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Tue, November 13th, 09:13 · Vincent Matinde

Commercial Bank of Africa honored for its payment solutions

Total System Services (TSYS), the largest processor of merchant acquirers and bank credit card issuers, has recognized the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) for its dedicated use of payment solutions. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 09:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigerian telcos banned from promotions, lotteries

Nigeria’s communications regulator Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has banned MTN Nigeria and six other telcos from engaging in any promotions or lotteries citing complains received from subscribers. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 08:37 · Kamau Mbote

AccessKenya to invest 120 million shillings to enhance corporate connectivity

AccessKenya, a leading Internet services provider (ISP) in Kenya, has said it will in 2013 inject KSh120 million ($1.17 million) into fiber-optic infrastructure expansion across the country, as it targets more corporate and high-end customers with fixed Internet connections. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 08:36 · Tefo Mohapi

Google SA partners with 8ta to launch free Internet initiative

Search engine giant Google has, in conjunction with South African telcos 8ta, today announced the Free Zone initiative expected to give people access to mobile Web search and feature-phone-friendly versions of Gmail and Google+ with zero data charges. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 08:02 · Vincent Matinde

Mobile subscriptions in Africa hit the 750 million mark

Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in terms of mobile subscriptions having hit the 750 million mark with 1 billion expected by 2015. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 07:38 · Paul Adepoju

Cancel licenses of errant telecom companies, experts

To tackle the perennial challenge of poor services by telecoms operators in Nigeria, outright revocation of the operating licences of such defaulting operators has been recommended. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 07:07 · Paul Adepoju

6700 laptops up for Ghana’s basic schools

More than 6,700 laptops have been handed over to Ghana's Volta Regional Coordinating Council for distribution to the region's 280 basic schools. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 06:40 · Paul Adepoju

Telecoms companies across Africa set new mobile revenues target

Africa's telecommunication companies have set an annual mobile data revenue target of $18.5 billion by 2016. The amount would be 22 percent of the Africa's total mobile service revenues against 12 percent in 2011, according to a recent industry outlook survey commissioned by Informa Telecoms and Media. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 07:28 · Kamau Mbote

Coca-Cola silent despite hacking ahead of acquisition

A group of Chinese hackers over three years ago reportedly penetrated Coca Cola’s computer systems ahead of its $2.4 billion acquisition of Chinese beverage company China Huiyan Juice Co., even as the takeover deal collapsed three days later. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 12:22 · Kamau Mbote

Publishers across the globe in arms against Google News

More And more publishers around the world are joining hands to fight search engine and apps giant Google, accusing it of “eating into their revenues”. Already, over 150 newspapers in Brazil have pulled out of Google while punishing legislation is underway in France and Germany. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 07:15 · Tom Jackson

Malawi telecoms regulator appeals ban on “spy machine”

State-run Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has gone to the Supreme Court to challenge a ruling preventing it from implementing the expensive Consolidated ICT Regulatory Management Systems (CIRMS) – known as the “spy machine” – as it infringes on privacy rights. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 13:35 · Gabriella Mulligan

Signalling storms could cost SA operators thousands an hour

LTE network operators could stand to lose up to US$60,000 an hour in revenue because they are more prone to signalling storms, according to 4G and Diameter experts F5 Traffix Systems. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 13:31 · Paul Adepoju

Airtel Nigeria Announce Cost Slash, New Packages

Leading mobile telecommunications company Airtel Nigeria has slashed the cost of calls made across its network to 18 kobo per second, part of its bouquet of plans it recently revealed in Lagos. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 09:29 · Vincent Matinde

Still time to enter Amazon Web Service Global Start-Up Challenge

African developers are invited to enter this year’s the Amazon developer challenge, where they stand a chance of being Africa’s first finalist in the competition and winning US$100,000 worth of prizes. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 09:20 · Robert K'Odingo

Zimbabwean firm hires top Kenyan talent to steer its mobile money service

Zimbabwe’s mobile service provider Econet Wireless has hired Japhet Aritho, a former top executive at Kenya’s mobile services leader Safaricom, as its new chief operating officer (COO) to steer its recently launched mobile money service Ecocash. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 08:45 · Vincent Matinde

MTN lines up six speakers for AfricaCom 2012 conference

MTN has said it will have a bigger presence in the upcoming AfricaCom conference, lining up six speakers from the company and showcasing its MTN Play portal. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 08:16 · Robert K'Odingo

ICT progressive in Zimbabwe even with lack of proper policies

A listing by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has ranked Zimbabwe as the second most dynamic ICT nation in the world, just behind Ghana, though the country’s government have yet to put policies in place to fully support it. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 07:11 · Paul Adepoju

Liberia’s Cellcom introduces nation’s first flat tariff plan

Mobile network operator Cellcom Telecommunication has introduced a flat rate for costs made across all networks in the Liberia, the first since the advent of the global system for mobile telecommunications (GSM) in the country. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 06:51 · Tefo Mohapi

Migration contributes to Malaria infection, mobile data proves

A recent mobile-based survey pioneered by Harvard School of Public Health has revealed that malaria is transmitted from hot spots areas to other regions through migration. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 06:42 · Gythan Munga

Returning Home: Naguib Sawiris refocuses on telecoms

Despite having apparently walked away from the Egyptian telecoms sector to pursue a career in politics, Naguib Sawiris, Egypt’s second richest man and member of the Orascom telecoms dynasty, seems to be finding that decision difficult to stick to as he continues to look for new telecoms opportunities. → Read more