Telecommunications
Orange launches Orange Horizons to seek out new business opportunities outside its operator footprint
PARIS, France, January 16, 2013/ -- Orange ) has launched a new subsidiary called Orange Horizons that aims to seek out new business opportunities...
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...
Apple sues Amazon over Appstore name
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Amazon accusing the Web retail giant of copyright infringement over the name "app store."
The complaint, filed Friday, is...
Amazon Appstore opens Tuesday
Amazon.com is entering the mobile app business with an Android app store that will open Tuesday.
The Amazon Appstore, accessible at Amazon.com/appstore and through a...
AT&T buys T-Mobile rival for $39 billion
AT&T Inc. said it was buying T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG for $39 billion in cash and stock, a move that would create...
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,...
Kenya mobile phone market registers fastest rise
Kenya’s mobile-phone users rose at the fastest pace in at least four quarters in the three months through September as tariffs in the East...
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...
Societe Generale and Obopay Bring Mobile Money to Africa
Societe Generale, one of the leading financial services groups in the world, and Obopay, a leading mobile banking and payment provider, today announced they...
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...
Gateway Communications keeps East and Southern Africa connected during SEACOM outage
London April 28 Gateway Communications, the leading supplier of African telecommunications services, today announced that it is the only carrier on SEACOM currently operational...
Conference on the Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network Kicks-off at PAP
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) today held a conference on the African Parliamentary Knowledge Network (APKN) discussing the significance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...
Signiant and LaserNet Power the News for e.tv
Signiant®, Inc., the pioneering software developer of content supply chain management solutions, announced today that LaserNet, a leading South African provider of multimedia services,...
$18bn African Investment – but can the Middle East take the call?
Since 2001, Investment into the African telecommunications sector has hit $18bn, however Africa has missed many opportunities to deploy cable infrastructure to the same...
Radio Communications System to Help Zimbabwean Rural Health Centres Combat Cholera
IOM has handed over radio communications equipment to Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Welfare in an effort to improve disease outbreak reporting and...
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...