Reduced Call Tariffs for East Africa?
Governments and mobile operators are being urged to negotiate a reduction in the in the tax rate and call charges for communication within the region.
A mobile phone user (file photo).
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Rwanda:
Telecoms Take Fight for Clients to Data Market
New Times, 11 March 2013
BlackBerry phones have become the newest battle tool for customers in the telecom service sector in Rwanda, indicating that data services, coupled with mobile money services, may… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Global Mobile Access On the Rise
New Times, 6 March 2013
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) predicts that there will soon be as many mobile phone subscriptions as people inhabiting the planet, with the figure set to nudge… Read more »
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Tanzania:
It's Time Providers Lowered Mobile Phone Costs
Daily News, 5 March 2013
THE reduction of interconnection rates between phone services providers made subscribers believe that telecommunication will become cheaper with effect from Friday, last week. Read more »
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Rwanda:
Tigo, BPR in a New Deal for Easy Airtime Purchase
Focus, 4 March 2013
Tigo Rwanda and Banque Populaire (BPR) have started a new partnership that will allow subscribers of the telecom company and who are clients of the bank to easily purchase airtime… Read more »
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Kenya:
Yumobile Counts On Low Price to Deliver Profits
The Star, 4 March 2013
Essar Telecom (ETKL) entered the Kenyan market in December 2008 at a time when the mobile communications market seemed to have reached its peak. At the time, there were about 14.5… Read more »
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Uganda:
UCC Faults Telecoms On Poor Quality
Independent (Kampala), 17 February 2013
Today, a mobile phone call could be a matter of life and death. The ability to make just one mobile phone call could save your life or land you a job or business deal that could… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Tigo Hits the Streets to Understand Customers
Focus, 14 February 2013
A team of almost 100 Tigo collaborators took to the streets of Ruvabu to ask people what they like about the telecoms company and what new things they want. The survey is part of a… Read more »
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Mobile companies that send unsolicited messages and charge for dropped calls will face a penalty, according to executive director of the Communications Commission, Godfrey ... Read more »
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More than two million unregistered SIM cards have been switched off so far, as government continues its move to reduce crime and terrorism related activities. Read more »