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South Africa: Internet Providers Lose Out on Licences

02.07.2008 18:34    allafrica.com
TECHNOLOGY companies hoping to win a licence to build their own voice and data networks have been snubbed by the regulatory authority and will still be forced to lease their bandwidth from the incumbent telecoms operators.


Zimbabwe: Mobile Network Operators Hike Tariffs 100 Percent

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
THE country's three mobile network operators - Econet, TelOne and Telecel - yesterday hiked tariffs by slightly over 100 percent.

South Africa: Investors Unsure On MTN-India Deal

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
INDIAN investors are getting twitchy as a 45-day period of exclusive talks between MTN and Reliance Communications draws to an end, with no solid news to indicate if a deal will happen.

Uganda: Makerere Students for Microsoft Contest

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
FOUR students from Makerere University are to represent East African universities in this year's Microsoft Imagine Challenge Cup world finals to be held in France next month.


Rwanda: Learning Science, Mathematics Through ICT

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
The New Times' RWEMBEHO STEPHEN attended an Education Quality (Edqual) workshop in Kigali Institute of Education, where scholars were brainstorming on how to use ICT in teaching science and mathematics. The two leaders of the project, Dr. Paul Denley and

Nigeria: MTN Acquires Verizon Business in South Africa

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
MTN has entered into an agreement with Verizon Business; a part of US based Verizon Communications Incorporation, to acquire 100% of Verizon South Africa (Pty) Ltd (Verizon Business South Africa).

Nigeria: Government and People Must Work Together to Reduce Digitalisation Cost - NBC Boss

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
Recently, Vanguard's Asst. Editor, Communications, Okoh Aihe, had a chance encounter with Engr Yomi Bolarinwa, acting Director - General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC.

Nigeria: NCC Assures Consumers of Reduction in Sms Tariff

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
THE Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Ernest Ndukwe, yesterday assured consumers that plans were underway to reduce SMS tariff by GSM operators.

Nigeria: Why North is Backward - Shinkafi

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
Zamfara state Governor, Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, has said that for any meaningful progress to be made in the northern part of Nigeria, the region must change its attitude towards modern political and economic demands, noting that the greatest development challenge

Nigeria: MTN Buys SA Telecom Firm, May Seal $70 Billion Rcom Deal

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
IN it's avowed commitment to become a global leading telecom player, Africa's biggest mobile provider, the MTN Group of South Africa last Friday announced it had entered into an agreement with Verizon Business, to acquire 100 per cent of Verizon

Nigeria: Global Installed PCs to Hit 2 Billion By 2014 - Studies

02.07.2008 12:38    allafrica.com
While Nigerian Personal Computers, (PCs) market continues to grow at geometric progression as a result of high demand, analysts house, Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company has predicted that the number of installed PCs around the

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