Africa Telecom articles from October 2001

Africa Telecom archives from October 2001

Mobile Telephone Subscribers per 100 Inhabitants in Selected Countries in Africa and the Middle East, 2000.(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Mobile Telephone Subscribers per 100 Inhabitants in Selected Countries in Africa and the Middle East, 2000 Israel 70.2 South Africa 12 Egypt 2 Tanzania 0.5 Kenya 0.1 Nigeria 0.03 ...

Nigeria's Nitel Rolls Out GSM Network.(Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. (Nitel), launched Nigeria's third GSM digital cellular phone network with an initial 5,000 lines and a pledge to connect 120,000 lines by December, 2001. "We have just launched the network," Nitel spokesman...

ComoreTel Selects teleSys' MACH7-iSCP for their New Global269 International TollFree Service.(teleSys Software)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... teleSys Software announced that ComoreTel has selected its MACH7-iSCP (IP enabled service control point) platform for their Global269 toll-free service. The MACH7-iSCP platform supports network-based applications that require interacting with...

Paconet Licensed to Operate in DRC.(Pan African Communication Network Ltd., Democratic Republic of Congo)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Pan African Communication Network Limited (Paconet) has been granted licences to offer voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services, operate international VSAT gateways and roll out wireless local loop networks in the Democratic Republic of...

MobiNil Third Quarter Profit and Subscriber Growth Down.(Egyptian Company for Mobile Services)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2001... MobiNil, a mobile phone operator posted a decline in third-quarter net profit to 40.5 million Egyptian pounds (US$9.5 million), after a foreign exchange charge of 50 million pounds following devaluation of the Egyptian currency in August, 2001,...

Guinea-Bissau Tenders Mobile License.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Guinea-Bissau has launched an international tender for a mobile phone license. Infrastructure Minister Carlitos Barai said the license would be for 10 years. The phones would operate in a 900mHz band with 24 channels. Guinea-Bissau has...

Safaricom Launches Mobile Top Up Service.(payment program offered in conjunction with Standard Bank, Kenya)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Safaricom, a mobile phone company has launched a new system of buying air-time. The new service, a venture between the company and Standard Bank, will enable pre-paid subscribers who operate accounts with the bank to top up their credit through...

KenCell Subscribers Exceed 220,000.(KenCell Communications Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... KenCell Communications Limited, a mobile phone provider, announced that its subscriber base has exceeded 220,000. The firm has also expanded its network to the Mt. Kenya region. The network extension, which closely follows expansions to Bungoma...

Ericsson Launches Mobile Portal Venture.(Ericsson Maroc)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Ericsson Maroc, a unit of Ericsson Group, and Morocco's Finance.Com will launch the first mobile portal for financial transactions in Morocco early next year. Finance.Com is a subsidiary of BMCE Bank. The portal, which will be operational by...

Telenor Launches Internet Satellite Link.(Telenor A.S.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Nortis, a branch of Norway's Telenor, has launched high-speed data transmission via satellite in Morocco, which it intends to expand across North Africa. Dubbed Internet Silver, the service is aimed at local and foreign firms in Morocco. The...

Nigeria to Get 300,000 GSM Lines.(global system of mobile communication)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Nigeria will get over 300,000 global system of mobile communications (GSM) lines since each of the three operators are required to roll out a minimum of 100,000 lines within the first year of operations, Communications Minister, Dr. Bello...

Cyber Digital Forms Partnership with Chinon Communications.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Cyber Digital Inc., a manufacturer and software developer of wireless and landline digital voice and Internet systems, announced a partnership with Chinon Communications (Nigeria) Ltd. to expedite the delivery of contracts in the sum of $21...

Sonatel Connected to ITXC.net.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... ITXC Corp and Sonatel announced that Sonatel is now completing calls in Senegal that began on ITXC.net. ITXC is the largest global carrier based in the US dedicated exclusively to carrying voice calls on behalf of other carriers. Sonatel is the...

Dial-Thru International Signs Agreement with Telkom SA.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Dial-Thru International Corp. announced the signing of an agreement with Telkom SA Limited (Telkom SA) to jointly provide telecommunications services between South Africa and the United States. The international backbone will consist of fiber...

