Africa Telecom articles from May 2001

Africa Telecom archives from May 2001

Algeria Hopes to Improve Telecommunications By 2010.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Algeria's Posts and Telecommunications Minister, Mohamed Meghlaoui, said that the government hopes the country will turn into an "emerging state" in the communications sector by the year 2010. Speaking during an exhibition in Algiers, Meghlaoui...

UUNet Delivers Improved Internet Service through its Satellite Installation.(WorldCom Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... UUNet Botswana, a WorldCom company, is set to increase the speed, quality, and service of Internet connectivity into Botswana, following the installation of its new satellite dish. Recently, the Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA)...

Orascom's Year Net Slips on Expansion Costs.(Orascom Telecom)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Orascom Telecom (OT), a Cairo-based mobile phone operator, recently announced a slight decline in net profit for calendar year 2000, after a year of aggressive expansion in the Middle East and Africa. The firm more than doubled its total...

Telecom Egypt Seeks Strategic Investor.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Telecom Egypt hopes to find a strategic investor to buy between 20 and 34 percent of the stateowned firm within half a year, investor relations manager, Hatim el-Gammal, said. "We hope to find a strategic investor within six months,"...

Econet Still in Race for Telkom Kenya.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... A consortium led by Zimbabwe's Econet Wireless said it was maintaining its bid for a 49 percent stake in Telkom Kenya. The Mount Kenya Communication Consortium (MKC) was the highest bidder for the stake when it was first advertised last...

Telkom Launches Fiber Optic Project.(Telkom Kenya)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Telkom Kenya has launched a KES744 million fiber optic network for Nairobi. The project is meant to reduce congestion on the national telephone network, especially in the city. The network will initially serve Milimani, Westlands,...

Kenya Gets First Swahili E-Mail Service.(MailAfrica.net)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... MailAfrica.net, a new African portal has been launched by ISP Kenya. MailAfrica.net will offer Kiswahili e-mail services for the first time. The new service is expected to result in widespread use of the Internet in Kenya's rural areas,...

UTStarcom Deploys Nationwide xDSL Data Access Network for Mauritius Telecom.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... UTStarcom Inc., a provider of wireless and wireline telecommunications access equipment, announced that the company has successfully completed the deployment and gained customer acceptance of its AN-2000 broadband access network equipment which...

Maroc Telecom Acquires Stake in Maurite.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Morocco's state controlled, Maroc Telecom, finalized its $48 million acquisition of a 54 percent stake in Mauritania's telecoms operator, Mauritel. "The agreements we have signed constitute a watershed in relations between the two...

UUNet Namibia Launches Hosting Service.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... UUNet Namibia launched its co-located hosting facility and product range, UUhost, which] gives its customers access to a centrally located secure outsourced facility within UUNet Namibia] where they will be able to house their servers. The...

Nigeria Seeks Foreign Buyer and Listing for Nitel.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Nigeria is planning a foreign listing for state-run phone company, Nitel, as part of the long-awaited plans for its privatization. Nitel was scheduled for privatization in March but this has been postponed until September. President...

Cyber Digital Inc. to Build a $35 Million Digital Wireless Telephone Network.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Cyber Digital Inc., a manufacturer and software developer of fixed wireless digital central office telephone exchanges, announced that it has received the approval for its proposals to build digital wireless telephone networks in five states of...

Nitel Takes Lead in Nigerian GSM Race.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Nitel, Nigeria's tottering state-run telephone company, may emerge as the unlikely leader in the race to bring the first GSM mobile phones to the country's hungry market. Nitel said it will introduce GSM service this month, beating its two...

Africa Online to Improve Internet Access.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Africa Online, a Kenya-based company, announced that it is revamping its public Internet access product, dubbed E-Touch, to increase benefits for end-users and franchise partners. Corporate head of E-Touch, Cyril Moyo, said the new facility...

SONATEL Makes 42.5 Billion FCFA Profit.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Senegalese National Telecom Company (SONATEL), with a majority shareholding by France-Telecom, recorded a net profit of 42.5 billion francs cfa (FCFA) in 2000, up 4.2 percent from the previous year. The performance was due to a growth in...

Internet Cafe Opens in Mogadishu.(Somali Technologies)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The first Internet cafe opened its doors in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital on April 14, 2001. Da'ud Muhammad Mahmud of Somali Technologies, told IRIN that the firm had opened the cafe near the Olympic hotel, close to the Bakaara, Mogadishu's main...

SOUTH AFRICA.(LM Ericsson Telephone Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Ericsson Invests R100 Million in South Africa Ericsson has invested over R100 million in new corporate headquarters in the Johannesburg IT hub, Woodmead. The new corporate headquarters will cover 10,000 square meters and house the...

