WEST AFRICAMTN Cote d'Ivoire acquires Arobase Telecom and Afnet
The MTN Group, through its Cote d'Ivoire subsidiary, has acquired 100% of Arobase Telecom SA as well as 100% of Afnet. 2 Oct 2008 10:19

WEST AFRICANew investor to take over NITEL in 2009
A new core investor is to take over the Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd (NITEL) and its subsidiary Mobile Telecommunications Ltd (MTEL), in February 2009, the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), said on Tuesday, 23 September 2008. 25 Sep 2008 10:57

WEST AFRICANokia Siemens Network launches in Ivory Coast
Nokia Siemens Networks on Monday, 22 September 2008, officially launched its operations in Ivory Coast to reinforce its presence in the country through a telecommunications professional team. 23 Sep 2008 14:02

WEST AFRICAVodafone completes purchase of Ghana Telecom stake
London: Mobile phone giant Vodafone annonuced today, it had completed the purchase of a 70% stake in state-run Ghana Telecommunications. 18 Aug 2008 11:30

WEST AFRICAAre you an email addict?
According to AOL Mail's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they're hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day. One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day and some even, for crying out loud, check their emails while in church. Granted, the survey is an American one, but are African's so different? Are you an email addict? 5 Aug 2008 09:41

WEST AFRICAGlobacom targets two million subscribers in one year
Ghana's 6th mobile phone license holder, Globacom, has projected that its outfit will hit a two million subscriber mark in the first year of operation. 24 Jul 2008 11:21

WEST AFRICAOrange to peddle iPhone in Africa
[Rachelle Crum] Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has signed a new deal with Apple to offer the iPhone to its customers in several parts of Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. The company already has an exclusive deal with Apple to sell the phone in France. 19 May 2008 06:55

WEST AFRICAGlo-ing new expansion contract
Alcatel-Lucent announced yesterday, 15 May, that it has signed a contract with Globacom (Glo), Nigeria's second largest national operator to extend the network capacity and performance of Globacom's mobile and fixed networks. 16 May 2008 12:48

WEST AFRICASafaricom taps Equity Bank for staff share loans
[Walter Wafula] Safaricom, one of Kenya's leading mobile telephone service providers, has made a deal with Equity Bank to allow its staff to access loans for the acquisition of its IPO shares through the bank at a subsidised interest rate of 10%. 11 Apr 2008 06:17

WEST AFRICAGlobacom launches another fibre backbone
[Remmy Nweke] Second National Carrier, Globacom, has launched its Optic Fibre Cable backbone to enhance transmission of both voice and data on the network. Speaking during the launch at Owerri, capital of Imo State in Eastern Nigeria, Martins Olowonihi, acting Chief Operating noted that the backbone would offer Nigerians, mostly those in the South Eastern part of the country and Owerri precisely, the convergence of voice, data and multimedia solutions. 2 Apr 2008 12:27

WEST AFRICACourt orders MTN, Celtel to compensate subscribers
[Remmy Nweke] A Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, has insisted that the two-some Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) operators, MTN and Celtel, must compensate their subscribers over poor quality of service experienced as at 31 January 2008. 31 Mar 2008 12:50

WEST AFRICANigeria reaps from telecom licensing
Nigeria has attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the tune of US$11.5 billion (about N1,357,000,000,000 trillion) in the telecommunications industry, just as the Federal Government (FG) has earned over US$2.2 billion (about N259,600,000,000 billion) from spectrum licensing in the last five years. 25 Mar 2008 12:06

WEST AFRICANigeria Mobile Football Trivia game kicks off with the English Premiership - Starfish Mobile
Starfish Mobile Nigeria has teamed up with Zain, a major mobile telecommunications company, to launch the second Mobile Football Trivia Game in that region. The latest game will be based on the current English Premiership League. The first mobile trivia game was launched in June and was based on the 2008 Euro Champs tournament. 11 Sep 2008 18:55