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Kenya: Residential broadband service boosts company sales

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:02:00 +0200

AccessKenya Group, Kenya's first publicly-listed ICT company has announced that it has achieved its year-end customer target numbers nearly two months ahead of schedule. It has 3000 customers now signed up to its residential broadband service, Access@Home, and over 3100 customers contracted for its corporate broadband service, Broadband Max.
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FIFA World Cup trophy arrives in Kenya

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:42:00 +0200

NAIROBI: The Coca-Cola and FIFA World Cup Trophy has arrived in Kenya, where it was received by President Mwai Kibaki in the capital, Nairobi.
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Kenya: Westlands launch new road safety initiative

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:24:00 +0200

Celebrities and opinion leaders from various quarters of Kenyan society and diplomatic circles will attend the launch of Tame-A-Black Spot (TABS) road safety campaign, along Waiyaki Way/Museum Hill Roundabout, in Westlands, Kenya in December 2009.
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KDN subscribers enjoy more bandwidth

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:41:00 +0200

Kenya Data Networks have quadrupled its bandwidth offering for all its existing and new clients. This offer went into effect on Wednesday, 21 October 2009. Clients previously receiving 1Mbps now enjoy 4Mbps and only pay for 1Mbps and the other 3Mbps are offered free of charge.
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Refugees take on digital jobs

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:37:00 +0200

Refugees living at the world's largest makeshift camp in Kenya are being offered the opportunity to earn up to two US dollars an hour by participating in a digital pilot project.
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Mobile Internet revolution targets Africa's rural areas

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:29:00 +0200

After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas.
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Alvarion, Safaricom to deploy nationwide WiMAX network in Kenya

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:55:00 +0200

Alvarion has announced its selection by Kenyan mobile services provider Safaricom for a three-year turnkey WiMAX project to deploy high-speed broadband services throughout Kenya. Using Alvarion's BreezeMAX solution at 3.5 GHz frequency band, the WiMAX network will enable wireless broadband for residential and corporate users, rural areas, municipalities, banks, schools and universities.
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Finlay shuts down Mara Mara factory

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:42:00 +0200

James Finlay (Kenya), a local tea extracts manufacturing firm, has announced the commencement of a phased shutting down of its Mara Mara Tea Extracts factory located in Kericho, Rift Valley. Finlay's sales volumes have been affected by the economic downturn and increasing competition from lower cost production centres.
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Joint ICT project launched for education in Kenya

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:54:00 +0200

NAIROBI: Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, the government of Kenya and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a joint partnership to improve education in Kenya. Launched in collaboration with Kenya's Ministry of Education, the Accelerating 21st Century Education (ACE) project aims to improve the quality of primary and secondary education through the effective use of information and communications technology (ICT).
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Altech increases stake in KDN

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:50:00 +0200

Allied Technologies (Altech) earlier this week announced that it would increase its economic stake in Kenya Data Networks (KDN) from 51% to 60.8% by investing a further USD39.5 million into the company. The capital injection will be used to roll out the KDN fibre-optic network.
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