Nigerian operator Globacom this week awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to build what it claims is the first 3G UMTS/HSPA network in West Africa. The agreement following on from a $600m network expansion deal awarded to Alcatel-Lucent in February. Installation will be carried out in a number of major cities, including the capital Abuja and [...]
At 3GSM World Congress in February, telecoms.com sister publication MCI reported that an unidentified but major Middle Eastern carrier was in the process of pulling fibre to 2,000 cell sites. At the IMS World Forum in Monte Carlo yesterday, the mystery glass blower was unmasked as Mobily, Saudi Arabia’s second carrier, which recently launched an [...]
French telecoms giant, France Telecom, is eyeing expansion in the Middle East following the success of its Egyptian operations. On Tuesday, the company’s chairman, Didier Lombard met Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of Communications Tariq Kamel, on the first leg of a three-day trip. Lombard said his company was focused on the region [...]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has awarded four 3G licenses. Celtel, Globacom, MTN and long distance operator Alheri Engineering have all been awarded a 10MHz lot of spectrum in the 2GHz band. The regulator expects to receive the licence fees, which were set at a reserve of $150m, within 14 business days.
Libyana’s GSM subscriber count rose 518 per cent year-on-year in 2006 to an estimated 3.36 million, demonstrating the strongest rate of growth among major operators in the Middle East and Africa last year. The mobile provider was launched in 2004 as Libya’s No. 2 operator but it is now well ahead of incumbent El Madar. [...]
In 2006, Middle Eastern nation Bahrain became the world’s most penetrated country, ending the year with a 139.6 per cent penetration rate that was driven by a 22.6 per cent annual increase in the number of mobile subscribers, according to Global Mobile’s latest survey of global wireless users. Global Mobile is a sister publication of [...]
According to reports Portugal Telecom (PT) is considering setting up a pan-African mobile operator based in Angola. Portuguese weekly, Visao, published an interview with PT’s CEO, Thursday, in which he reveals the firm’s thoughts on the emerging region. “The big pan-African operators are centred in South Africa or in the Middle East but we believe [...]
Qatar Telecom on Friday agreed to buy a controlling stake in Kuwait’s National Mobile Telecommunications (NMT) in one of the biggest telecoms deals from the region. Quatar Telecom (Qtel) took a 51 per cent stake in NMT, costing $3.7bn – viewed by many as high – to strengthen its position across the Middle East and [...]
One of the last sources of independent news available to Zimbabweans, after the Standard newspaper was forced to stop publication, is SW Radio Africa (SWRA), a station based in London and run by exiles. But recently, Robert Mugabe’s government began noise jamming the short wave frequency SWRA broadcasts on. In a bid to beat the [...]
Libya announced Thursday that the country intends to privatise its mobile phone sector starting next week, as part of its wider economic reforms. The announcement was made by the son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, Seif al-Islam. At the inauguration of a national council for economic development, al-Islam said: “The two mobile phone companies, Al-Madar [...]
A step in the right direction but does it go far enough?
Sharing an allowance among family members is one ...
I agree with Dan about this being a excellent read, and that QNX is not well known but sooner or ...
Excellent read with some actual facts compared to the hack journalist/bloggers on the interest. Many don't understand what QNX ...
The main issue with Telenor is that whether they made underhand payments to ge the licenses. If they did, then ...
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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