Africa

MTN Nigeria and RIM Launch BlackBerry Solution

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:31:52 +0000

BlackBerry Pearl and BlackBerry 8700g now available in Nigeria

MTN Nigeria and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution, offering customers the BlackBerry® Pearl™ and BlackBerry® 8700g smartphones for the first time in Nigeria.

MTN Nigeria is initially offering the two new handsets along with the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server software, which tightly integrates with Microsoft® Exchange, Novell® GroupWise® and IBM Lotus® Domino® and works with existing enterprise systems, to enable secure, push-based wireless access to email and other corporate data. The BlackBerry 8700g features a sleek design, full QWERTY keyboard and provides exceptional performance together with an intuitive user experience. The BlackBerry Pearl, one of the smallest and lightest smartphones in the world, stands out for its elegant looks, camera and multimedia capabilities. » read more »

Telecom East Africa

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:38:41 +0000

Start: 06/21/2007 - 13:36

End: 06/23/2007 - 13:36

Timezone: Etc/GMT

Venue: Kenyatta International Conference Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Profile: Telecom East Africa is the East African region's premier Telecommunication, Information Technology and Computer trade exhibition, now in its seventh year. This trade exhibition is all about communications, and endeavours to bring together the suppliers of telephone, wireless, satellite, broadband and all forms of modern communications in one event under one roof.

Highlights: An Industry workshop is being organised in conjunction with key industry people and other interested parties. Details will be announced and posted later.

Visitors: Business people with an interest in any form of communication. Whether it be within the office between local offices or from one country to another. All the solutions should be at this expo. » read more »

Orange expands in West Africa

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:13:10 +0000

Acquisitions of mobile licenses in Guinea Bissau and Guinea

France Telecom announced the extension of its presence in Africa through two operations completed by Sonatel, its Senegalese subsidiary (43%).

It has been awarded a third mobile telephony license in Guinea Bissau. The commercial operations of Orange Bissau, the newly formed Sonatel subsidiary, will begin before the end of the first half of 2007 in this country.

In Guinea, Sonatel has purchased the mobile license formerly held by the operator Spacetel, for a renewable term of 15 years. At the end of this operation, Orange Guinea will be created with the intention of launching its commercial operations before the end of this year.

These two acquisitions mark a new advance in the deployment of the Orange brand in Africa and around the world. In Africa, Orange is already present in Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, and Senegal, and serves nearly 10 million customers in this region of the world. » read more »

Sierra Wireless expands European operations to meet customer demand

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:50:20 +0000

Configuration and distribution center located in Hungary to serve Sierra Wireless customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

February 14, 2007 -- 3GSM World Congress, Barcelona, Spain â€“ Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR - TSX: SW) today announced that based on increased customer activity in the EMEA region, the company has expanded its relationship with Flextronics, its manufacturing partner, to add a configuration and distribution center for Sierra Wireless products in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary. The Zalaegerszeg Center is now operational and supporting configuration, customization, packout, warehousing, and reverse logistics for the companyâ€™s EMEA customers. » read more »