Sherif Hamoudah, Executive VP Sales & Marketing, Acision, talks to telecoms.com at the AfricaCom conference about how mobiel operators can remain relevant to their subscribers. It’s an issue that the fixed line carriers have already had to address, he says.
African tower management firm Eaton Towers on Monday announced the immediate appointment of Peter Lewis as CFO. Lewis joins the company from emerging markets operator Millicom International Cellular (MIC), where he held the post of treasurer and head of corporate finance.
Infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks said Tuesday that it is selling off the WiMAX equipment portfolio acquired from Motorola Solutions as part of a wider deal earlier this year. The division will be sold to messaging and infrastructure player NewNet Communication Technologies for an undisclosed sum, along with around 300 employees, as well as active customer and supplier contracts.
Amid the growing popularity of mobile money services in Africa, Orange said that its own offering has reached three million customers, after tripling its user base in the last year.
If mobile government services in Africa are to be more sustainable than previous e-government initiatives, they must benefit all stakeholders. Today, the business model is uncertain. To put it bluntly, governments have limited budgets and the end users with most to gain from mobile government are often living in poverty in remote rural areas. As a result, telecom operators anticipate only modest, if any, return for providing low-cost connectivity and backhaul for these services.
According to the E-Government Survey published by the UN in 2010, although African countries generally lag behind other markets in the rankings of e-government implementation, there has been improvement in the region since the 2008 survey, particularly in northern Africa. Tunisia and Egypt were two of the highest-ranked countries in Africa alongside Mauritius, South Africa and Seychelles.
Elisabeth Medou-Badang, Chief Executive Officer, Orange Botswana, talks to James Middleton about the unique dynamics of the Botswanan mobile market, where penetration is already at 150 per cent and ARPU is one of the highest in Africa. Medou-Badang also comments on Orange’s partnership with Astellia to deliver KPIs on voice and data.
Lars Linden, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Ericsson, talks about developments in ICT that are changing the society we live in. Connectivity and access are making the world a smaller place, he says.
Doron Ben Sira, Chief Executive Officer, SkyVision, talks about expanding the satellite operator’s reach to new markets and new verticals, where it is filling the gap left by a lack of fibre.
Spyros Sellinas, Sales Manager, Intracom Telecom, talks about the continuous innovation on Wireless Transmission and Turnkey solutions for demanding modern communications.
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Over The Top providers have become the staple wildcard in almost any sector set on a collision path with mobile. By and large they are very good at what they do: connecting a user with their chosen content or service by whatever means available.
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