Infrastructure en continu
In pictures - Mobile phones boost Ivory Coast cashew nuts
10/04/2012
BBC news - March 5, 2012
Cashew nut growers are no longer cheated out of income by middlemen when they use mobile phones to get the latest price information from the world's major buyers - India and Vietnam.
See photos with...
Catégories: TIC
Africa’s Mobile operators turn to local content to boost internet usage
10/04/2012
This is Africa - 31 March 2012
With more than 500 million subscribers across the continent inching the mobile voice market towards saturation, mobile technology companies are increasingly looking to data services as a means of...
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Africa: Welcome to the Future - a World of Big Data, Voice Without Revenue and Shared Infrastructure for Over-the-Top Services
10/04/2012
allAfrica.com - 5 April 2012
London — At the end of March, Gateway Communications invited a panel of people and a selected industry audience to look at the "Future of African connectivity". With the exception of a...
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Partnership critical to cross border mobile services in Africa
10/04/2012
Vanguard - 10 April 2012
Sustainable development of cross boarder mobile money services in Africa requires partnership in which industry stakeholders, policymakers, and regulators cooperatively share information, says African...
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Algérie: L'internet quatre fois plus puissant
10/04/2012
Algérie Télécom a annoncé mercredi qu'elle va procéder bientôt « à une extension du backbone national Internet ». Sa puissance va être multipliée par...
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SES to Provide Satellite Services to Ethiopian Telecom
09/04/2012
2Merkato.com - April 9, 2012
SES, Luxemburg based company with a fleet of 50 satellites, is in negotiations to provide satellite services to back up the infrastructure of Ethiopia’s telecommunication provider, Ethio Telecom....
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World Bank offers funding boost to Kenyan ICT infrastructure
03/04/2012
The World Bank has offered financial assistance to the Kenyan government as it seeks to become the global hub for mobile phone applications, Business Daily Africa has reported.
Indeed, the Bank has provided Sh4.5 billion ($55...
Catégories: TIC
Africa's premium TV for less
02/04/2012
The Africa Report - March 30, 2012
In a previous column, I commented on the rapid changes in direct satellite-to-home TV reception across Africa, thanks to the launch of a number of packages, most of them free of charge. A wind...
Catégories: TIC
African Mobile phones get surprisingly smarter
02/04/2012
The Africa Report - March 29, 2012
Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and...
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Mobile firms bleed billions to fraud and bill errors
02/04/2012
BBC News - March 29, 2012
Mobile phone firms are losing $58bn (£36bn) a year worldwide to billing errors and fraud, a report says.
Juniper Research found operators were "leaking" revenue because the complexity of...
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ICT: African governments get behind Africa's domain name
30/03/2012
BizCommunity.com - March 29, 2012
Government ministers attending the recent Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit in Ethiopia, this week pledged their support for the ZA Central Registry's (ZACR) bid to become the dotAfrica...
Catégories: TIC
MTN awarded Benin Republic and Cote d'Ivoire licences for broadband investment
30/03/2012
MTN, one of Africa's leading communications providers, has been awarded a universal licence in Benin Republic and a 3G licence in Cote d'Ivoire, with both set to lead to large infrastructure investments. The firm will be...
Catégories: TIC
South Africa: Telkom network revamp to ‘bring broadband home’
29/03/2012
Creamer Media's Engineering News - March
Telecommunications group Telkom on Wednesday embarked on its last, and most challenging, step of its network transformation project.
The company installed Africa’s first multi...
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Vodacom May Lose Control of Congo Unit Amid Dispute
29/03/2012
Bloomberg - March 28. 2012
Vodacom Group Ltd. (VOD) may lose control of its wireless unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a court ordered its shares be confiscated to settle a $21 million dispute with a consultant....
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US: In Colloquy, Senators Discuss Legislation to Increase American Exports to Africa
29/03/2012
allAfrica.com - March 28, 2012
Washington, DC — U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and John Boozman (R-Ark.) spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday evening about legislation they introduced last week that...
Catégories: Eau, Infrastructures générales, TIC
Multiple Taxes on Nigeria's Growing Telecoms Sector (video)
27/03/2012
ABNDigital - March 22, 2012
Some telecom operators have raised alarm over what they call Undue taxes and levies imposed on them by government and its agencies across Nigeria which they claim will push up tarrifs. The NCC has...
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Report hails expansion of Africa's internet infrastructure
27/03/2012
A new report, produced by Internet World Stats, has claimed that infrastructure improvements have driven growth in Africa's internet and broadband sector, Peace FM Online has reported.
This is largely thanks to wireless...
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Afrique : 93 milliards de dollars par an pour les infrastructures
27/03/2012
Selon une nouvelle étude réalisée par la Commission économique des Nations unies pour l’Afrique et la Commission de l’Union africaine, l’Afrique devra investir 93 milliards de dollars...
Catégories: Energie, Infrastructures générales, TIC, Eau, Transport
Les travaux du réseau de fibre optique vont débuter prochainement au Burundi
26/03/2012
La fibre optique, qui permet d'accéder à l'internet haut débit de dernière génération, devrait bientôt faire son entrée au Burundi.
Les travaux d’installation...
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African innovations - Homegrown advancements drive Africa's tech revolution
23/03/2012
Al Jazeera English - March 22, 2012
Across Africa, developers and programmers are coming up with new technologies from mobile banking to mapping software and medical tablets to cloud storage. Now the continent is increasingly...
Catégories: TIC