News from Sub-Saharan Africa

Optical & Fixed Networks

Angola opts for submarine cable to boost communications

Angola's Savings and Credits Bank (BPC) is set to provide US$70 million for a new fibre-optic cable network which will connect Angola's coastal...

Consumer Ecosystems

Voxiva, GSM ally against HIV/AIDS and Avian flu

Voxiva is developing a mobile phone application that will make it much easier for health authorities and governments to track and manage the spread...

Trends & Forecasts

Telecom trio use biofuels to boost mobile coverage

Three influential organisations have come together in a pioneering experiment aimed at expanding the coverage available to mobile customers...

Trends & Forecasts

Nigeria's students welcome Intel's e-classroom

A project to make ICT available at all times for pupils in schools in the emerging markets has received a major...

Consumer Ecosystems

Global effort by Thales, RFS brings nationwide TV to Tanzania

Radio Frequency Systems, has just completed a television broadcast project in Tanzania that will bring free-to-air television to more than 90% of...

Blogs & Opinion

Infrastructure is not enough!

Feedback is increasing sharply at Developing Telecoms- thank you to all...

Service Management

Reltelwireless selects Cerillion For Nigerian mediation solution

Benefiting fromNigeria's rapidly growing market, Reliance Telecommunications is expanding its...

Trends & Forecasts

Anti-liberalisers speak out in Uganda - and are silenced

Uganda's government is looking towards a more competitive telecoms environment. And yet the country's two telecoms providers seek to differ. Michael...

Trends & Forecasts

Slow start for African fibre traffic despite EASSy

A recent report on African satellite markets from the London based newsletter Balancing Act strikes a cautious chord on the building of the East...

Optical & Fixed Networks

Alcatel wins EASSy contract

Following on almost immediately from our report about the financing of the East African Submarine Cable project (EASSy),...

Trends & Forecasts

Kenya grants new gateway licences while Sierra Leone threatens cuts

The Kenyan Government has announced its decision to grant international gateway licences to the country's two leading mobile operators...

Optical & Fixed Networks

EASSy cable wins key global finance

Reflecting the more confident atmosphere surrounding negotiations over the future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), two key...

Trends & Forecasts

Mobile development in Africa

In the traditionally strident and forceful tones of the GSM Association, Gabriel Solomon, the Association's Director, Government and Regulatory...

Trends & Forecasts

Open access for EASSy agreed by all - what about Merali?

Obstacles which appeared to threaten the very future of the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) have been overcome at a meeting between...

Humanitarian Comms

Yes, there is hope for Africa's Net

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Operators

Third-time-lucky for MTN mobiles in Ghana

It took US$5.526 million and a major merger, but MTN's acquisition of Scancom Ghana

Trends & Forecasts

DRC and Sudan drive Africa cell growth

Following identification as a potentially strong Internet market,...

Trends & Forecasts

Mid-East spotlight

Arab telecom operators served 85 million cellular subscribers and 30 million fixed telephony lines in 2005. The Middle East and North Africa is a...

Trends & Forecasts

ECOWAS confirms common telecom/IT market - starting next year

Next year the 13 countries making up the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) will take one step further towards...

Consumer Ecosystems

Kasapa expands in Ghana

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Trends & Forecasts

Liberia: tailoring the economy for growth

A few weeks ago, leading Liberian commentator Francis Nyepon described the agonising experiences of the Liberian Telecommunications Company in...

Trends & Forecasts

Internet - a rival to Africa's mobile phone success?

Having recently reviewed the success of mobile phones in sub-Saharan Africa, Michael Schwartz looks at the benefits to Africa of the Internet...

Satellite Networks

Marpless African network gains 55 PolarSat VSATs

A private African network is to benefit from the supply of 55 VSATs manufactured by PolarSat...

Trends & Forecasts

Mobile technology + cellphone customer = African success

Good news and Africa seldom go together. Let's be blunt about it. It may be a case of "Bad news alone sells newspapers" but on the whole there is...

Trends & Forecasts

Mobiles make up 85% of African subscribers

Research and Markets, the Dublin-based analyst group, has published the fifth edition of its Africa Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market...

Trends & Forecasts

Liberia's telecoms frustration - a way forward?

Developing Telecomsrecently publishedFrancis Nyepon's account...

Trends & Forecasts

New mobile alliance for ten African states

UNI Telecom Global Union, in conjunction with UNI-Africa and the AFL-CIO Solidarity centre, has launched a UNI Mobile...

Trends & Forecasts

Don't fall behind in technology, Nigeria warns its operators

Dr Bashir Gwandu has asked...

Trends & Forecasts

ICT is Ethiopia's number one priority

Developing Telecomsreceives many emails of support and obtains much of...

Trends & Forecasts

Roundup - Ethiopian growth, Gabon/DRC use Leadcom

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Trends & Forecasts

Telecoms thriving in lawless Somalia

Joseph Winter of BBC News recently filed a report from Mogadishu, in which, in stark contrast to all the usual reports from Somalia, he was able to...

Consumer Ecosystems

Kenyan Financial Post addresses data protection

The Financial Post, one of...

Trends & Forecasts

How vital is Liberia Telecoms to Liberia?

Liberian policy analyst Francis Nyepon describes the recent fate of The Liberia Telecommunications...

Trends & Forecasts

Nigeria largest African market in four years

Trends & Forecasts

Pan-African regulator could reduce Africa's ICT costs

A Pan-African ICT regulatory agency, dealing specifically with ICT issues with a continent-wide bearing, could help reduce the costs of...

Revenue & Billing

First National on alert in Namibia with Clickatell

First National Bank has selected Clickatell to extend its inContact alert service to...

Wireless Networks

MTC Namibia awards five-year access network deal to Motorola

Mobile Telecommunications Limited of...

Trends & Forecasts

Sub-Sahara "unpredictable & short-sighted" - GSMA

Almost 30% more people (25 million) in Sub-Saharan Africa would have mobile phones if it was not for the unpredictable and short-term approach to...

Trends & Forecasts

MTC buys 61% of Mobitel in Sudan

In a deal valued at US$1.332 billion, MTC has acquired from Sudatel 61% of Sudanese mobile...

Wireless Networks

First HSDPA network available in the Middle East and Africa region

Wataniya Telecom today...

Trends & Forecasts

Prepare for summer - APC's checklist against power-outs

Alan Morgan, District Manager, East Africa at American Power Conversion, submits his list of preventative measures designed to ensure operations do...

Trends & Forecasts

EASSy does it - will East Africa learn from West Africa?

Work on the East African Submarine System (EASSy) is likely to start early next year. The World Bank is willing to offer...

Satellite Networks

Oil lubricates Cameroon telecoms

Cameroon will soon enjoy the benefits of a telecoms spinal cord carried in a backbone stretching right down the country...

Revenue & Billing

Intec continues Nigerian expansion

Medallion Communications, a newly launched interconnect clearing house for all telecommunications service providers in Nigeria, has commissioned...

Trends & Forecasts

West Africa: A common ICT Market?

Fifteen West African nations have today (7 October 2005) agreed to a common regulatory framework for their national ICT markets...

Devices & Platforms

More phones, lower prices for Nokia

Earlier this summer, Nokia sold its one billionth phone. The customer is based in Nigeria and Nokia is quick to acknowledge the significance of this...