BROWSING: africa

Ericsson | July 13, 2011 | Press Release Globacom, Africa's fastest growing telecommunications company, has announced plans to replace its legacy charging platform with Ericsson’s (NASDAQ: ERIC) market-leading Charging System. This will allow Globacom to have flexible pricing and discounting plans, and offer rich features to...

Economic Times | June 15, 2011 | Deepali Gupta MUMBAI: After exiting telecom businesses in India, the Essar Group is following suit in Africa. The telecom service operations it acquired from Warid Telecom in Uganda and Congo are being returned and the group is looking...

Ecobank | June 6, 2011 | Press Release Ecobank Transnational Incorporated ("Ecobank"), the leading pan-African banking group, and Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"), a leading global telecommunications company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to promote mobile banking services across Africa. Under the terms of the MOU,...

Tech 24 | April 21, 2011 | Eric Olander With almost 700 million users, Facebook would have the world's third largest population if it was a country. Now the social networking site is heading south to find even more “friends”. This week on ‘Tech 24’,...

Tech 24 | April 21, 2011 | Eric Olander With almost 700 million users, Facebook would have the world's third largest population if it was a country. Now the social networking site is heading south to find even more “friends”. This week on ‘Tech 24’,...

NEW DELHI: Micromax, Lava, Karbonn, Spice, Maxx , Olive and Zen have got a new caller tune-waka waka eh ehae...this time for Africa. After giving multinational majors such as Nokia a run for its money in India, and cornering one-fifth of the handset market...

It seems like only recently the focus shifted from our obsession with Angry Birds for mobile, to the idea of mobile for the social good. Day three of CTIA focused on how wireless technology, particularly mobile social media and overall coverage, can change the...

Another day another mobile web report, and this time it’s from ABI Research claiming that 60% of phones will be Internet enabled by 2015.