CAIRO: Sudanese telecom company Canar announced it had reached an agreement on Tuesday with Dublin-based technology company i-conX. The deal revolved around improving routing technology in Canar’s telecommunication infrastructure. Canar, which was established in 2005, was already an i-conX partner and had made several agreements improving quality of service and surveillance of it’s vast network. [...]
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CAIRO: The United Arab Emirates’ telecom operator Etisalat, the Gulf region’s largest telecom company, said on Monday evening that it hopes to acquire a license to operate in Libya or to invest in one of the country’s already existing operators. Libya’s current two state-run mobile operators are Madar and Libyana, and a third government-run company [...]
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KAMPALA: India’s African subsidiary in Burkina Faso has been fined by the regulator ARCEP for not meeting quality of service standards set. Two other operators, Telmob and Telecel have also been fined under the same breaches. ARCEP has imposed penalty of around 2.7 billion CFA (Rs 27 crore approximately) on Airtel, Telmob and Telecel. Maximum [...]
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CAIRO: Egypt’s Vodafone, the second-largest telecom operator in the country, recently reported that its operations in North African countries have performed better than in southern European markets. Setbacks to its performance in Southern Europe is a result of price cuts imposed by governing regulators and weakening spending powers in countries such as Italy and Spain, [...]
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CAIRO: Etisalat Group chairman Mohammad Omran, addressed the TEDx on Monday in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. The conference is considered to be the first of its kind following the revolution in the country. Omran was speaking as part of the delegation alongside several important board members of Etisalat. Etisalat has a large base in North Africa, [...]
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CAIRO: France Telecom will increase its ownership of Egyptian telecommunications giant Mobinil, the companies announced earlier on Monday. The deal comes after several weeks of discussion with Orascom about the future of the Egyptian telecommunications company. France Telecom agreed to invest 1.5 billion euros into the shares while Orascom agreed to retain five percent of [...]
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CAIRO: Algerie Telecom Satellite (ATS) has signed two contacts with Eutelsat Communications concerning the new Atlantic Bird 7 satellite, which was launched by Eutelsat recently at a vital location for broadcasting and communication services. The two 5-year contracts aim on expanding and penetrating Algeria’s mobile telephony service and the government’s data networks. It also comes [...]
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LAGOS: Ghana’s leading telecommunications companies are threatening to take legal action against the country’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authorities (PURC) and the Electric Company over its inconsistent power output, which the companies say has threatened their viability and customer service. “Our heavy industrial equipment is daily affected by the inconsistency in power supply, its either low [...]
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LAGOS: Africa’s largest mobile phone operator MTN has announced it was launching a new rewards scheme for customers in Ghana in West Africa. The goal is to reboot their brand in the country as Glo enters the market. The move has been met with optimism by industry experts, who say it could help create increased [...]
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LAGOS: Nigeria’s leading provider of carrier services Phase3 Telecom and Dancom Technologies announced they had inked a partnership deal that will boost broadband services in the country. They said in a joint press statement that the two would work together to upgrade their respective networks in order to “provide robust transmission services to deliver reliable [...]
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KAMPALA: Despite massive challenges facing the telecom sector in the country amidst large growth in recent years, Ugandans remain optimistic that the industry can continue to move forward. One of those challenges is SIM registration, which will begin on March 1 and run for one-year in an effort to crackdown on unregistered SIM cards in [...]
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LAGOS: Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator said on Monday that it hopes to increase the number of subscribers to its fixed-line licenses in the next year as an effort to boost broadband Internet services in the country. Speaking to Bloomberg news agency, Eugene Juwah, the Nigerian Communications Commission chief executive officer, said that fixed-lines are key to [...]
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New Delhi (dpa) – Norway’s Telenor ASA said it would consider quitting India because it had been “unfairly harmed” by a court order cancelling licenses including those held by its local venture. Sigve Brekke, head of Telenor’s Asian operations, said the company was in talks with the government and could seek a review of the [...]
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New Delhi (dpa) – An Indian court ruled Saturday that Home Affairs Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram would not have to stand trial in a multi-billion dollar telecoms corruption scandal. The petition, by regional politician Subramaniam Swamy, to summon Chidambaram as an accused in the case was dismissed by the New Delhi court. Swamy had alleged that [...]
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DUBAI: The 4th Global Telecom Customer Retention and Profitability Summit is scheduled to take place on 16 – 17 April 2012 at Amwaj Rotana, Jumeriah Beach, Dubai, UAE. After the great success of three annual editions of the event held in South Africa, Fleming Gulf Conferences brings the global edition of its Telecom summit to [...]
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CAIRO: The sale of Rwandatel will not be going to Libya’s LAP Green as the company continues to reel during the post-Muammar Gaddafi era. The announcement from Rwanda’s telecom operator’s adminstration on Wednesday comes less than a month after Zambia revoked the sale of its telecom operator to the Libyan company. Rwandatel is up for [...]
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DUBAI: Saudi Arabia is getting excited over the telecom sector’s push toward the 4G LTE network. At Telsa, the only dedicated telecoms and ICT exhibition and conference in the Gulf kingdom, regional experts are hopeful that the 4G introduction into the country will create a boost for the telecom industry. The three-day event in Riyadh [...]
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NAIROBI: Kenya’s telecom regulator has rejected the appeal made by telecommunication companies asking for the immediate reduction in their monthly license fees. The Daily Nation reported that the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) turned down the appeal, stating that the rates are appropriate and would not be changed. “Any such cut would risks crippling the [...]
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DUBAI: The need for broadband capacity in the MENA–region (Middle East & North Africa) is rising exponentially as demand for data transmission in key markets is rapidly growing. According to MENA Telecom Infrastructure Fund (Menatif) the MENA broadband market makes for a great investment opportunity. Better connectivity All the larger countries with relatively young populations [...]
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LAGOS: Tigo Ghana is losing ground to its nearest competitor, Vodafone Ghana, a new report published by the National Communications Authority (NCA) has revealed. The report shows that through December of last year, Vodafone Ghana has moved into a solid second place in the sector ahead of Tigo. “By the start of this year Vodafone’s [...]
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