East Africa is one of the most dynamic markets in Africa. Most countries in the region are experiencing high GDP growth and favourable market and regulatory conditions. Tanzania is one of the most attractive with 7% GDP growth, stable political conditions, dynamic operators and a low mobile penetration level...

Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications group, has commissioned Subex Azure's Ranger fraud management and Moneta revenue assurance products...

Warid Telecom Uganda, part of Abu Dhabi based Warid Telecom International, has selected Motorola to design and deploy an 802.16e WiMAX network in Uganda...

Protege QV - Promotion of Technologies that Guarantee Environment and a better Quality of Life - is a Cameroonian NGO created in 1995. It aims to promote individual and collective initiatives to induce rural development, protect the environment and improve community well-being. Avis Momeni, Executive Director of Protege QV, introduces his organisation to us and then describes an exciting and vital project...

Reliance Communications’ Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe subsidiary is set to achieve its ambition of becoming the world’s largest IP network over submarine cabling. FLAG has awarded Fujitsu the contract which will double FLAG’s size and build four new cable systems across the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Uganda Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a contract to extend Uganda Telecom’s GSM/EDGE mobile network and deploy the first 3G UMTS/HSPA network in Uganda, one of the first such deployments in the East Africa region.

The past few weeks have seen the emerging market community celebrate Sangonet’s twentieth anniversary, with Sangonet itself releasing its own special publication: “The Sangonet Story, 1987-2007 - twenty years of linking civil society through ICTs” which was launched at the annual Sangonet ICTs for civil society conference...

"We need a Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa. We have to mobilise the world's human, financial and technical resources to support economic growth, employment and development across Africa... 

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) is responding to the demand in cost-effective IP transit capacity in Africa. Its new IP Trunking DVB-S2 platform service is designed for the entire African continent...

FTS a provider of Business Control, Billing & CRM solutions has teamed up with African IT Distributors and Systems Integrator RT2i to focus on the communications service provider market...

Huawei has successfully deployed the largest High Speed Packet Access network in the Middle East and North Africa region for Etisalat in UAE...

Telecentre organisers in Congo Brazzaville recently met to discuss the approach they needed to take if their telecentres were to fulfil their targets of bringing ICT to the Congolese people. Sylvie Niombo of APCNews explains...

Orphans and other vulnerable children in Nigeria are the targets of the Fantsuam Foundation which assesses the risks the children face from HIV/AIDS as well as traditional dangers such as hunger and disease...

Recently, ITU and Cameroon ran joint a workshop on strengthening ICT for disaster management. The conclusions included a plea for more of the cross-border co-operation and the waiving of paper-work aspired to at the Tampere Convention...

Iridium Satellite has become an official supplier to Connect Africa, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to introduce mobile communication and public service facilities for rural communities across Africa. Iridium will supply satellite voice and data services...

The world’s first wind and solar commercial network GSM cell site has been deployed combining the technology and commercial expertise of Motorola, the GSMA and MTC Namibia...

The world’s first wind and solar commercial network GSM cell site has been deployed combining the technology and commercial expertise of Motorola, the GSMA and MTC Namibia...

Following its successful conference this February, the Women of Uganda Network is leading a drive both for greater female involvement in ICT and also for women to set up more businesses. We look at an all-too-rare initiative...

Several recent stories reported by Developing Telecoms have revealed the rise in importance of ICT and telephony to Nigeria. One more example of this trend is UK-based Gateway Communications' purchase of GS Telecom. Gateway gains a foothold in Nigeria, not to mention greater subscriber numbers throughout Africa...

Ghana 's Minister of Education, Science and Sports, Papa Owusu Ankomah, has announced that his country's government will introduce universal ICT education into Ghana 's core educational system in September.