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Zain Nigeria has introduced a new service that enables mobile phone users to keep connect with leading social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo via SMS (short message service)....

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Bharti Airtel, which acquired the African Zain’s African assets a few months ago is seeking bids to set up towers in Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania. The Business Standard reports that the company...

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Cote d’Ivoire’s first independent tower company “SWAP Technologies and Telecomms Limited” (SWAP) has gone live with its built-to-suit telecoms co-location cell sites, the first cell sites built...

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With the FIFA World Cup transforming South Africa’s infrastructure with high-speed rail systems, better roads and state-of-the-art power systems, now is the time for African businesses to also take...

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Global IT vendor Panda Security has drawn up a list of the most widely used scams over the last few years. These circulating tricks all have the same objective: to defraud users of amounts ranging...

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Listed telecommunication firm Safaricom is expected to begin technical trial of the 4G (fourth generation) technology on its network within the next two months. The roll out of the next generation...

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Just a few weeks ago, Cell C launched a massive brand campaign where they admitted what every telecommunications subscriber in South Africa already knows: the country’s cellular industry has a real...

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Nashua Limited has been appointed a Preferred Partner of Hewlett-Packard (HP) South Africa, in the hope of leveraging not only the equity of these two great brands, but exploring new markets as well....

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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library, more commonly known as ITIL, is currently in its third iteration, offering a common language as well as best practice guidelines for IT service...

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The ongoing rate price war among mobile operators in Kenya has left Zain Kenya subscribers smiling after the network slashed its call rates by 50% to all networks in Kenya. Zain Kenya now has the...

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TEACHERS in Kenya can now acquire laptops complete with broadband internet connection and other software from Safaricom at affordable rates. This follows the signing of a partnership between Kenya’s...

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ZIMBABWE’S largest cellular mobile company, Econet Wireless is now offering a comprehensive per-second billing system that applies across networks and on international calls. ...

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HP recently announced that it has submitted to 3PAR Inc. a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of 3PAR for $24.00 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $1.6 billion. The proposed...

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Leading Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom will soon be able to offer new, personalised services to its subscribers. The operator is deploying Nokia Siemens Networks’ Subscriber Data Management (SDM)...

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Alcatel-Lucent will extend the West Africa Cable System (WACS) from Portugal to the UK to meet the increasing need for capacity driven by broadband services penetration. Spanning 2,000 km and...

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MOBILE subscriptions in Kenya went up 2.7% to hit 19.9 million in the first quarter of 2010, compared to 19.4 million in the previous quarter. Mobile penetration reached 51% in the first quarter of...

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TELKOM Kenya has taken the initiative in the on-going mobile telephony war in the country by announcing the lowest on-net tariff of Sh2, and slashed its off-net tariff to Sh4 for its GSM...

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Cloud computing is one of those IT buzz phrases that you may think means nothing to you as a marketer. In reality, cloud computing can help you to leverage marketing automation technology at a low...

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Digital agency merger announced Cambrient, Stonewall+, Brandsh go Native. An African advertising industry shake up looms as three of South Africa’s top players in the online marketing space join to...

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I was a fairly early adopter of Twitter. I think I opened my original account in 2006, or 2007 at the latest. At the time, it was just considered a geeky tool for a few addicts. After a year or so,...

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