Applied Innovation to Partner with Telkom SA.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Applied Innovation Inc. (AI) said that it has been chosen by Telkom SA, the sole fixed line operator in South Africa, to assist with South Africa's rapid telecommunications network expansion. AI will supply Telkom SA with its core AIswitch and...

Vodacom World Online Signs Contract with Convergys.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Convergys Corp., a provider of integrated billing and customer care services, announced it has signed a two-year billing services contract with Vodacom World Online South Africa to implement Convergys' Catalys IP billing solution. Vodacom...

Infosat and VuePoint Partner to Bring E-Learning to South Africa.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... VuePoint, a comprehensive e-learning company with a business-savvy approach, and Infosat, a value-added service provider specializing in the distribution of data via satellite and high-end Web developments, are partnering to bring VuePoint's...

Prism Forms SMS Deal with Sonera SmartTrust.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... South Africa's Prism Holdings said it would supply technology to Finland's Sonera SmartTrust to allow GSM mobile operators using SmartTrust software to process short text messages faster. Prism said it would provide Prism's Airtrax short...

BST and Solutus to Deliver Enterprise E-Business Solutions to the South African Market.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... BST, a professional services automation (PSA) provider of e-business software solutions, and Solutus, a provider of strategic information technology solutions, announced a strategic European partnership to deliver enterprise e-business...

Government Sells SUDATEL Shares for US$10 Million.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Sudanese government has sold 597,014 of its shares in the Sudanese Telecommunications company (SUDATEL) as part of its policy to put business in private hands. The Financial Investment Bank brokered the deal and sold the shares for US...

Marconi Lands Deal to Install ATM.(Marconi Communications)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... After other big exploits in the Middle East including the Dubai Marina and Emirates Tower hotel projects, Marconi announced it has won the bid to install a flagship asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) telecommunication backbone in Tunisia. It...

GSM Phone Tender Put Off.(Tunisian Telecommunications Ministry)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Tunisian Telecommunications Ministry has postponed the tender for the sale of a second GSM phone license to May 19, a senior official said. "The. Ministry decided to put off the closing date until May 19, 2001, in response to demands...

Telecom Licensing Fees Increased.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Zimbabwe is increasing license fees for telecom providers. Fixed telephone network operators must now pay $320 million in license fees, while mobile operators will pay $100 million in fees and ISPs will pay $2 million. All license fees...

Verestar Expands Coverage and Capacity over Indian Ocean Region.(Verestar Inc., integrated satellite and fiber network access solutions)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Verestar Inc., a provider of integrated satellite and fiber network access solutions worldwide, announced that it has successfully installed a new 16.4 meter C-band antenna, Leuk-5, at its satellite network access point (SNAP) in Leuk,...

Internet VIP Inc. Announces the Commencement of Quotation on the NASD OTC BB.(finance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Internet VIP Inc. announced the commencement of quotation on the NASD OTC BB under the symbol IVIP. The core business of IVIP is selling international long-distance telephone and telecommunication services using voice over Internet protocol...

Cirilium Deploys Voice over Internet Protocol Technology in GNT Network.(Cirilium Corp. contracts Global Network Telephone)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Cirilium Corp., a VoIP technology provider originally founded by Hypercom Corp. and InterTel Inc., announced that Global Network Telephone (GNT) has selected Cirilium technology for several connections within its international VoIP network. ...

WindWire Adds allAfrica.com to its Wireless Advertising Network.(online services)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... WindWire, a provider of wireless advertising and marketing solutions, announced that allAfrica Global Media, a multimedia content service provider and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide, has joined its...

Vialog Chosen by AfricaToday.com as Exclusive Group Communications Partner.(Vialog Corporation, joint strategic alliance)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Vialog Corp., a provider of audio, video, and Web conferencing services, announced a global strategic alliance with AfricaToday.com, an integrated Internet-based company that provides an online platform for Africa-based and focused companies to...

o2wireless Solutions and Skye Advanced Technologies Enter Global Cooperative Agreement.(providing services to the wireless telecommunications industry)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... o2wireless Solutions Inc., a provider of integrated services to the global wireless telecom industry, announced a global cooperative agreement with Skye Advanced Technologies (Pty) Ltd., an international consulting company specializing in...

TCIL and MTNL to Jointly Bid on Comtel Project and Malawi Telecom Privatization.(Telecommunications Consultant India Limited, Mahanager Telephone Nigam Limited)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Telecommunications Consultant India Ltd. (TCIL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) announced that they would be jointly bidding for two major sub-Saharan Africa projects. The first is for a 30 percent interest in a fiber optic cable...

East African Community Announces Regional Digital Transmission Project.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... At a recent African Telecommunications Union (ATU) workshop, the East African Community (EAC) announced that it will launch a $60 million digital transmission project that will use high technology to meet increasing telecommunications demand in...