ghanaians is taking legal action against the government to halt the intended sale of state-owned Ghana Telecom to telecoms giant Vodafone...
Telecommunications gaint moves from Holland to Kenya
Zain International, one of Africa's leading mobile phone service providers, has moved its Africa regional headquarters to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.
Zain, formerly Celtel, is...
Sim-card registration process contested
Mobile phone uses are skeptical over the registration of all prepaid mobile phone sim-cards saying its a ploy by State Security agents to keep...