ISSUE NO 481

Ghana’s NCA set to offer voice and data WiMAX licences but with conditions

Ghana’s regulator NCA is consulting on offering spectrum and a licence that will allow those who win them to offer both voice and data. But as you might imagine there’s a number of catches contained in the package. Russell Southwood looks at what’s on offer.
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TELECOMS

South Africa’s Mobile Market Saturated says MTN’s representative

The market for cellphone users had reached saturation point in SA, an MTN official said last week, in the first public admission that the years of endless growth are over.
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INTERNET

Tunisie Telecom launches Hannibal submarine Telecommunications Cable

Tunisie-Télécom has launched last on Friday, its own, 100% Tunisian, submarine fibre cable dubbed "Hannibal."
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COMPUTING

Home Affairs Technology to Improve Service Delivery in South Africa

An innovative new system aimed at speeding up the processing of identity documents (IDs), is currently being implemented at Home Affairs offices around the country.
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ON THE MONEY

Mauritius Telecom to raise USD50m from telecom listing

In his budget speech delivered yesterday, the Mauritian Finance Minister Ramakrishna Sithanen said the government hopes to raise MUR1.5 billion (USD50 million) from the listing of the nation’s largest telco, Mauritius Telecom (MT).
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WEB AND MOBILE DATA NEWS

FNB cellphone banking for Zambia

First National Bank (FNB) is taking advantage of the growth of cellphone banking across the continent and has introduced the service for its clients in Zambia.
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ISSUE 480

World Bank financing approved for Central African Backbone and completion date set for 2011

ISSUE 479

Liberalised South Africa starts to create market-opening mechanisms that allow cheaper access to fibre

ISSUE 478

Phase3 Telecoms to open Lagos-Accra terrestrial route in Q2, 2010 and set to go inland to landlocked countries

ISSUE 477

Mali’s school students prepare themselves for the arrival of OPLC’s laptops

ISSUE 476

Dropping the ties that bind – how Africa can help itself to get lower bandwidth prices

ISSUE 475

African universities will buy 60 Gb of bandwidth and set up a continental network

ISSUE 474

Africa’s Internet Exchange Points score well on lowering latency and local download speed but did not contribute to lowering of end-user costs, says new study

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Main One will land in five places in Africa and makes alliance with Tata for European connections

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Zambia soon to feel the double-effect of international fibre and liberalisation

ISSUE 471

African mobile ARPUs set to fall up to 2013 in most countries except in those with mobile data potential, says new report