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Africa ICT Trends and Countries to Watch in 2010

It’s that time of the year when any expert worth their salt makes some predictions for the New Year. I too couldn’t resist a peek into my crystal ball and here I share what I believe will be the major ICT trends and some of the countries to watch this year. In general, 2010 promises [...]

• Industries:
• Technology

• Countries:
• Tanzania,
• Senegal,
• Nigeria,
• Kenya,
• Ghana,
• Ethiopia,
• Uganda

• Tags:
• 3G broadband,
• 3G licenses,
• Africa ICT Trends,
• African Countries to Watch 2010,
• BPO,
• Business Process Out,
• e-commerce,
• m-banking,
• M-Commerce

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East Africa’s Mobile Market Poised for Double Digit Growth Over the Next Five Years

A recent report by Frost and Sullivan shows double digit growth in the East African Mobile market over the next 5 years.  According to the 246 page report, East Africa ( Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda) currently has 37.6 mobile subscribers with a penetration rate of 30.8%.  The East Africa mobile communications market is expected to [...]

• Industries:
• Technology

• Countries:
• Tanzania,
• Ethiopia,
• Kenya,
• Uganda

• Tags:
• CDMA,
• East Africa,
• Frost adn Sullivan,
• GPRS,
• GSM,
• HSDPA,
• Mobile,
• Orange,
• Safaricom,
• Telcom Kenya,
• WCDMA,
• Zain

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Noah Samara

Noah Samara has been called “the Rupert Murdoch of the Southern Hemisphere.” In fact, to 5 billion Africans, he is much more famous than is Murdoch, the newspaper mogul in the U.S. and U.K.
Born in Addis Ababa to an Ethiopian mother and a father from the Sudan, Samara is a short, wiry man who is [...]

• Industries:
• Technology

• Countries:
• Pan African,
• Ethiopia,
• Sudan

• Tags:
• Ethiopian entrepreneur,
• Noah Samara,
• Satelite radio,
• WorldSpace Corporation,
• XM Radio

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