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Starfish Mobile forms strategic partnership with Global Media Alliance

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:06:00 +0200

Starfish Mobile International, the largest independent integrated mobile content service provider in Africa has partnered with Global Media Alliance Ghana Ltd (GMA) in order to access the Ghana mobile market with ease. This strategic partnership will lead to the country's local offices being renamed Starfish Mobile Ghana Ltd.
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Mobile game now with added football community SMS feature

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:48:00 +0200

Starfish Mobile Nigeria has teamed up with Zain, a major mobile Telecommunications company, to launch the latest football community mobile news alert feature based on the top European teams.
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Celtel Tanzania has new MD

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:51:00 +0200

The former Chief Commercial Officer, Celtel Nigeria, Michael Foley, has been named the new Managing Director of Celtel Tanzania.
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Safaricom taps Equity Bank for staff share loans

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:17:00 +0200

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%.
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Malawi hosts international telecommunications workshop

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:47:00 +0200

Malawi has hosted a telecommunication services workshop at its lakeshore district in Mangochi with calls to various rival telecommunications operators to share services so that consumers can access them at affordable charges.
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Starfish launches new mobile services with Vodacom Tanzania

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:57:00 +0200

Vodacom Tanzania has appointed Starfish Mobile East Africa, a division of Starfish Mobile International, as its partner content aggregator to provide and manage digital content services to Vodacom customers. The deal, which will endure for two years, was concluded after a thorough and lengthy tender process.
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Mobile phone users to benefit from lower tariffs

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:35:00 +0200

The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has announced that it will soon lower its mobile phone interconnection charges from the existing 8 US cents to 7 US cents with effect from 1 January 2008.
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African nations agree to $1 billion Indian satellite project

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:04:00 +0200

A critical mass of countries are signing on to a plan for India to invest $1 billion in the Pan-African e-Network satellite project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union aimed at developing the region's information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure.
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Africans access borderless mobile phone services

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:15:00 +0200

More than 400 million people in twelve African countries can now access borderless mobile phone services opened by Kenyan mobile telecommunications company Celtel International.
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Mobile phones benefit fishing community

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:03:00 +0200

A study conducted by two students from Upsalla University, Sweden, in collaboration with the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), has concluded that the use of mobile phones has improved the livelihood of the Tanzanian fishermen who had hitherto no reliable means of communication.
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