By Michael Malakata , Computerworld Zambia 20 Dec, 2009
The decision by Zambia and Uganda to regulate interconnection fees shows that Africa is adopting an international practice of fixed rates in order to protect consumers from exploitation by mobile service providers. read more »
Google isn't talking publicly about reported plans to sell a powerful Android-based smartphone called the Nexus One directly to consumers next year, but the idea is already raising eyebrows with analysts. read more »
Comcast and General Electric announced a $37 billion joint venture today that combines Comcast's cable programming and online content with NBC Universal's varied businesses, including broadcasting, online content and cable programming. read more »
By Michael Malakata , Computerworld Zambia 30 Nov, 2009
The battle for supremacy in the African mobile market has moved up a notch with the launch of Millicom International Cellular, a multinational telecom company, in East Africa. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 23 Nov, 2009
African mobile service operators are bundling and adding services as well as investing in solar-powered phones as ways to increase their average revenue per user (ARPU) in light of decreased profits. read more »
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau 27 Oct, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled US$3.4 billion in grants to update the nation's electrical grid, but the benefits could reach to the broadband sector as well, one community broadband adviser said. read more »
By Michael Malakata , Computerworld Zambia 30 Sep, 2009
Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Kenya are putting pressure on mobile service providers to cut high interconnection charges in order to make communication between networks cheaper. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 30 Sep, 2009
Wednesday's collapse of the on-again, off-again, US$23 billion deal between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel -- which occurred after the complex proposal attracted much intervention from political leaders and unions -- had as much to do with matters of national pride and politics as anything else. read more »
By Olusegun Abolaji Ogundeji , Computerworld West Africa 30 Sep, 2009
The launch of Splash, a text-message-based mobile money service, makes Sierra Leone the latest African country to deploy a mobile payment system. read more »
All was well meant when Communications and Transport Minister Dora Siliya challenged African Communications Experts at a workshop on sustainable rural telecenters in Lusaka last week to come up with strategies that their governments will use to roll out ICT to rural areas. read more »
