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Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today launched the Airtel brand and unveiled the new brand identity across its 16 African operations.
With the unveiling of the new brand identity Airtel, becomes the master brand for all the group’s 19 operations in Asia [...]
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 [...]
How Information Communication Technology (ICT) is transforming Africa
This year, the Kenya Information and Communication Technology (ICT) regulator, the Kenyan Communications Commission (KCC) marked its first 10 year anniversary with flamboyant radio, newspaper and television adverts detailing its achievements. Many of the radio stations have been offering cash prizes to listeners who can innovatively detail what life was like before the advent of [...]
Mo Ibrahim is a fixture in the early international mobile telecommunications industry and is the founder of one of Africa’s most successful mobile telecom companies, Celtel International (Zain).
Founded in 1998, Celtel International was one of the first pan African providers to bring the benefits of mobile communications to millions of people across the African continent. [...]
Asian Group May be the New Co-Owner of Zain - Report
According to a report on Al-Arabiya television today, an Asian group of investors are in the final stages of closing the deal on a 46% purchase of Kuwaiti owned firm - Zain(Formerly Celtel)(ZAIN.KW).
When asked for comment by Reuters, Zain spokesperson Ibrahim Adel declined.
Zain’s shareholders voted to remove individual ownership limits on Aug 31, and is [...]
Africa’s Mobile Broadband Market to Grow Exponentially by 2011
The Africa region has the fastest growing mobile phone penetration rates in the world. A recent report by Delta Partners, a leading management advisory and investment firm, says that mobile broadband is an industry about to explode and will grow exponentially over the next 2 years.
The lack of fixed infrastructure coupled with high costs of service [...]
Zain Kenya enters the Mobile Money Transfer Market
The fight for customers in the Kenya Mobile Telecoms market just got hotter, last month. Zain Kenya finally got the go ahead from the Central Bank of Kenya to offer its money transfer service dubbed ‘Zap’ to the public. Launched last week, this will end market leader Safaricom’s two year monopoly with their money transfer [...]
