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Nigeria
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Nigeria cancels privatisation

afrol News, 19 February - The government of Nigeria has again quashed the sale of a major privatisation deal approved by the regime of the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

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Africa
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$50 billion investment for African telecoms

afrol News, 31 October - The GSM Association has announced plans to invest over US $50 billion in sub-Saharan African over the next five years to provide mobile coverage to more than 90% of the population.

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Ghana
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Ghana’s leading mobile operators in trouble

afrol News, 16 October - Two of Ghana’s most popular mobile telephony network operators, MTN and Onetouch have been ordered by the National Communications Authority (NCA) to halt the activation of new access lines with immediate effect.

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Kenya
Politics | Economy - Development | Technology

Kenya to finance its own Internet cable

afrol News, 8 September - The Kenyan government today approved of its own euro 87 million undersea fibre optic cable connection between the United Arab Emirates and Mombasa at the Kenyan coast, thus opting out of a controversial African joint venture, the EASSy project. The new connection could boost connectivity and investments in the entire East African region, the Nairobi government hopes.

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Rwanda
Technology | Economy - Development

Mobile phones to empower rural Rwanda

afrol News, 20 June - The telecom revolution yet has to reach the Rwandan countryside, but a new project promises to bring infrastructure and business opportunities for local entrepreneurs. A new "Tel'imbere" service is to provide micro-loans to potential rural mobile phone central operators, who are to provide regions currently offline with affordable telecom services.

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» 03.02.2005 - Rwanda's secondary schools to be connected by 2017
» 03.02.2005 - Ghana's ICT sector is up to speed
» 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"
» 23.08.2004 - Comoros telecom market reforms speed up
» 12.07.2004 - Nigeria may join Global University System
» 21.06.2004 - Organiasations protest Tunisia venue of WSIS
» 07.06.2004 - Zimbabwe internet firms to spy on customers
» 27.05.2004 - South Africa losing role as Africa's technology leader
» 25.02.2004 - São Tomé to liberalise telecom market
» 04.02.2004 - Zimbabwe govt gazettes new telecoms regulations
» 12.12.2003 - Information Minister commits Zambia
» 17.11.2003 - Morocco removes all tariff barriers on IT products
» 21.07.2003 - Portuguese telecom monopoly in Bissau to end

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