Telecoms, Rates, Offers and Coverage

- In Nigeria, Globacom has announced the repackaging of its personalised ring back tune service.

- Mobile operator, Movicel has expanded its coverage to the province of Kwanza Sul, West of Luanda in Angola.

- Neotel, the SNO in South Africa said that a commercial consumer service launch is set for early 2008, and that it is well aware of what consumers want.

- Government has decided to abolish import duty and import VAT on all mobile phones imported into the country and introduced a more effective means of taxing mobile phone usage. Consequently, Government proposes to impose a specific excise duty per minute of airtime use.