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Botswana
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Fear surrounds Botswana Sim-card registration

afrol News, 11 July - Amid mounting fears of phone surveillance by state security agents, Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) remains adamant with going ahead with the registration of all prepaid mobile phone sim-cards on 15 September 2008.

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Ghana
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Vodafone to seal US$ 960m Ghana deal

afrol News, 2 July - The world's largest mobile phone service provider by sales, Vodafone, is at the brink of sealing a US$ 960 million deal with the government of Ghana today. Under the deal, Ghana government will sell 66.7 percent of Ghana Telecom's shares to the world mobile giant.

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Gambia
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IMF hails Gambia's economic stability

afrol News, 4 June - Gambian government has been hailed for maintaining a successful macroeconomic stability as well as sustaining a high economic growth since 2006.

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Africa
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Africa's mobile industry to pay $71 billion tax by 2012

afrol News, 29 May - The mobile industry will generate $71 billion in tax revenues in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2012, a research commissioned by the GSMA [the global trade body for the mobile industry] proved.

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South Africa
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Xenophobic violence threatens Cape Town tourism

afrol News, 23 May - Chaos and terror reigned in the streets of Cape Town last night, with hundreds of panicking foreigners scuttling about for safety, as the xenophobic attacks that have engulfed some of the main South African cities extend to the Mother city.

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» 16.05.2008 - Japan to double aid to Africa
» 15.05.2008 - Nigeria firm signs mobile expansion deal
» 13.05.2008 - Africa fastest growing market in communication technology
» 30.04.2008 - Senegal adjusts Gambia's internet bandwidth capacity
» 07.03.2008 - Namibia hosts IT roadshow
» 19.02.2008 - Nigeria cancels privatisation
» 12.12.2007 - Ex-prisons chief convicted
» 07.12.2007 - Gambia telecoms finally gets board
» 03.12.2007 - EASSy gets big boost
» 15.11.2007 - Sonatel, Ascade seal major deal
» 02.11.2007 - All South African industries increase turnover
» 31.10.2007 - $50 billion investment for African telecoms
» 19.10.2007 - Can making plant for Angola
» 16.10.2007 - Seychelles launches ICT policy
» 12.10.2007 - Gabon maintains stable economic growth
» 31.08.2007 - Multichoice Africa boosts capacity leases
» 30.08.2007 - Offshore IT outsourcing center for Ethiopia
» 28.08.2007 - Gambia defends telecoms sale
» 23.08.2007 - Senegal invites third mobile operator
» 13.08.2007 - Gambia sells out 50% telecoms shares
» 30.05.2007 - Gambian launches new mobile network
» 16.03.2007 - Africa becomes a service outsourcing location
» 13.12.2006 - Motorola signs US$75m GSM contract in Nigeria
» 30.11.2006 - Senegal, Mali get 'Orange' telecom operator
» 22.11.2006 - Nigeria to top Africa's mobile market
» 17.11.2006 - Maldives connection, a new fibre route to Africa
» 07.11.2006 - Moroccan ADSL market grows by 300%
» 10.10.2006 - Ivorian mobile company registers half a million subscribers
» 06.10.2006 - Internet booms in Senegal
» 08.09.2006 - Kenya to finance its own Internet cable
» 20.06.2006 - Mobile phones to empower rural Rwanda
» 19.06.2006 - Malawi Telecom to get competition on fixed lines
» 18.03.2005 - 3G introduction in SA could soon reduce phone bills
» 15.03.2005 - Old Kenya telecom commission "was corrupt"
» 09.03.2005 - Stakeholders unhappy with Kenya telecom reshuffle
» 03.02.2005 - Ghana's ICT sector is up to speed
» 28.01.2005 - Angola notes boom in cellphone use
» 12.01.2005 - Entire island of Mauritius gets wireless broadband
» 10.01.2005 - New community telephone initiative for Africa
» 03.12.2004 - Cape Verde restores Internet, phone line
» 01.11.2004 - Cape Town registers call centre investment boom
» 07.10.2004 - Botswana's "telecom revolution" lauded
» 27.09.2004 - Shanghai Telecom "soon Cape Verde's 2nd operator"
» 10.09.2004 - French telecom wins Libya deal
» 24.08.2004 - Ethiopia invests to upgrade GSM network
» 23.08.2004 - Comoros telecom market reforms speed up
» 14.06.2004 - South Africa's Intec signs deal with Algeria's OTA
» 27.05.2004 - South Africa losing role as Africa's technology leader
» 11.05.2004 - Contract to widen Senegal's telecom net awarded
» 05.05.2004 - Mobile phones revolutionise Africa
» 25.02.2004 - São Tomé to liberalise telecom market
» 17.02.2004 - Submarine cable to link Egypt with China
» 04.02.2004 - Zimbabwe govt gazettes new telecoms regulations
» 03.02.2004 - New GSM network deployed in Guinea-Bissau
» 23.01.2004 - Nigerian telecom legislation to be amended
» 12.12.2003 - Information Minister commits Zambia
» 17.11.2003 - Morocco removes all tariff barriers on IT products
» 31.07.2003 - Nigeria to "rejuvenate" telecom sector
» 23.07.2003 - Phones keep ringing in world's poorest country
» 21.07.2003 - Portuguese telecom monopoly in Bissau to end

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