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  • Egypt and Algeria Bring Soccer War to Sudan 18 Nov 2009 18:16 GMT
    ... Egypt and Algeria Bring Soccer War to Sudan Egyptian soccer ... in next summer's World Cup in South Africa, that at least 15,000 police officers have ... young brother and showing pictures on his cell phone he says his brother died and that ...

  • Mobile phone industry rings up gains 18 Nov 2009 14:37 GMT
    ... revenue gains. The importance of having a mobile phone and a low level of competition has ... voice,” says Mr Faraidooni. Driven by multimedia-rich smartphone devices, mobile data now accounts for about ... actively looking for investment opportunities in Northern Africa and India, he says. Though such investments ...

  • Telkom to offer mobile phone services from 2010 24 Nov 2009 09:49 GMT
    ... for the fourth mobile operator in South Africa," Telkom’s CEO, Reuben September, said in conference ... its stake in Vodacom, South Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator and Telkom’s main earnings driver. The ...

  • Telkom lines up mobile phone venture  25 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
    ... R6billion over five years to launch a mobile phone business to help offset falling profit. “To ... said the biggest fixed-line phone operator in Africa saw opportunities in the mobile data market ...

  • IMG and ONYX Sign License Agreement to Develop FIGC-Branded Mobile Phone Handsets 25 Nov 2009 11:51 GMT
    ... ONYX Sign License Agreement to Develop FIGC-Branded Mobile Phone Handsets )--Onyx, the premium and luxury handset ... next year's FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Additionally, a top of the line Limited ...

  • New mobile phone firm launches today 19 Nov 2009 21:53 GMT
    ... Kampala Smiles Communications Uganda Limited, the seventh telecommunications company ... General Manager, Mr Carrington Philip, the South African firm with the code 02 targets low ... he said. The company also operates in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...

  • China's phone firms help Africa go mobile 17 Nov 2009 10:30 GMT
    ... China's phone firms help Africa go mobile By Peter J Brown The ... needed - despite a worldwide surge in cell phone usage, fewer than three out of every ...

  • Mobile phones tantlize and trouble Africa 18 Nov 2009 14:52 GMT
    ... million, but a quarter is in South Africa," says Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese businessman who ... helping people to keep in touch, the cell phone has become an essential business tool, says ... small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa, the mobile phone has overtaken the computer as the most ...

  • Football frictions strain Algeria-Egypt ties 25 Nov 2009 02:55 GMT
    ... in Sudan are causing diplomatic stress between Algeria and Egypt. By Mouna Sadek for Magharebia in Algiers ... on November 15th ransacked the offices of mobile phone firm Djezzy Orascom, seen as a ...

  • Mobile phones tantalize and trouble Africa 19 Nov 2009 00:14 GMT
    ... million, but a quarter is in South Africa," says Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese businessman who ... helping people to keep in touch, the cell phone has become an essential business tool, says ... small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa, the mobile phone has overtaken the computer as the most ...

  • Egyptian soccer fans riot against Algeria 20 Nov 2009 16:23 GMT
    ... Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted ... spot in the 2010 Cup in South Africa. An Egyptian man talking on his mobile phone walks past a heavy presence of riot-police ...

  • Mubarak vows not to tolerate attacks on Egyptians 21 Nov 2009 13:15 GMT
    ... An Egyptian man talking on his mobile phone walks past a heavy presence of riot-police ... reach next year's World Cup in South Africa. The trouble began before the first match ...

  • Egypt's media stoked soccer fan anger with Algeria 22 Nov 2009 19:47 GMT
    ... - Sudanese riot police stand guard near Egyptian waving Egyptian flags, ahead of their World ... World Cup qualifying playoff soccer match against Algeria at the Marrikh Stadium in Khartoum, Sudan, ... - An Egyptian man talking on his mobile phone walks past a heavy presence of ...

  • Egyptian fans riot against Algeria 21 Nov 2009 00:49 GMT
    ... station. Some fans, unable to reach the Algerians, pelted the nearby Indian Embassy with stones. ... rare and heavily suppressed by security forces, Egypt's soccer protests were an unusual show of ... also been drumming up fury, airing amateur mobile phone videos of what appear to be ...

