The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has signed a $10 million financing deal with Liberia's leading telecom company, Lonestar Limited; a company owned 51% by MTN Communications Limited for a network expansion programme. The deal is one of the biggest single projects financing by a commercial bank in the country and underscores UBA Group's role in project financing across Africa.
Hardly a year since Tigo Rwanda was issued a licence to run as a third mobile operator, the telecom company has announced that it's launching its services to the Rwandan people on Monday next week.
THE seventh mobile operator in Uganda, Smiles Communication, starts operations today, using the 02 code.
Experts in the telecommunication industry in the West African Sub-region have called for policy implementation to regulate and also break the monopoly of cyber optic cables in the hands of few players, whiles intensifying the penetration of broadband access to the sub-region.
Kenya is among the first beneficiaries of a project to increase internet usage courtesy of the World Wide Web investor Sir Tim Berners Lee.
Rwanda's third telecom national operator Tigo, yesterday unveiled operations on the market, promising to commercially launch by Monday next week.
Nigeria Internet community would canvass for the appropriate security regulation and application, mostly on Internet Protocol (IP) blocking at the on-going Internet Governance Forum (IGF) holding in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Mobile phone service subscribers on the yu network can now call at a flat rate of Sh6 under a new a tariff.
There are many indignities meted out to children in our educational institutions which bring untold hardship to them and their parents.
Nigeria's national telecommunications operator, Globacom, has taken another major step towards its vision to be the biggest and best telecoms operator in Africa by obtaining an operating licence in Cote d'Ivoire.
Though Senegal has developed an extensive and modern telecommunications infrastructure, overall penetration is still low resulting in attractive opportunities for new entrants to establish call centres, computer factories and to develop software.
Undersea fibre-optic cable operator Seacom has been named the best Pan African initiative at the AfricaCom Awards in Cape Town.
Second National Operator (SNO), Globacom Limited has entered into a partnership with the Ondo State government for the provision of an initial 5,000 postpaid lines for civil servants in Ondo State service as a Closed User Group (CUG).
THE Uganda Communications Commission will announce a price ceiling for cross-network rates next week.
