Etisalat Nigeria Leads MNP Race?
Seven weeks into Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Nigeria has seen the fastest growing telecommunications
company, Etisalat already taking a huge lead with almost 50 per cent of ported numbers coming its way. This revelation was made after [...]
Vivendi urges France Telecom to bid for Maroc Telecom
French media group Vivendi is reportedly urging France Telecom-Orange (FT-Orange) to place a bid for Vivendi’s
controlling stake in Moroccan incumbent telco Maroc Telecom, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to people familiar with [...]
DRC confirms belated WACS switch-on
After several missed opportunities, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has finally managed to connect the country’s telecoms infrastructure to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) submarine network, which links South Africa to the UK. According [...]
yu changes tack and requests 3G licence
Essar Telecom Kenya, which operates under the ‘yu’ brand name, has confirmed that – contrary to previous indications – it will invest in a 3G network in order to attract new subscribers. The firm had previously said it would skip 3G [...]
MTN Liberia inks $25m syndicated loan for network rollout /upgrade
Mobile operator MTN Liberia (Lonestar Cell) has secured a syndicated loan worth $25 million with a group of financial institutions comprising the United Bank of Africa, Liberia Bank for Development and Investment, Guaranteed Trust and Ecobank [...]
Inactive telephone lines now 44.6 million – NCC
The number of inactive telephone lines in the telecommunications industry stood at 44,647,096 in the first quarter of the year. In the monthly subscriber data posted on the website of the Nigerian Communications Commission, it was stated that [...]
Samsung to launch Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced Model
Electronics giant Samsung announced today that they will be releasing a variant of their highly-successful Galaxy S4 –
but the new model will feature LTE-Advanced. That would make the Galaxy S4 model the only LTE-Advanced model commercially [...]
Four Asian markets pledge 700MHz mobile broadband commitment
Communications regulators from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore today announced a commitment to align with the APT 700MHz band plan.
At an event held today in Singapore, the group noted the potential for this spectrum to [...]
Etisalat Nigeria Partners TECNO for New ‘Phantom A’ Smartphone
In its determination to continuously provide its teeming customers with the best products and services to satisfy their communication needs, Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunication company, Etisalat has partnered with [...]
Telkom sues Blue Label Telecoms for $528 million
While Telkom’s Multi-Links deal in Nigeria is no more, the company is far from done with tying up loose ends. During Telkom’s annual results presentation in Johannesburg on Friday, they state-owned entity revealed that it has filed a suit [...]
