At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya .Zain, Ericsson and the Earth Institute announced the provision of telecommunications deliverables to the Millennium Villages of Dertu (Kenya), Ruhiira (Uganda) and Molla (Tanzania).
Zain subsidiary Celtel won the award for the Best Telecoms Operator in Africa at the prestigious 2008 Business in Africa Awards held in London recently, beating a host of other operators to win the award. The awards aimed at highlighting
Zain, the leading mobile telecommunication operator in the Middle East and Africa present in 22 countries, announces today its consolidated financial results for the first half of 2008. The results showed significant growth in revenues with customer numbers exceeding 50
Nairobi, Kenya) 5 August 2008 The recent launch of Zain in Africa was celebrated with a series of spectacular events, attended by over 100,000 people. The events took place simultaneously across the company's 14 African markets and were linked by
CardBoardFish, thelow-cost SMS specialist, today launched FishText, a mobile applicationthat substantially reduces the cost of national and internationalad-free texts from a mobile phone. FishText is Java-based and runs onmost handsets. There is also a web-based version at www.FishText.com.Both bypass a
CBOSSnrtrde will enable telecommunications companies to fulfillrecommendations of the GSM Association and minimize losses associatedwith roaming fraud.
1 August 2008 - Nairobi, Kenya - Zain Group, the leading telecommunications mobile operator servicing over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, today announced it has re-branded its entire African operations from Celtel to
Clickatell, leading provider of global mobile messaging, today announced its partnership with Santam, South Africa’s leading short-term insurer, to provide a text-based fraud reporting channel, as well as improved results from Clickatell-powered Santam call center using SMS text alerts for
Cambridge, UK Wednesday 25th June, 2008: NGO-focused mobile technology organisation kiwanja.net today releases the latest version of its popular text messaging platform FrontlineSMS which opens up the potential of two-way group text messaging to the global grassroots non-profit community.
HSL (Hay Systems Ltd), an independent mobile network operator and provider of mobile services and equipment have today disclosed further details regarding their 2.75G Femtocell development project. HSL have now released details of the physical appearance and have announced plans
According to new a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, WLAN will become the next prevalent connectivity technology in mass-market mobile handsets. The number of handsets with integrated WLAN is forecasted to grow from 27 million in 2007
EMCC Software, the mobile software development specialists, welcomes the recent announcement of the Symbian Foundation. The formation of the Symbian Foundation Platform will bring standardisation and increased certainty to application creators wishing to develop solutions for all Symbian handsets. EMCC
South Africa's fourth mobile operator Virgin Mobile may increase its tariffs if other mobile phone operators in the country decide to do so, its chief executive (CEO) said on Tuesday.
Redwood City, US: May 6, 2008 Clickatell, leading provider of globalmobile messaging, today announced it was chosen as one of three finalistsfor "Best Messaging Business Application" by 160 Characters as part of their2008 Mobile Messaging Awards. As one of
London, UK 29th April 2008, Today saw the launch of an innovative little device called SIMable, which effectively puts an end to the complicated business of mobile phone unlocking.
Cape Town, South Africa, Redwood City, CA: 30 April 2008 - Clickatell,global provider of messaging solutions, has provided the South AfricanParliament with an SMS alert service to support communication at the118th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in South Africarecently.
Gothenburg, Sweden - May 06 2008: According to new a research report fromthe analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of cellular network connectionsused for machine-to-machine communication will grow from 37.5 millionconnections in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
Leading mobile payments provider Mi-Pay has signed a contract with an East African operator to deliver a mobile money ecosystem to its subscribers in rural communities. Mi-Pay’s technology and expertise will enable subscribers to benefit from international remittance services, as
8th May 2008: The leading mobile messaging provider End2End Connectivityhas today announced that it has been selected by KLM Royal DutchAirlines to provide the SMS delivery of flight status notifications(FSN). End2End Connectivity takes care of the carrier grade high-qualitydelivery of
The UK mobile payment initiative payforIT is expanding onto the World Wide Web with the help of leading mobile interactive specialist Dialogue Communications. The payforIT payment mechanism will offer shoppers an online payment alternative and enable internet merchants to reach
