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» 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
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» 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
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