Nairobi, Kenya – Mobile Web East Africa, an event that focuses on “harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices”, starts tomorrow 3rd February 2010 and ends on 4th February 2010, at Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. The innovative event already has a long roll-call of speakers and facilitators, and has special round-table sessions [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 29, 2009
Glo Mobile is very likely to be launched in Ghana before the end of this year 2009. Having shifted their launch date severally, a launch in December 2009 seems imminent. Glo Mobile’s entry into Ghana comes at a time when Ghana’s mobile communications industry appears to be saturated already. For a population of about 22 million [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
With the entry of international telecoms giant Vodafone into the Ghanaian telecoms industry, things would never be the same again. Matter-of-fact, the telecoms industry is very exciting at this time because Ghana is the meeting point of some African and international telecoms giants: MTN, Tigo, Vodafone, Zain, and soon-to-launch Glo Mobile. The main thrust of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Apparently in a bid to rival MTN Ghana’s mtnloaded.com.gh, Zain Ghana is launching its own content portal for its subscribers. The competition on the mobile front in Ghana has been between MTN and Zain in recent times. There is a problem however. The web address Zain is advertising doesn’t belong to them and doesn’t contain [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Due to the overwhelming interest in my previous blog post “Zain Ghana Number Reservation“, I feel obliged to follow it up with a detailed guideline on how to pre-register your phone number on the Zain Ghana network. I need to point out that Zain Ghana itself, caused some of the confusion on the Internet today. I [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Something big seems to be coming to Ghana. Zain in preparation towards their commercial roll-out, is giving residents of Ghana the chance to reserve their dream phone number on the Zain 026 cellular network. The URL for this is http://ichoose.gh.zain.com/ Update: I have closed the entry of any new comments on this blog post. If you still [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 8, 2008
West Africa just got smaller. Literally. MTN, a leading telecommunications company in Africa has just launched a new service named MTN Seamless Roaming on a pilot basis. Though this name (MTN Seamless Roaming) is less funky than their usual product brands, it is in my view, the best value added service they ever launched. The [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 28, 2007
With its 75% acquisition of Ghana’s Second National Operator (SNO) – Western Telesystems Limited [WESTEL] from the government of Ghana for US$120 million, Celtel now has an operation in Ghana. Celtel International is the African arm of Zain. According to Zain’s website: [...] Zain (formerly MTC Group) acquired African mobile telecoms leader Celtel International B.V in May [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 23, 2005
Kasapa is causing serious shock waves in Ghana's mobile telecommunication industry and its only a matter of time before the cellco becomes a formidable force.
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