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Africa is the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, and is the biggest after Asia, an association of worldwide mobile phone operators has said.
Source: BBC
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Airtel Tanzania announced yesterday that it would offer its BlackBerry customers a service waiver following a global outage attributed to service provider Research in Motion (RIM).
Source: The Citizen
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by soren
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(Tanzania)
15 weeks 6 days ago
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The role technology played bringing these two hugely influential world figures is quite amazing, and the duo – and other watchers – are initially quite astonished that the link up worked as well as it did.
Source: TNW
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by Juliet
in Drum Communications
(South Africa)
16 weeks 5 days ago
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is proud to announce that the world's newest country, South Sudan, has joined ITU to become the Union's 193rd Member State, effective from 3 October 2011.
Source: allAfrica.com
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by adrian
in Drum Communications
(South Sudan)
17 weeks 2 days ago
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The research team at the iHub put together some stats on mobile numbers in Kenya.
Source: Memeburn
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by michelle
in Drum Communications
(Kenya)
18 weeks 2 days ago
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Djibouti Telecom has announced that it will partner with Ericsson to develop and introduce the country’s first 3G network. The new agreement will enable the company to push forward on plans to boost 2G networks in the country along with the new 3G capabilities.
Source: Bikyamasr
/7/
Ten MTN staff members were arrested in Fairland, north-western Johannesburg, on Thursday morning for fraud involving an amount of R200m, metro police said.
Source: News 24
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by philemon
in Drum Communications
(South Africa)
19 weeks 2 days ago
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Djibouti Telecom has announced that it will partner with Ericsson to develop and introduce the country’s first 3G network.
Source: it news
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by Juliet
in Drum Communications
(Djibouti)
19 weeks 3 days ago
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What new indicators should be gathered in efforts to defind key measuring tools for the information society?
How should data collection be used to feed ICT indicators?
Source: uneca
/10/
Niger's government has launched a telephone hotline through which citizens can call to report the corrupt practices which have undermined the economy of one of the world's poorest nations, officials said on Saturday.
Source: Reuters
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/11/
Today at a historic signing Somaliland’s telecommunication companies signed an agreement to allow interconnection for their consumers. The agreement will allow consumers to call out of network coverage without having to change SIM card or phone number. In the past each Somaliland’s telecommunication operators offered services to their own customers on their own network with no interconnection to different operator.
Source: SomalilandPress.com
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by zawadi
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(Somaliland)
28 weeks 3 days ago
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/12/
South Sudan has acquired its own telephone dialing code, the telecommunications minister said on Wednesday, after proclaiming formal independence from the north on Saturday
Source: News24
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by aster
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(South Sudan)
29 weeks 3 days ago
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Warid, a mobile telecommunications operator and Air Uganda, Uganda national airline carrier, are tackling the mobile price war affecting the country’s telecoms sector by planning to fly about 800 Ugandans to a destination of their choice within East Africa.
Source: IT News Africa
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by patrizia
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(Uganda)
29 weeks 5 days ago
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/14/
Egypt’s Internet sector has grown with some 170 000 new subscribers recorded for March 2011. As a result, Egypt now has just over 24 million users, a growth of 0.7% from the previous month and 38.5% from the same period in 2010.
Source: IT News Africa
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Mobile use in Africa is booming as prices just keep coming down. The number of mobile subscribers in Africa passed the half-billion mark in late 2010. For mobile operators, the challenge is to find the most cost-effective way to offer mobile broadband services while expanding networks into rural areas.
Source: The Africa Report
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/16/
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Magued Osman said last month that the Central Bank of Egypt has finally approved money transfers — the first step towards mobile banking — allowing users across Egypt to transfer or deposit a maximum of LE 3,000 by mobile phone.
Source: thedailynewsegypt.com
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/17/
"We will not stop until internet censorship is a word in the history books," Anonymous said Monday on the seized site, which was inaccessible for much of the day. Anonymous said on the site it wants those in Tunisia to continue "fighting for the truth ... We believe freedom of speech and freedom of knowledge is a basic human right."
Source: msnbc.com
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by karisa
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(Tunisia)
31 weeks 5 days ago
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/18/
Right at the bottom of the pyramid are phone users who can't afford the minimum cost for a SIM to share in someone else's phone. Movirtu has produced a cloud-based, login account which will enable anyone who has access to a GSM phone to share it but still retain their own number.
Source: allAfrica.com
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by ana
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(Madagascar)
31 weeks 6 days ago
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/19/
SEACOM, the giant underwater broadband cable, has signed a Master Services Agreement with Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique (TDM), the leading telecommunications service provider in Mozambique.
Source: IT News Africa
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by Tere
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(Mozambique)
32 weeks 1 day ago
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/20/
Spice Mobile, an Indian phone manufacturer has opened a new telecom business in Nigeria. This is part of the company’s efforts to expand their business in Africa and to develop the continent’s Information and communications Technology (ICT) industry.
Source: IT News Africa
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