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MTN Nigeria confirms network investment of USD 1 bln
MTN announced plans to spend over USD 1 billion in 2012 to improve its network in Nigeria, following a demand from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for improved service delivery, Bloomberg [...]
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Egypt forms five committees to address telecom issues
Egypt: Egypt’s ministry of ICT has formed five committees to tackle problems telecom operators are having, reports the Egypt State Information Service. The groups will consist of representatives [...]
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Nigerian banks line up for mobile money licenses
Nigeria: Nigeria continues its push toward becoming a cashless, mobile economy. The country’s effort to build a mobile payment services framework is meant to help the country’s large unbanked [...]
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Nigerian watchdog picks Ascom equipment for quality checks
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has selected technology from Swiss company Ascom to test service quality using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), ThisDay reported. Seven consultants have been [...]
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Egypt mobile subscriptions pass 80 million
The Egyptian government said the country’s mob ile phone subscriptions have increased by 25.76 percent to 80.39 million in the year to September, Reuters reported. In September 2010, Egypt’s [...]
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Orascom Telecom to invest US$70 million Telecel
Egypt: Egypt-based Orascom Telecom reiterated its commitment to its majority-owned mobile subsidiary Telecel Zimbabwe, after announcing it will invest US$70mn to enhance the GSM operator’s national [...]
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AfricaCom Awards 2011 / Orange wins “Best New Service” award at AfricaCom 2011
Orange won the “Best New Service” award at the AfricaCom Awards 2011. The awards gala dinner took place on Wednesday, 9 November in Cape Town, South Africa. The awards are a unique annual celebration [...]
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Orascom Telecom seeks partners for Orange Switzerland bid
Egypt: According to reports, Naguib Sawiris, founder of Orascom Telecom is looking for partners in order to bid for Orange Switzerland valued at around $2.8 billion. Other people who have shown their [...]
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Reasons Nigeria needs more broadband carriers
Nigeria: Going by the trend that the world is fast shrinking into an hamlet and the percentage of people that still hooked to the internet is still low, Nigeria is on the threshold of joining other advance [...]
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Int’l Carrier Partners Meet of NT begins
The two-day International Carrier Partners´ Meet (ICPM) being organized by Nepal Telecom (NT) kicked off today with participants from 25 different carrier partners of 16 countries attending the meet. [...]
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Egypt’s Orascom Telecom appoints new financial head
Egypt: Orascom Telecom has appointed Khalid Ellaicy as the firm’s new chief financial officer, to start 17 October.
Ellaicy replaces Aldo Mareuse who joined Orascom as financial head in 2002.
Ellaicy [...]
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Arab bloggers gather in Tunis
Tunis: Renowned members of the Arab blogosphere just wrapped up a convention that examined the role of the internet in the Arab revolutions and the region’s democratic transition.
Some 200 cyber-activists, [...]
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Egypt launches new e-signature competence center at GITEX
Egypt today announces the launch of the new Egyptian e-Signature Competence Center.
The center, the first of its kind across the Middle East and North African region, will provide significant support [...]
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NSN inks Africa 2G, 3G network deal with Airtel
Finnish telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has signed an agreement with Bharti Airtel to expand the operator’s 2G infrastructure and deploy 3G networks in seven African [...]
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Airtel ropes in additional distribution channels to spread money transfer
In a bid to lure more subscribers for its money transfer product, Airtel Kenya has added more distribution channels to its list while reducing transaction fees at the same time.
The outlets of this money [...]
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Egypt mobile phone subscriptions rise 27% in April
Egypt: According to official figures, the number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt rose 27% year-on-year to 74.58 million in April, Reuters has reported. In April 2010, Egypt’s three mobile [...]
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Vodafone Egypt gets approval for mobile-phone money transfer
Hatem Dowidar, CEO of Vodafone Egypt has announced the company has received the approval by the government to provide mobile-phone money transfer once security in the country improves, Bloomberg has [...]
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Nigeria puts sale of NITEL to sleep
The latest attempt to privatise Nigeria Telecommunications (NITEL) has been terminated after the ailing state-run telco’s reserve bidder, Omen International, failed to meet the deadline to pay a bid [...]
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