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Angola: National Radio Engaged in Technological Modernisation for Countrywide Coverage
06 10 2008 The National Radio of Angola (RNA) has undertaken a plan for technical and technological modernisation aiming at providing radio coverage throughout the national territory.
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Uganda: UCC Happy With Sector's Results, 10 Years Later
06 10 2008 The Uganda Communications Commission reported last week that over $850 million has been invested in the country's communications industry over the past decade, generating a total revenue turnover of $2 billion.
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Africa: GTV Gets $35 Million Boost As It Targets 1 Million Viewers
06 10 2008 Pan African satellite TV operator GTV has received a capitalisation of $35 million, bringing the total capital invested into the company to almost $200 million.
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Nigeria: Bank Customers Lament Poor ATM Services
06 10 2008 Again, users of Automated Teller Machines (ATM), across the country, had reasons to complain of poor services, following heavy demands from holidaymakers. Mostly affected were customers who travelled to their country homes and had relied on the ATM to withdraw money during the long holidays.
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Nigeria: BT Telconsult Partners MTN for Fast-Growing Enterprise Solution
06 10 2008 BT telconsult has reached a new consulting agreement with MTN Nigeria Communications Limited to design and deliver enterprise services and solutions across Nigeria.
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Uganda: UCC Operations Appreciated
06 10 2008 Dr Hamadou Toure the Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), has lauded Uganda for excelling in the communications revolution in Africa.
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Côte d'Ivoire: MTN Acquires 100 Percent of Two Major Operators
06 10 2008 The MTN Group has acquired 100 percent of Cote d'Ivoire's second fixed-line operator, Arobase Telecom, and Afnet, an Internet Service Provider ISP.
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Uganda: UTL Steps Up Presence in Competitive Market
06 10 2008 Uganda Telecom has taken steps to stamp its presence in the increasingly competitive telecom market with $115 million network expansion. The company recently completed another phase of expansion in which it extended its network to cover more than 75 per cent of the Ugandan population.
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Ghana: Journalists Advised to Employ the Use of ICT
06 10 2008 An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Expert has advised Journalists to employ the use of ICT in order to enhance their work. The expert stresses that the use of ICT would not make journalists perfect in their work but would help improve their output.
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Rwanda: Laptops for 2.5 Million Children By 2012
06 10 2008 Rwanda recently officially launched the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative that the government in Kigali committed to last year. The ambitious programme is targeting 80 per cent or 2.5 million children in five years' time.
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Rwanda: Zain, 3 Others Bid to Become Country's Third Phone Operator
06 10 2008 Zain Group is among four firms that have submitted bids for Rwanda's third telecommunication operator's license.
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Africa: Training Programe Aims to Advance ICT Strategies
06 10 2008 Policy makers who formulate Information and Communication Technology agendas for governments will attend Commonwealth workshop
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Ghana: Vodafone Makes Inroads
06 10 2008 Barely forty-nine days since announcing its presence on Ghanaian soil after successfully getting the nod by the nation's Parliament to begin full operations, Vodafone-GT has been working vehemently to improve its services to benefit its clientele.
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Ghana: Nokia Opens Care Centre in Accra
06 10 2008 Nokia, the world's leader in mobility and network equipment, solutions and services, has opened its first Nokia Care Centre in Ghana.
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Africa: ICT - Continent's Underdevelopment Blamed On Forerunners
06 10 2008 The underdevelopment of Africa has been blamed, among others things, on the inability of the continent's forerunners to transfer their experience and knowledge to posterity to improve upon for meaningful development and growth.
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Nigeria: Telecom, Personalities Converge for CTO 2008 On Monday
06 10 2008 Major telecommunications and ICT personalities, as well as operators, including the secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Dr. Hamadoun Toure, will converge in Abuja, the Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for a four-day summit tagged, Abuja CTO 2008.
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Nigeria: FG Denies Replacing Nitel, Glo With Nigcomsat
06 10 2008 The federal government has denied replacing NITEL and Globacom with the Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) as the national telecommunications carrier.
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Rwanda: Korea Telecom Pledges to Support Country's ICT
06 10 2008 The Executive Vice President of Korea Telecom (KT) Kim Hansuk yesterday pledged his company's support for the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Rwanda.
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East Africa: After Computer Comes Power to Communicate
06 10 2008 The trendiest phrase in the geek world today is "cloud computing", which is an evolution that basically means that technology users no longer hold physically onto their data and applications in the machines at their offices, but rather have it all centrally stored in a virtual world (the clouds).
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Rwanda: Korean Firm Signs $38 Million Internet Deal
04 10 2008 Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) Friday signed a US$ 38 million contract with Korea Telecom (KT) to have the latter set up the National Backbone Project which will enable high-speed internet network in the country using fiber-optic technology.
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South Africa: Telkom Confirms Wireless Network Plan
03 10 2008 TELKOM has confirmed its plan to roll out a new wireless network with the prime aim of winning more business from small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Africa: Broadcasters Grapple With How to Create Local Content That Travels Well
03 10 2008 Last week saw 200 African broadcasters and film-makers gather for the first genuinely pan-African conference for these two important sectors. There was a palpable excitement in the air as participants realised that the African broadcast and film industries are at a turning point with both increased audiences and investment. One recurring theme throughout the conference was the contradictory need for local content that might travel well to other countries and the relationship with the cost of international rights. Other themes (advertising, digitalisation and convergence) are picked up in stories in the news sections below. Russell Southwood reports on the consistent drum-beat for more content with people you recognize.
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Nigeria: Government Considers Another National Telecoms Carrier
02 10 2008 The Federal Government, through the Nigeria Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT), may have begun moves to set up another national carrier without an open bid process even as it is arranging to do away with its stake in NITEL.
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Rwanda: Kagame Launches One Laptop Per Child
02 10 2008 President Paul Kagame has said that enabling all primary school children to own computers was the government's ultimate goal. This was during the official launch of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative at Jali Club yesterday.
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South Africa: Jobs Grow 30 Percent in Western Cape Call Centres
01 10 2008 The cost of domestic and international communications was a major barrier to growth, particularly in a sector such as the call centre and business process outsourcing industry, Western Cape's economic development MEC Garth Strachan said yesterday.
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