Mobile communications technology

I came across Odzangba Kafui Dake’s Blog, this afternoon. He is a Ghanaian blogger who is also a student in one of Ghana’s higher institutions of learning. From what I can glean from his blog, he is a Linux fan too.
The blogger is not happy with Mobile2i’s Terms of Service, and is vehemently expressing his [...]

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Well, the boistreous wave of third generation mobile technology is sweeping across Nigeria gradually. Celtel Nigeria has now launched its 3G service at a ceremony in Abuja last week.
It’s still in a test mode and the launch was a demo for members of the National Assembly, officials of the NCC and some stakeholders in the [...]

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I was priviledged to have activated Areeba’s GPRS, way back in December 2004. I did a review, about the experience, on Mobile Africa: Spacefon Areeba’s GPRS. A preview. The cellular network was then branded “Spacefon Areeba”.
Areeba Ghana started billing for the service, 17 months later. I did not activate the service when the billing began, [...]

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Cynicism is not a part of me as I always allow room, give issues the benefit of the doubt, before forming a perception.
One of the latest trends by cellular operators in Nigeria is offer lottery-like offers for subscribers, and also trying to woe new subscribers to their network. There is nothing wrong with offering promos [...]

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Nigerian telecom subscribers are satisfied with the telecom services, in Nigeria. This is according to a recent market survey by Contact Solutions, a renown provider of Customer Management Services (CMS) Solutions in Nigeria. See BusinessDay’s report.
Vmobile, Glo Mobile, MTEL (GSM arm of NITEL), MTN Nigeria, Multilinks, NITEL and Reltel were the telecom networks that were [...]

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I attended the official launch of Iburst in Ghana, a few minutes ago. I’m blogging about this event from the premises of busyinternet here in Accra, where it was launched.
Would be writing about this on Mobile Africa, later today and of course, I’d update this blog post with a link to the story.
Ok: My report [...]

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Telecom giant MTN is known across the continent as a big/smart player in the mobile telecommunications industry. They are very innovative and always at the front edge of introducing the latest technologies and value-added-services.
MTN introduced Caller Ring Back Tone (CRBT) in South Africa, and branded it “MTN CallerTunez”. The service basically allows your callers to [...]

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