[Carole Kimutai: @CaroleKimutai] GOtv, a pay television service in Kenya has slashed its subscription fees as part of growing its market share, even as the country is implementing the migration from analogue to digital television.
10 Sep 2012 10:10
Kenya ICT Board and Kenya IT and Outsourcing Services (KITOS), the country's new IT industry body, have jointly sealed a partnership with technology event organiser AITEC Africa as host partners for the upcoming East Africa ICT Summit,set to take place in Nairobi from 24-25 October 2012.
7 Sep 2012 10:02
Alan Peevers has been appointed as the new managing director of Y&R Nairobi, the ad gency at the centre of the Y&R Brands business in Kenya, where he will retain the role of creative director - the position he was hired to fulfil earlier this year.
5 Sep 2012 14:34
StarTimes Media recently initiated a decoder upgrade offer targeted at not only current StarTimes T1 decoder holders but also former GTV and Smart TV decoder holders, who were left with obsolete decoders when the two companies closed.
3 Sep 2012 09:32
[Duncan McLeod: @mcleodd] TechCentral wraps up the week's major technology news from around the African continent.
21 Aug 2012 10:24[Aly Khan Satchu] I always marvel at the popularity of my newspaper seller. The appetite for news in Kenya is simply off the charts. And that has been the case for as long as I can remember.
21 Aug 2012 10:05 The Ugandan government over the weekend once again revealed plans to build an alternative undersea cable to service the nation, as constant interruptions from Kenya is no longer a viable option.
20 Aug 2012 09:59
[Carole Kimutai: @CaroleKimutai] Kenya's digital pay TV market is becoming more competitive with the aggressive entry of StarTimes Media Kenya, a company that recently launched its services in Kenya's capital Nairobi and second city Kisumu. StarTimes has now launched in Mombasa, the third city as part of its plans to reach seven major towns in Kenya by the end of 2012.
17 Aug 2012 14:33
[Walter Wafula] GOtv, a low cost pay television service owned and operated by MultiChoice Africa celebrates its first year in business in four markets. Patricia Kiconco, the country manager GOtv Uganda speaks about the performance of the brand and its future plans for Africa.
15 Aug 2012 15:49
The US-headquartered technology giant has decided to set up one of its key research labs, its first in Africa, in the East African nation of Kenya.
15 Aug 2012 10:17
The publishers of IT News Africa have launched
African Innovator magazine, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the coverage of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and its impact on Africa.
8 Aug 2012 11:04
The arrival of new submarine telecommunications cables starting in 2009, paired with government investment in the national telecommunications backbone, has spurred a revolution in Tanzania that has seen the cost of internet connectivity drop to as little as US$0.15 a day on a prepaid service.
7 Aug 2012 14:26
[Walter Wafula] New Vision has displaced
Monitor Online as the most visited local website in Uganda following its redesign. The website which is the online version of
The New Vision print newspaper in Uganda regained the top spot last week after the revamped version was uploaded.
7 Aug 2012 13:44
Gateway Communications, a supplier of pan-African telecommunications services, has provided connectivity solution to Emtel, for the remote islands of Agalega and Rodrigues, which form part of the Republic of Mauritius.
31 Jul 2012 15:46
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