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Record attendance for AfricaCom 2011The Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa will open its doors to over 6 450 pre-registered attendees for this year's annual AfricaCom event, a significant increase on 2010. Organisers of Africa's largest ICT, media and telecoms conference, Informa Media & Telecoms,... read more 8 Nov 2011 ITNewsAfrica Innovation Dinner secures sponsorsThe bi-monthly ITNewAfrica Innovation Dinner series, a gathering for IT executives across Africa and designed for ICT professionals, entrepreneurs and senior business people to network have announced that HP, Ericsson and the MTN Group are the main sponsors for the dinner to be held on Wednesday 31... read more 19 Aug 2011 Loeries Travelling Exhibition off to North WestThe Loeries Travelling Exhibition sponsored by Adobe will visit North-West University, 25 August -2 September 2011, for its fifth consecutive year and will be hosted by the Potchefstroom Campus' Graphic Design Subject group. The exclusive exhibition will display work across all areas of brand... read more 15 Aug 2011 Vodacom exploring options for Congo businessVodacom International Limited, which holds 51% of Vodacom Congo SPRL has agreed with Congolese Wireless Network SPRL (CWN), the holder of the other 49% of Vodacom Congo SPRL, to appoint NM Rothschild & Sons (South Africa) (Pty) Limited to explore options for the Vodacom Congo SPRL business, it was... read more 28 Dec 2010 Senegal to host 2011 PAMRO Meeting, All Africa Media Research ConferenceThe 13th PAMRO Meeting and All Africa Media Research Conference will take place from 21-24 August 2011 in the Francophone country of Senegal. The cost for the conference will be approximately R3300 excluding air travel and accommodation. For more information, go to www.pamro.org.... read more 16 Nov 2010 Mobile User Experience conference postponedEduNetworks' inaugural Mobile User Experience conference has been postoned till after the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with possible new dates being 28 - 29 July 2010. The conference was due to take place this month at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Updates and a revised programme schedule... read more 6 May 2010 US mobile operator gears up for 2010, AfricaEarlier this week, the US-based SMSStreamer.mobi brand by Cole Solutions began operating in the local market, with a promise to help make next year's FIFA World Cup a success by delivering quality 2010 content. It will soon launch a mobile service that is essentially the SMS version of social... read more 23 Oct 2009 Live tweeting from Mobile Web AfricaThe inaugural two-day Mobile Web Africa, for which Bizcommunity.com is a media partner, kicked off yesterday morning, Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at the Michaelangelo Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg. To follow live tweeting from various delegates on Twitter, click here and here.... read more 13 Oct 2009 Nokia World Day 2009 in Germany via webcastNokia is hosting Nokia World Day in Stuttgart, Germany, 2 - 3 September 2009. The event includes keynote speakers, interactive sessions, the Nokia World Experience lounge and open discussions to encourage the exchange of ideas in the mobile industry, which may be viewed live via webcasts. For more... read more 27 Aug 2009 Africa fastest growth of cell phonesAfrica has the fastest growth rate of mobile phone users in the world according to a survey conducted by the International Telecommunications Union. The UN agent says the growth is being aided by mobile phone banking which allows people without bank accounts to send money quickly and safely by SMS... read more 4 Mar 2009 Cellphone company launches BlackBerry in TanzaniaResearch In Motion (RIM), a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions, and Vodacom Tanzania, have announced that the BlackBerry solution is now available to Vodacom Tanzania subscribers throughout the country. The BlackBerry solution is designed to bring together innovative... read more 7 Nov 2008 ITNewsAfrica.com partners up with BlackBerryclick to enlargeITNewsAfrica.com and Blackberry are giving away the BlackBerry Curve 8310 smartphone, the smallest and lightest BlackBerry smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard. The publisher of ITNewAfrica.com, Abby Wakama, said the competition was the first phase in a growing relationship with... read more 10 Sep 2008 Take a numberWarid Telecom, which open its doors to the general public on Monday has received an overwhelming response from all Ugandans across the country as they flocked to service centres to pre-register their preferred numbers in a bid to join the Warid family. In total over 80,000 thousand potential... read more 18 Jan 2008 W880i is phone of the yearclick to enlargeSony Ericsson's W880i walkman handset has been named best phone of the year at the 2007 Nigerian Telecoms Awards in Lagos, hosted annually by Logica Telecom Awards Limited. Other nominees in this category included the Nokia E61i and the Motorola V3. The W880i sports a brushed... read more 31 Aug 2007 State sells share in Maroc TelecomMorocco's finance ministry has announced that the state has sold 4% of its shares in Maroc Telecom (Itissalatt Al Maghreb), while retaining a 30% stake. Vivendi Universal still holds the