MTN, the telecommunications company with a presence in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East, have announced the extension of its managed services agreement with Ericsson for operation in Ghana.
31 Jan 2012 13:36
The launch of
Spinlet, Africa's digital distribution service was celebrated this week at
Midem 2012, in Cannes, France. The service is expected to debut within Africa this February with over 200 000 tracks, making it the largest platform for music discovery throughout Africa.
31 Jan 2012 10:14
In the Federal High Court of Nigeria, the honorable Justice Shuaib, handed down judgment in the matter between Econet Wireless Ltd (EWL) vs. Bharti Airtel Nigeria Limited. Bharti Airtel has since issued a statement to the media.
30 Jan 2012 13:39[Anna McGovern] More people in Africa's poorest countries have mobile phones than have bank accounts. That reality is spurring mobile service companies to explore how they can capture a share of the potential banking market by enabling migrants from these countries to transfer funds back home to their families.
24 Jan 2012 11:28 
SAN FRANCISCO, US: Apple has announced that the latest version of its hot-selling iPhones will be released in China and 21 other countries on 13 January. It is already available in South Africa.
6 Jan 2012 09:43Following rumors that the Nigerian government had instructed telecom operators to shut down their Blackberry service in the country, the executive director and chief operating officer at Airtel Networks Limited, Deepak Srivastava, released a statement yesterday, 3 January 2012, to dispel the rumour.
4 Jan 2012 10:21
LAGOS, NIGERIA: As Nigerians celebrate this year's yuletide, leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria, has joined in the celebrations, wishing every Nigerian a happy holiday and a prosperous 2012 - but it's also cautioned Nigerians.
30 Dec 2011 06:58
Airtel Ghana, last week, re-launched its mobile money platform, under a new brand name Airtel Money, which has been positioned to provide customers with an efficient alternative to cash transactions and provide millions of Ghanaians with access to banking services for the first time.
19 Dec 2011 08:36
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today announced that it has plans to launch a West Africa Local Council in March 2012 to promote, educate, measure, guide and protect the industry in the region.
28 Nov 2011 12:50
W.AFRI-TEL, the West African Telecom Exhibition, which takes place from 8-10 May 2012 at the Eko Hotel fair ground in Lagos, Nigeria, will facilitate business opportunities in the telecom sector, enabling exhibitors to gain access to the Nigerian telecom market that contains over 80 million mobile subscribers.
17 Nov 2011 10:56In Q3 of 2011 a total of 3.2 billion ads were served across continental Africa. This continues a year of growth across Continental Africa characterised by 135% more traffic compared to 2010. Seven countries drew traffic in excess of 100 million ads served per quarter and three countries (South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya) saw more than half a billion ads served in Q3 2011.
16 Nov 2011 13:48
TransferTo and the MTN Group last week announced that the implementation of their International Airtime Transfer (IAT) partnership in MTN operating companies is well underway.
14 Nov 2011 12:15AdaptiveMobile, a global mobile security company has completed a mobile content filtering, anti-spam and anti-virus protection project with MTN Nigeria which enables the operator to protect its network and subscribers from undesired mobile content through mobile handsets and mobile data-enabled PCs.
10 Nov 2011 13:30
Spinlet, a San Francisco-based company dedicated to meeting the needs of music lovers and artists allowing them to buy, listen, share, and manage music within a user-friendly mobile platform, will debut their technology at
AfricaCom 2011, which takes place from Wednesday 9 November until Thursday 10 November 2011 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa.
8 Nov 2011 10:40
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