Parliament to Redraft Telecoms Bill.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The South African parliament began redrafting a crucial telecommunications bill that will dismantle the state's telephone monopoly and lay the basis for privatization. This bill would be enacted by the end of October in line with the...

CNA Goes Cyber with Africa Online.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Africa Online, a Kenyan ISP, has launched a trial phase of Internet cafes through a joint venture with CNA. The concept is branded as AfricaOnline@CNA. The joint venture between the ISP and stationery retailer CNA saw the first pilot...

M-Cell's Sale Delayed.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The South African government has delayed the sale of a 20 percent stake in M-Cell at least until next year and probably until the second quarter of 2002. The decision was based mainly on the gloomy outlook for telecommunications and the low...

MTN and Vodacom to Charge by the Second.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... MTN and Vodacom will increase the rates on some of their packages. This will happen when their annual increases come into effect. Most of the increases are small and both operators are introducing new concepts in apparent anticipation of Cell...

Telkom and ICASA Slam Bill.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Telkom and ICASA have criticized the draft legislation to introduce competition from May next year, saying it could undermine investment. Telkom and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) have submitted proposals for...

2Otwenty Internet Banking Service Goes Online.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Fincentric Corporation, a global provider of web-enabled financial services software, announced that 2Otwenty Financial Services completed implementation and went online on July 21, 2001 using Fincentric's i Wealthview Banking software....

Telkom SA Selects Clarent for Pan-African Clearinghouse.(Clarent Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Clarent Corp., a provider of voice solutions for next generation networks, announced a broad-reaching agreement with Telkom South Africa. The agreement includes the establishment of a Clarent-based clearinghouse for Africa. "In a market...

Borland and Redknee to Enable Advanced Applications for Mobile Networks.
October 1, 2001... Borland Software Corporation, a provider in e-business platform solutions, announced that Redknee Inc, a provider of mobile applications platforms for 2G+ and 3G mobile networks, has signed an OEM value-added reseller agreement with Borland....

New Wireless Offering from 3Com Targets Multi-Building Networks.
October 1, 2001... 3Com SA has announced an 11 Mbps wireless building-to-building bridge targeted at multi-building network applications in environments such as education, healthcare, airport precincts and construction. It is said to provide an easy-to-use...

MTN Swaziland Awards $1.3 Million Deal to Protek.
October 1, 2001... MTN, a GSM operator in Swaziland, has chosen Protek to provide a fully convergent customer care and billing system to help support its growing customer base. After winning an exclusive 10-year license and launching operations in November 1998,...

Paconet Launches Service.
October 1, 2001... Pan African Communication Network Limited (Paconet) has officially launched its data transmission service in Tanzania. The service is operated by its subsidiary company, Paconet Tanzania. Paconet Tanzania has installed a land earth station...

Tunisia to Relaunch Abandoned GSM License Tender.
October 1, 2001... Tunisia said it would restart abandoned attempts to tender a second GSM mobile phone license before the end of the year. The Telecommunications Ministry said in July, it had dropped the tender because it was not satisfied with the $381 million...

Uganda Telecom to Implement Global269 International Toll-free Dialing.
October 1, 2001... ComoreTel, an international telecommunications provider announced that Uganda is to implement Global269--Toll-Free worldwide freephone dialing. Global269--Toll-Free is a unique worldwide service that will provide freephone access from countries...

African Cell Phones to Quadruple in Five Years.
October 1, 2001... The number of mobile phone subscribers in Africa will more than quadruple in the next five years, but with huge regional differences. Some 100 million people on the continent will own a cell phone by 2006, up from 22 million by the middle of...

Africa Still Behind in Internet Development.
October 1, 2001... A new report shows that Africa is continuing to lose ground to the rest of the world in terms of Internet infrastructure. According to Packet Geography 2002, a report by the US-based TeleGeography, international Internet bandwidth from Africa...

African Telecoms to be Affected by US Attacks.
October 1, 2001... The African telecommunications market is likely to become a victim of the terrorist attacks that took place in the US on September 11, as investors scale back their spending for fear of a recession. The attacks have increased the odds that the...

Millicom International Cellular S.A. Third Quarter Subscribers Increases.
October 1, 2001... Millicom International Cellular S.A. (MIC), a global telecommunications investor, announced that in the third quarter of 2001 its worldwide operations added 190,792 net new cellular subscribers or 139,395 subscribers on a proportional basis....