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June 11, 2011
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Africa: New Business Model to Save African Cybercafés
The growing number of African Internet users accessing the Internet via their mobile phone is increasingly becoming a threat to the survival of cybercafés. Read more »
June 10, 2011
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Africa: Satellite Companies Pitch Dth As a Solution to Meeting the Digital Broadcast Transition Deadline
The ITU deadline agreed by most African countries for the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting is only four years away. Elsewhere in the world, the transition has taken... Read more »
June 6, 2011
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Africa: E-Tourism Spreads Post World Cup
E-tourism has always seemed like a no-brainer for the continent as money could be paid direct to hotels and suppliers. But obstacles like the high cost of bandwidth, the lack of... Read more »
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Africa: E-Tourism in the Continent Starts Spreading Post World Cup
E-tourism has always seemed like a no-brainer for the continent as money could be paid direct to hotels and suppliers. But obstacles like the high cost of bandwidth, the lack of... Read more »
May 30, 2011
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Africa's mobile operators have been used to splashing about money on blanket advertising and using headline grabbing tactical price offers. But as an increasing number of African... Read more »
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Africa: New TV Formats for Africa Looking for Sponsors [interview]
One stepping stone from buying international content to producing more local content is the use of TV formats that have established themselves elsewhere. Reality and game shows... Read more »
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Africa: Business Logic Wants to Help African Mobile Operators Get Smarter
Does having a smart marketing software tool make you a smart mobile operator? Well, yes, according to Richard Lewis, Chief Sales Officer - Europe, Middle East and Africa at... Read more »
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Africa: Business Logic Wants to Help Mobile Operators Get Smarter [document]
Does having a smart marketing software tool make you a smart mobile operator? Well, yes, according to Richard Lewis, Chief Sales Officer - Europe, Middle East and Africa at... Read more »
May 26, 2011
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Africa: New TV Formats for Africa Looking for Sponsors [interview]
One stepping stone from buying international content to producing more local content is the use of TV formats that have established themselves elsewhere. Reality and game shows... Read more »
May 24, 2011
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Tunisia: Orange Tunisie to Launch Africa's First APPs Store At the End of May
May 31st is a date to keep in mind because it is the day Orange Tunisie will launch its apps store. It will be the first apps store to go live in an African country. Read more »
May 16, 2011
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Africa: Russians Join Race to Provide Free Satellite TV [interview]
Russian-owned General Satellite Corporation threw its hat into the ring to become a contender in the race to provide a credible DTH Free-To-Air satellite service across the... Read more »
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Africa: Registering Mobile Phones Cuts Numbers
Following the SIM cards registration process, the number of mobile subscribers in Zimbabwe went down by nearly 2.4 million (see full story in the telecoms section). In Ghana,... Read more »
May 13, 2011
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Africa: General Satellite Corporation Ready to Put Money On Table for DTH TV in Africa [interview]
Russian-owned General Satellite Corporation threw its hat into the ring to become a contender in the race to provide a credible DTH Free-To-Air satellite service across the... Read more »
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Africa: Sim Registration in Africa
Following the SIM cards registration process, the number of mobile subscribers in Zimbabwe went down by nearly 2.4 million (see full story in the telecoms section). Read more »
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Ghana: Ghana's Adam's Apples Launches an Innovative Ten-Part Film Series
Ghallywood almost certainly came before Nollywood but somehow Ghanaians are too modest for their own good. This week sees the opening of Shirley Frimpong Manso's Adam's Apples, an... Read more »
May 4, 2011
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Africa: Telcos Can Claim Carbon Credits Under a New Scheme Launched By Nedbank Capital
Although a large number of African telcos use diesel generators to power their base stations and other telecoms equipment, the "green revolution" that should see them make more use... Read more »
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Ghana: Adam's Apples Launches an Innovative Ten-Part Film Series
Ghallywood almost certainly came before Nollywood but somehow Ghanaians are too modest for their own good. This week sees the opening of Shirley Frimpong Manso's Adam's Apples, an... Read more »
April 8, 2011
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Africa: Wi-Fi - Scottish Isles Meets Africa On the Same Road to Providing Service to Scattered Populations
Getting voice and data to Africa's remaining un-served citizens will be a tough nut to crack. Read more »
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Tanzania: New Survey Highlights Steady Growth of Mobile As Media
Intermedia has released the latest in its Audiencescapes series of surveys of media use in African countries. The survey covers Tanzania and contains a number of tantalizing clues... Read more »
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Africa: Broadcasting Changes Challenge Continent
Once upon a time, African broadcast was simple. You were a TV station and you organised your own content and transmission, vertically integrated all the way. Your transmission was... Read more »
March 25, 2011
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Mauritius: Orange Mauritius Turns IPTV And Fibre-to-the-Cabinet Into 'A Driver for Growth'
Fibre-To-The-Home is beginning to be announced in Africa's larger markets: Jamii Telecoms in Kenya (see issue 540), i3Africa in South Africa and Algerie Telecom has been piloting... Read more »
March 23, 2011
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Nigeria: GLO Has Ambition to Become a Major West African Player for Both Mobile And Fibre [interview]
Nigeria's Globacom has slowly been building itself a West African regional position, seeking mobile licences and trying to find more country operators to connect to its Glo One... Read more »
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Gabon: Private Sector Outpaces Govt in Digital TV [interview]
TNT Africa is the brand name of Digital TV, a private Gabonese company that offers Pay TV bouquets using a digital DTT platform. As in many African countries, the private sector is... Read more »
March 16, 2011
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Africa: Solar-Powered Internet Franchises to Expand
With cheaper bandwidth access coming across Africa, cyber-cafes have been having a hard time surviving. Their non-profit cousins telecentres have always struggled to gain traction,... Read more »
March 3, 2011
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Nigeria: Nollywood Movie Makes UK Breakthrough
Last week Thursday saw the first premiere of a Nollywood movie - The Mirror Boy - in the heart of London's cinemaland at the Empire, Leicester Square. Read more »
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