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Wed, October 15th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju

think incubator selects startups from Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Egypt

Kigali-based technology incubator think has announced the selection of 4 African startups for support. The startups are Beliaa (Egypt), Cribpark (Nigeria), PollAfrique (Ghana), and TorQue (Rwanda). → Read more
Mon, October 13th, 16:00 · Paul Adepoju

Orange bags 12 AfricaCom Awards nominations

Organisers of AfricaCom Awards 2014 have announced nominees for the awards event scheduled to hold on November 12 at The Waterfront Lookout, Cape Town, South Africa. → Read more
Mon, October 13th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Airtel joins UN global compact

Bharti Airtel, has officially joined the United Nations Global Compact a voluntary initiative that relies on public accountability, transparency and disclosure to complement regulations and to provide space for innovation and collective action. → Read more
Fri, October 10th, 16:00 · Paul Adepoju

MTN to integrate mobile money systems in Rwanda, Uganda

MTN has announced it will be integrating its mobile money systems in Rwanda and Uganda as part of cross-border mobile money initiative. The integration will become effective from next month. → Read more
Fri, October 10th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju

Investments in Nigeria’s telecoms sector hit $40bn

Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has revealed investments in the nation's telecoms sector has reached US$40 billion (about NGN6.4 trillion). This was announced by BPE's Director-General Benjamin Dikki. → Read more
Fri, October 10th, 09:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Orange Botswana partners Ericsson for enhanced efficiency and quality of service

Orange Botswana has entered into a multi-year managed services agreement with Ericsson that will have the latter manage network operations for Orange Botswana. → Read more
Thu, October 9th, 08:00 · Susan Mwenesi

MTN leads the pack as top social media brand as NTV ranks as best media brand

South African –based telecommunications company MTN is social media’s most popular brand a report by Digital Impact Awards Africa (DIAA) has revealed. → Read more
Tue, October 7th, 12:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Equity Bank issues mobile banking smart SIM for mobile banking and communications services

Equity Bank will be issuing ultra-thin mobile banking smart SIM with patented technology from Taisys Technologies to provide mobile banking and mobile communication services to their customers in Kenya. → Read more
Mon, October 6th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Airtel Kenya appoints new executives

Bharti Airtel, has today announced the appointment of Topyster Muga and Venkateshwaran (Venkat) Ramakrishnan as the new head of Airtel Money and finance director respectively for its operation in Kenya. → Read more
Mon, October 6th, 12:08 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s largest church launches multiple network recharge cards

Nigeria's largest church the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has partnered with OneCard to launch multiple service recharge cards to offer worshipers access to top-up solution at any of the church's over 332,000 parishes nationwide. → Read more
Fri, October 3rd, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju

MTN launches locally relevant apps challenge in Ghana

Telecoms company MTN has launched a challenge for mobile app developers in Ghana. The competition in its second edition is aimed at promoting development of locally relevant mobile applications for the local market. → Read more
Fri, October 3rd, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju

Econet launches EcoSchool for universities in Zimbabwe

Econet Wireless has launched EcoSchool a digital educational platform aimed at providing the university community in Zimbabwe with improved and free access to educational materials. → Read more
Wed, October 1st, 09:00 · Paul Adepoju

Google, Globacom celebrate Nigeria’s independence day

Major players in Nigeria's technology sector including Google and Globacom are joining citizens in celebrating the nation's fifty-fourth Independence Day. Google released a Doodle that showcased the major forms of road transportation in Nigeria. → Read more
Tue, September 30th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju

Uche Ofodile announced new GM for Tigo in DRC

Tigo Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced the appointment of Uche Ofodile as its new General Manager starting from Wednesday, 1st October. → Read more
Tue, September 30th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria can achieve 30% broadband penetration rate by 2018 – Johnson

Omobola Johnson, Nigeria's communication minister has expressed confidence in the actualisation of the National Broadband Plan to raise broadband penetration in Nigeria from 6% to 30% by 2018. → Read more
Fri, September 26th, 16:00 · Paul Adepoju

Airtel, Trace launch mobile music competition in 13 African countries

Telecommunications service provider Bharti Airtel has announced a partnership with brand and multimedia group TRACE and international music superstar Akon to launch what it described as Africa's biggest mobile music challenge. → Read more
Wed, September 24th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Vodacom tests superfast 4G in SA

Vodacom has launched its next development in 4G technology, capable of downloading an entire 1Gb movie in less than a minute,this being the first time that this has been achieved on a live mobile network in South Africa using a smartphone. → Read more
Mon, September 22nd, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju

MTN Nigeria loses 1m subscribers in Q2

Telecoms company MTN Nigeria lost about one million subscribers in the second quarter of the year according to the latest figures released by the regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). In the same period, Globacom's subscriber base rose from 23 million in Q1 to 27 million subscribers in Q2 making it Nigeria's second largest telecoms operator after MTN. → Read more
Thu, September 18th, 15:00 · Paul Adepoju

Cloud is the ultimate place to do business – Vodacom

Pan-African corporate connectivity and telecommunications provider Vodacom has described cloud as the ultimate place to do business. Nkosi Kumalo, Vodacom’s Executive Head of Cloud and Hosting Services said this while speaking on "Utilizing Cloud as a key business tool" at the Vodacom Business Nigeria-sponsored CIO forum in Lagos. → Read more
Wed, September 17th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju

World Telecom Labs celebrates 1bn minutes for Nigeria’s interconnect exchange carriers

World Telecom Labs (WTL) has announced that more than 1 billion minutes have passed through its second generation VoIP switches deployed by five of Nigeria’s interconnect exchange carriers. → Read more