Mobile umbrella GSMA opens Nairobi office
NAIROBI, KENYA - The Global System for Mobile (GSM) Association, the umbrella organization for the world’s mobile operators, opened its Af...
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MTN ranked as highest African brand
South African mobile operator MTN has topped the list as the highest ranked African brand in the prestigious Millward-Brown Brandz Top 100 M...
Ericsson partners with Airtel to deploy Connect To Learn in Malawi
Communications provider Ericsson has joined forces with mobile operator Airtel to expand the Connect to Learn Information and Communication ...
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MTN SIM fraudster nabbed
A collaboration between mobile operator MTN and the South African Police Services has led to the arrest of a key......
Cell C lashes Icasa over fees claim
Mobile operator Cell C has slammed the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), accusing it of being “unable to verif...
Globacom to start $750m network upgrade
Nigerian-based mobile operator Globacom has started an upgrading drive of its current network, and announced that they have signed a $750m c...
Where will consumers get the best Samsung Galaxy S4 deal?
As Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is about to hit the African market, a number of mobile operator have announced their pricing structures ahead o...
MTN Uganda announces LTE network launch
MTN has announced its launch of Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Uganda and claimed to be the first mobile operator in the country to do...
Vodacom debuts SMS interconnect
South Africa’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom, has begun charging an 11c interconnection fee to carry short message service (SMS) text o...
Using technology to save lives in Sierra Leone
The telecommunications industry and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have teamed up to use mobile pho...
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Cell C cuts contract data prices
South African mobile operator Cell C has introduced several new promotional rates for its contract data offerings. “Cell C has always p...
Nokia, Airtel in consumer driven alliance for Africa
Global mobile operator Nokia and telecommunications services company Airtel have announced a broad partnership agreement across Africa to d...
Safaricom selects Gemalto’s cloud-based solution to offer Kenyan mobile users phonebook back-up services
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has announced that Safaricom, a leading mobile operator in Africa, with over 18 million custo...
Cell C faces competition complaint
The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (Waspa) resolved at its annual general meeting on Thursday to file a complaint aga...
MTN eyes 200m subscribers
Mobile operator MTN is targeting 200 million subscribers across its operations in 22 countries in Africa and the Middle East by mid-year 2...
Exceptional achievement for MTN Cameroon in 2012
The MTN President and Group CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa has just presented the MTN Group results for 2012. The results reflect solid operational an...
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Airtel Africa partners with UN to provide info system for women farmers
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between United Nations (UN) Women and mobile operator Airtel Africa where Women farmers in th...
Now 8ta slashes prepaid rates
Just hours after MTN announced it was slashing prepaid rates on its One Rate prepaid plan, Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, has joined the p...
Airtel to roll out Wi-Fi in 17 African countries
Airtel Africa plans to deploy “tens of thousands of carrier-grade access points in high-traffic areas throughout its pan-continental netwo...
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Angry Wasps attack Cell C
Mobile operator Cell C is allegedly giving Blue Label Telecoms-owned wireless application service providers (Wasps) preferential rates and s...
Icasa shoots down Cell C over rates
The Independent Communications Authority South Africa (Icasa) has turned down a request from mobile operator Cell C to postpone this Friday...
Safaricom to ditch feature phones
Kenya’s biggest mobile operator, Safaricom, has said it will stop selling feature phones in its own retail stores in an effort to increase...
Cell C wants urgent review of rates
Mobile operator Cell C is lobbying the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to delay the reduction in wholesale mobi...
MTN first with BlackBerry Z10
BlackBerry's 10 OS flagship device, the Z10, will be available through MTN as of Friday.
Second mobile operator MTN has unexpectedly......
‘It’s my duty to be desperate’ – WirelessG CEO
WirelessG CEO Carel van der Merwe has hit back at mobile operator Vodacom’s claims in court papers that his company is “desperate”, sa...
Cell C steps up mobile price war
Mobile operator Cell C will from next month give prepaid and top-up consumers, who recharge with R500 or higher, free, unlimited calls to ot...
Vodacom, WirelessG to talk
WirelessG CEO Carel van der Merwe says the Wi-Fi communications specialist has agreed to enter into talks with Vodacom after the mobile oper...
Orange denies eXpansys closure link
Orange has denied there is any link between the closure of local online e-retailing website eXpansys.co.za and the France Telecom-owned mobi...
‘Vodacom walked all over us’
Vodacom is facing a court challenge from Wi-Fi specialist WirelessG, which claims the mobile operator, South Africa’s biggest, has reneged...
Orange to launch operations in South Africa
Telecommunications firm France Telecom-Orange plans to announce its entry into the South African mobile market as it kicks off its sponsorsh...
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Orange to launch operations in South Africa
Telecommunications firm France Telecom-Orange plans to announce its entry into the South African mobile market as it kicks off its sponsorsh...
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