Sub-Saharan Africa

Orange joins the mHealth alliance to develop West Africa

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

08 March 2010

In a partnership aimed at advancing mobile technology to improve public health, healthcare systems and patient care in the developing world, Orange has joined the mHealth Alliance to develop mobile health solutions in West Africa...

Mozambique Mobile lucrative and set to boom soon - Research and Markets

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

11 February 2010

Mozambique is set to become an attractive and lucrative market for for mobile investors, according to Mozambique Mobile Communications Market, a new report from Research and Markets. The low mobile penetration rate is a very tempting base on which to build business...

Network investments, cheaper handsets boost East African mobile - Frost & Sullivan

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

09 February 2010

Four East African markets are set for growth by 2017 as a result of higher network investment, product innovation and cheaper handsets. Frost & Sullivan make their confident assertions in a new report East African Mobile Communications Markets...

Africa and the mobile web - an opportunity grasped

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

04 February 2010

Facebook and Twitter have found loyal users in Africa. Some say that a lack of fixed-line infrastructure has somehow forced mobile users into using these socially-oriented functions. Michael Schwartz challenges this perception...

Telkom Kenya: 3G regulators overcharging for licence fee

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

02 February 2010

Telkom Kenya is worried that its deployment of a 3G network in Kenya will be threatened by the US$25 million licensing fee set to be imposed by the Communications Commission of Kenya. The company believes that the fee will mean less money for mobile development...

Research and Markets: Mauritius will return to 4%-5% levels of growth from 2011

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

01 February 2010

Mauritius - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband is the latest report from Research and Markets. It predicts that annual GDP growth should return to between 4% and 5% as of 2011...

Zambia opposition: we’ll renationalise Zamtel

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

28 January 2010

Zambia’s next general election may see the ownership of fixed-line monopoly Zamtel as a key issue. Main opposition leader Thomas Sata says he will reverse the privatisation as it is a strategic organisation and he believes that rural branches of Zamtel will be closed...

Internet penetration accelerating in South Africa

Market Trends - Sub-Saharan Africa

19 January 2010

A new study conducted by World Wide Worx has identified a growth spurt in South Africa’s Internet user base that looks set to continue into 2010…