  • Research and Markets: Nigeria's Mobile Market Has Grown To 16 Million Subscribers In Four Years But Still Only Covers 12.3% Of The Population Of About 130 Million 24 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... The report offers an analysis of the Nigerian mobile handsets market. It looks specifically at ... risk market. As with technologies elsewhere in Africa, the growth of mobiles appears in large ... in their world. The main barriers to mobile phone growth amongst non-users have been identified as ...

  • Research and Markets: Nigeria's Mobile Market Has Grown To 16 Million Subscribers In Four Years But Still Only Covers 12.3% Of The Population Of About 130 Million (BIZ) 24 Nov 2009 16:53 GMT
    ... The report offers an analysis of the Nigerian mobile handsets market. It looks specifically at ... risk market. As with technologies elsewhere in Africa, the growth of mobiles appears in large ... in their world. The main barriers to mobile phone growth amongst non-users have been identified as ...

  • Research and Markets: Nigeria's Mobile Market Has Grown To 16 Million Subscribers In Four Years But Still Only Covers 12 24 Nov 2009 17:11 GMT
    ... The report offers an analysis of the Nigerian mobile handsets market. It looks specifically at ... risk market. As with technologies elsewhere in Africa, the growth of mobiles appears in large ... in their world. The main barriers to mobile phone growth amongst non-users have been identified as ...

  • Winners and Losers in Africa 23 Nov 2009 11:36 GMT
    ... in Namibia this week, like most other African elections, is a foregone conclusion. Opposition parties ... you travel anywhere in Africa, the best cellphone service is provided in countries where there is ... there is lively competition among several private mobile phone companies. The worst is in countries where a ...

  • Globalive to keep 800 of its cellphone division employees on payroll 19 Nov 2009 00:54 GMT
    ... Globalive to keep 800 of its cellphone division employees on payroll MONTREAL - Globalive ... CRTC prevented Globalive from launching its Wind Mobile phone service this month, ruling the company isn't Canadian-owned ... one-third equity stake in the company, while Egyptian telecom Orascom owns 65.1 per cent of ...

  • Telkom to offer cellphone services in 2010 24 Nov 2009 10:36 GMT
    ... Joburg - South Africa's fixed-line phone group Telkom will begin offering mobile phone services from 2010 as it launches a new mobile business to offset falling profit ...

  • Nigeria cautious on EU free trade deal 18 Nov 2009 16:30 GMT
    ... AFP/File – Vendors of mobile phone cards stand behind their stands at a market in Lagos. Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa's ... , sub-Saharan Africa's second largest economy, will not sign until it is sure ...

  • Libya to Sell Stakes in State Owned Mobile Networks 23 Nov 2009 14:03 GMT
    ... >> >> This Article Libya to Sell Stakes in State Owned Mobile ... sell small stakes in the country's two mobile phone networks as part of a wider plan ... one of the most active in North Africa and the Arab region," Seleem Naas, chairman ...

  • Nigeria mobile telecoms operator, MTN, sacks 65 20 Nov 2009 14:41 GMT
    ... Telecoms business - One of Nigeria's leading mobile telecommunications company, MTN, has sacked ... Nigeria is part of the MTN Group, Africa's leading cellular telecommunicat ions company. Since launching ... Territory, Abuja. Earlier in the year, another mobile phone operator in Nigeria, Zain, also sacked a ...

  • Tunisia keen to promote cooperation, partnership in IT field - PM 24 Nov 2009 19:16 GMT
    ... HAMMAMET, Tunisia, Nov 24 (KUNA) -- Tunisia is keen ... of service trade volume, with 4.5 billion mobile phone users and 1.7 billion internet users involved ... with special attention to the Mediterranean area, Africa and developing countries. About 1,500 participants from ...

  • Obama in China, China in Africa 23 Nov 2009 05:53 GMT
    ... (NNPA) — President Obama has taken his populist style to ... the world), and actually has the most cell phone subscribers in the world. The growing middle ... from Egypt, where a two-day forum on China-Africa Cooperation was held. China has agreed to ...


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