WEST AFRICAVodafone completes purchase of Ghana Telecom stake
London: Mobile phone giant Vodafone annonuced today, it had completed the purchase of a 70% stake in state-run Ghana Telecommunications. 18 Aug 2008 11:30
WEST AFRICAAre you an email addict?
According to AOL Mail's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they're hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day. One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day and some even, for crying out loud, check their emails while in church. Granted, the survey is an American one, but are African's so different? Are you an email addict? 5 Aug 2008 09:41
WEST AFRICAGlobacom targets two million subscribers in one year
Ghana's 6th mobile phone license holder, Globacom, has projected that its outfit will hit a two million subscriber mark in the first year of operation. 24 Jul 2008 11:21
WEST AFRICAOrange to peddle iPhone in Africa
[Rachelle Crum] Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has signed a new deal with Apple to offer the iPhone to its customers in several parts of Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. The company already has an exclusive deal with Apple to sell the phone in France. 19 May 2008 06:55
WEST AFRICAGlo-ing new expansion contract
Alcatel-Lucent announced yesterday, 15 May, that it has signed a contract with Globacom (Glo), Nigeria's second largest national operator to extend the network capacity and performance of Globacom's mobile and fixed networks. 16 May 2008 12:48
WEST AFRICASafaricom taps Equity Bank for staff share loans
[Walter Wafula] Safaricom, one of Kenya's leading mobile telephone service providers, has made a deal with Equity Bank to allow its staff to access loans for the acquisition of its IPO shares through the bank at a subsidised interest rate of 10%. 11 Apr 2008 06:17
WEST AFRICAGlobacom launches another fibre backbone
[Remmy Nweke] Second National Carrier, Globacom, has launched its Optic Fibre Cable backbone to enhance transmission of both voice and data on the network. Speaking during the launch at Owerri, capital of Imo State in Eastern Nigeria, Martins Olowonihi, acting Chief Operating noted that the backbone would offer Nigerians, mostly those in the South Eastern part of the country and Owerri precisely, the convergence of voice, data and multimedia solutions. 2 Apr 2008 12:27
WEST AFRICACourt orders MTN, Celtel to compensate subscribers
[Remmy Nweke] A Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, has insisted that the two-some Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) operators, MTN and Celtel, must compensate their subscribers over poor quality of service experienced as at 31 January 2008. 31 Mar 2008 12:50
WEST AFRICANigeria reaps from telecom licensing
Nigeria has attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the tune of US$11.5 billion (about N1,357,000,000,000 trillion) in the telecommunications industry, just as the Federal Government (FG) has earned over US$2.2 billion (about N259,600,000,000 billion) from spectrum licensing in the last five years. 25 Mar 2008 12:06
WEST AFRICAVisafone set to roll out in Nigeria
[Remmy Nweke] Visafone, one of the emerging telecom operators in Nigeria, has announced plans to commence services in 12 states of the federation cutting across 40 cities. 17 Mar 2008 12:02
WEST AFRICABursting into Ghana
Internet service giant iBurst Africa is expanding its operations in Ghana as part of its expansion in Africa. 14 Mar 2008 12:31
WEST AFRICAWalkman is GSMA Best Handset
Sony Ericsson's W910i Walkman phone strutted off with the prize for Best Handset the GSM Association's 13th Global Mobile Awards 2008. The ceremony was held on 12 February in Barcelona, Spain, as part of the Mobile World Congress. 20 Feb 2008 10:43
WEST AFRICA4,000 more base stations for Nigeria
Celtel Nigeria has outlined strategies to improve the quality of service (QoS) on its network by deploying 1,000 more base stations before December 2008. 13 Feb 2008 11:31
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