majority share of 51% in the telecoms company, which is listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange as well as the... read more 4 Jul 2007 Get connected via mobile broadbandNigeria's second national operator, Globacom, has awarded Alcatel-Lucent the contract to install a wireless network in selected Nigerian cities, including Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Benin and Ibadan. The network is to be based on UMTS/HSPA (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service/High Speed... read more 26 Apr 2007 Kenyan farmers connect to better pricesAfrica's small farmers often fall victim to local traders who dictate prices below market rates. But in rural Kenya farmers now have technology in hand that cuts out the middleman. Gretchen Wilson reports 25 Apr 2007 Cell One launches in NamibiaThe much-anticipated launch of Namibia's second mobile operator, Cell One, took place on Friday, 16 March 2007, with the opening of several shops in Windhoek. Cell One, which was granted a licence by the Namibian Communications Commission early last year, will be competing with cellphone operator... read more 19 Mar 2007 Identifying those missed callersCell C prepaid, postpaid and control chat subscribers are now able to access details of callers who did not leave voicemail messages while their phones were switched off, thanks to a recently introduced missed call notification feature. While the service requires a voicemail to be set up and calling... read more 22 Feb 2007 Launch of Virgin’s multicommunications groupTowards the end of last week, Richard Brandson launched Virgin Media, the new UK company formed from the merger of Virgin Mobile and cable TV group NTL:Telewest, writes Business Report. The new “multicommunications” group will “bundle television, on-demand video, broadband and fixed-line and... read more 12 Feb 2007 Online, cellphone gambling nearing legalityBusiness Day reports that online and cellphone gaming may finally become legal "if a draft amendment bill adopted by the cabinet last week is finally passed into law". For more, click here. 12 Dec 2006 Welcoming tones for everyonePreviously available to customers with Vodafone live! cellphones only, Vodacom's Welcome Tones are now available to all its customers (prepaid, contract and top up), irrespective of a specific make or model of cellphone. A Welcome Tone replaces the standard "ring-ring" tone that a caller hears... read more 4 Dec 2006 Motorola to improve Russian mobile operator networkMOSCOW, RUSSIA: Mobile Telesystems, one of the largest mobile operators in Russia and CIS, has awarded an equipment upgrade and services contract to Motorola to improve the quality, capacity and performance of its Moscow macro region network, MTS' largest geographic region. This contract will allow... read more 27 Nov 2006 Potential Vodacom strategic stake in iBurstiBurst confirmed yesterday, Monday, 13 November 2006, that Vodacom is in the process of finalising the acquisition of 10% of the wireless broadband provider. The potential strategic partnership has several positive ramifications for iBurst and its subscribers, including access to additional... read more 14 Nov 2006 No porting fees from Cell CCell C announced on Tuesday, 7 October 2006, that it will not be charging porting fees to customers wishing to move to its network when mobile number portability (MNP) is implemented on Friday, 10 November. As part of MNP, all network operators are required to pay an administration fee to the Number... read more 8 Nov 2006 Speedier mobile access to GmailIn recognition of the role mobile phones play as a "key driver for balancing online and offline worlds", Google recently released a freely downloadable Java application which delivers Gmail users the look and feel of Gmail through a fast, feature-rich interface that's optimised for mobile devices.... read more 3 Nov 2006 Personalised bulk SMS package releasedPattern Matched Technologies (PMT) recently announced the commercial availability of stand-alone application myTXT. "Like most bulk SMS products, myTXT enables users to easily send text messages over the GSM network to multiple recipients," says Andre du Toit, MD of PMT. "What differentiates myTXT... read more 30 Oct 2006 Cell C cuts weekend subscriber ratesIn order to keep Cell C top-of-mind before the introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) on 10 November 2006, the service provider announced last week that it has slashed its weekend prices by over 50% on all Cell C to Cell C calls. Postpaid and controlchat subscribers automatically qualify... read more 27 Oct 2006 The price of an sms...click to enlargeSince 24 October 2006, South African Internet users have been able to send unlimited free SMS messages from their PCs to mobile phones across all local cellular networks, courtesy of www.yosms.co.za. The catch? Each free SMS sent is backed by advertising sponsorship that engages... read more 25 Oct 2006 iBurst's 100 base station milestoneWireless broadband provider iBurst last week commissioned its 100th base station, in Boksburg, after its nationwide roll-out plan began in November 2004 with the commissioning of a base station in Sandton. iBurst plans to roll-out base stations at an average rate of two per week until it has covered... read more 24 Oct 2006 |
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