Mobile communications technology

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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iBurst, a mobile broadband internet service has been introduced to Ghana. The new service which will be launching on the 12th of June 2006 will initially cover Accra.*
The proponents of iBurst are always proud to showcase it as a true broadband solution due to the fact that it surpases all existing mobile technologies in terms [...]

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I got the following text in my email yesterday, from someone I know. My reply follows the text.
According to “Northern African Wireless Communications” Feb./March 2006, the “combined revenues” for the two mobile operators in Senegal, Sonatel Mobile and Sentel, came to just two million dollars in 2004. From what we know about comparable figures [...]

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Speculation time is over. It’s now official; Mobitel/Buzz GSM is now tiGO.
Millicom Ghana Limited, operators of the tiGO network in Ghana, have also confirmed that the company would soon launch a mobile Internet service using GPRS technology, as well as MultiMedia Messaging. See Mobile Africa
The concluding part of Millicom’s press release reads:
Ghana is the third [...]

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On 24th February 2006, I speculated: Ghana’s Buzz GSM to go GPRS?
Well, the cat is out of the bag. Not only is Mobitel Ghana unleashing mobile Internet, they have rebranded thier cellular service to “tiGO”.
I am not very sure if tiGO applies to both post-paid and pre-paid packages from Mobitel Ghana as they had hitherto [...]

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