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Telecom Egypt first-quarter net rises on wholesale business
Posted by admin on May 13, 2012 · Comments Off
Egypt: Telecom Egypt, the country’s monopoly fixed-line phone company, said its first-quarter profit advanced 1.7 percent on growth of its wholesale business.
Net income for the period that ended March [...]
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UT’s global science Internet extends link to Egypt
Posted by admin on May 8, 2012 · Comments Off
Egypt: Egypt is now linked into a high-speed internet housed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, that allows scientists, students and educators worldwide to collaborate to solve some of the world’s [...]
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Airtel Nigeria to flex its tech muscle at ICT congress
Posted by admin on May 2, 2012 · Comments Off
Nigeria: Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria has finalized arrangements to showcase the latest data and Internet offerings on its newly upgraded 3.75G network at this year’s [...]
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Westcon signs Blue Coat distributor for MENA
Posted by admin on May 1, 2012 · Comments Off
Egypt: Westcon Middle East , a leading value-add distributor of convergence, security, networking and mobility products and services, today announced that it has been signed as a distributor for Blue [...]
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Comptel sets up new Egypt office
Posted by admin on April 29, 2012 · Comments Off
Egypt: Comptel Corporation, a key provider of telecom business and operations software and services, has opened a new office in Egypt as part of its Middle East and Africa (MEA) expansion plans.
The [...]
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Nigeria GSM operators add 1 mln lines in February
Posted by admin on April 19, 2012 · Comments Off
Nigeria ended February with a total 131.82 million phone subscribers in the country, up from 128.01 million in January, according to figures from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Almost [...]
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MTN, Intel team up to supply education bundle for children
Posted by admin on April 10, 2012 · Comments Off
MTN Nigeria has partnered with Intel to roll out MTN Education Bundle, providing a laptop loaded with free internet access for three months and with exclusive educational content designed for children [...]
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International telcos line up to enter Libya; post-election time-frame mooted
Posted by admin on April 9, 2012 · Comments Off
Libya: According to a special report by Reuters Africa, a number of international telecoms giants are keen to enter Libya’s underdeveloped communications sector, but will only discover how they can [...]
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Mobiserve: network tower sharing fuels innovation in MEA telecom industry
Posted by admin on April 8, 2012 · Comments Off
Egypt: Mobiserve Holding, the leading solutions provider for telecommunication infrastructure and engineering services in the Middle East and Africa predicts continued growth in Egypt’s telecom [...]
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Nigeria: Stakeholders seek local content for broadband at eworld forum
Posted by admin on March 27, 2012 · Comments Off
The desire for faster deployment of broadband services to all the nooks and crannies of the country for quality services delivery received a big boost last week at the third annual eWorld forum held [...]
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X-raying challenges stunting telecoms growth in Nigeria
Posted by admin on March 20, 2012 · Comments Off
Nigeria: Ten years down the line that the global system for mobile communication,GSM came to the country,rather than customers to enjoy a robust better quality of service both in voice and data,the reverse [...]
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Telecoms revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase from USD40 billion in 2010 to USD69 billion in 2016, Analysys Mason report
Posted by admin on February 16, 2012 · Comments Off
Retail telecoms revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10% during 2010–2016, according to a new report from telecoms research and consulting company Analysys [...]
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France Telecom Egypt venture buyout to cost $2 billion
Posted by admin on February 15, 2012 · Comments Off
Egypt: France Telecom SA may spend about $2 billion to buy most of billionaire Naguib Sawiris’s stake in their Egyptian wireless venture and delist the operator.
France’s largest telecommunications [...]
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Nujira launches 4G handset chip to cut power by 50 percent
Posted by admin on February 8, 2012 · Comments Off
Nujira has announced its first IC for 4G mobile handsets based on its envelope tracking (ET) power supply modulation technology.
The Cambridge-based firm claims its NCT-L1100 chip can cut wasted energy [...]
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Nigeria to Licence 2.3GHz, 2.6GHz Spectra
Posted by admin on February 8, 2012 · Comments Off
Nigeria: The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it would auction digital licence in the 2.3GigaHertz (GHz) and 2.6GHz spectra to increase broadband access and make internet pervasive across [...]
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Nigeria unveils draft national ICT policy
Nigeria: Nigeria’s Minister of Communications Technology has released a draft of the national ICT policy and called on stakeholders and members of the public to comment. The draft policy is posted [...]
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Algeria to buy 51% stake in Djezzy mobile phone outfit
Algeria: Algeria is to buy a 51-percent stake in mobile phone operator Djezzy, a government spokesman said Sunday, after talks with the main shareholder in the group’s Egyptian parent company.
Talks [...]
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MTN, US firm in Uganda tower venture
Pan-African mobile operator MTN Group and American Tower Corporation (ATC) are to establish a new joint venture tower company in Uganda that will acquire MTN base station towers in that country for approximately [...]
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