Celtel International, Africa's fastest growing mobile company, recently launched a 7 million USD state of the art Technical Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This new infrastructure will serve as a technical hub for not only the DRC but

The anniversary of the sale of MTN recharge cards at prices above the face value will soon arrive. In this report, Okechukwu Kanu looks at how this unusual market strategy will be celebrated.

International air tariff is set to crash further any moment from now as the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has signified its intention to allow other operators other than the national carrier, the Nigerian Telecom-munications Limited (NITEL) and the Second National

Ghana's only analogue mobile phone network, Kasapa, has recently launched a new promotion that allows their subscribers to make free phone calls on the KASAPA network.

Johannesburg - Africa's big three cellular operators are poised to gobble up local minnows in a buying spree that could win them most of the continent's booming market by 2010, industry experts say.

If you want a good idea of where mobile technology is going in Africa, consider this - today you are able to make a call on your cellphone from the top of Mt Kilimanjaro.

In its bid to ensure that Nigerians are introduced to the latest technology in web communication, an IT firm, Blue Interface, is introducing a mobile e-mail service called BlueMobile to the Nigerian market. This is to ensure fast and real

The recent launch of service by fixed wireless operator, Multi-Links, in Ibadan is adding a fresh breadth to the communication life of the students in the city. The students have taken a liking to Multi-links phones with the main attraction

Mobile Telecommunications Company Group (MTC), the largest GSM operator in the region, announced Sunday February 5th that it is bidding for the third GSM license in Egypt.

Nokia today announced that it has released a newversion of the N-Gage Arena launcher for the over 400,000 valuedN-Gage Arena members. The new version 2.5 includes new features andfunctionality, as well as updates to the existing services. N-GageArena members can

MTN has announced the launch of the new WOW WOW value bundle that provides pay as you go customers with a 37-50% discount on call charges.

Uganda Telecom has launched a new service that enables a user to accessa variety of data using the mobile phone.

Second National Operator, Globacom, is set to further enhance voice and data transmission for mobile and fixed telephone operations, as it commences transmission service on its fibre optic ring.

In this report Okechukwu Kanu examines the costs of making GSM calls and draws conclusions on when the prepaid subscriber will begin to benefit from falling costs When will call tariffs fall? If you had asked this question before 2005

International Telecommunication Union (ITU), world telecommunication regulators, has put the global number of mobile phones at 1.340 billion, this means that 21.91 per 100 inhabitants own mobile phones, as at August 2004.

A Lagos-based Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firm, Alfa2 International Limited, has introduced a back-up product for users of Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) subscribers, known as 'PhoneSaved' with world wide web (www) interface.

HAVE you ever wished you could change your cellphone network operator but did not because of the inconvenience of changing your number? By the end of the year, cellphone subscribers in SA will be able to demand customer service at

South African GSM cellular operator, Cell C says it delivered more than 9m SMS on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 2005, up from 5.5 million SMSs in 2004.

Nokia Cell Phone Warehouse realised an increase in sales during the festive season, according to its sales and marketing manager Kabo Tshephe. "This has given us an idea to offer more specials during the festive season and month ends" Tshepe

The new mobile phone codes of the companies Movicel and Unitel start operating this Sunday (16 January), in the ambit of the first phase of the National Numbering Plan (PNN), for mobile phone service providers.