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Senegal adjusts Gambia's internet bandwidth capacity

afrol News, 30 April - Senegal's national telecommunications company [SONATEL] has agreed to adjust The Gambia's internet bandwidth capacity from 34 megabits to 68 megbits by the end of April this year.

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afrol News, 7 March - A technology roadshow is taking place in the Namibian capital Windhoek on Friday.

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Cellcom enjoys major investment

afrol News, 3 March - An international private equity firm focused on investing across the African continent [Emerging Capital Partners (ECP)] on Monday announced a US $20 million investment in Cellcom Telecommunications Limited, mobile telecommunications company with operations in West Africa.

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Senegal
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Sonatel's future worries staff

afrol News, 29 February - Senegalese government's announcement that it would withdraw its capital from the national telecommunications company, Sonatel, has caused anxiety and disbelief among the company's staff.

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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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» 15.11.2007 - Sonatel, Ascade seal major deal
» 31.10.2007 - $50 billion investment for African telecoms
» 31.10.2007 - Africa to enjoy ICT boom
» 16.10.2007 - Ghana’s leading mobile operators in trouble
» 16.10.2007 - Seychelles launches ICT policy
» 11.10.2007 - Rwanda hosts Connect Africa Leaders’ Summit
» 23.08.2007 - Senegal invites third mobile operator
» 13.08.2007 - Gambia sells out 50% telecoms shares
» 25.06.2007 - Gambia’s rural wireless expansion in crisis
» 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
» 26.05.2006 - Africans on the Internet: Maghreb most sex obsessed
» 23.05.2006 - Pan-African e-network hub may go to Mauritius
» 25.11.2005 - Nigeria gets Internet exchange
» 17.11.2005 - Angola going for e-governance .. or e-censorship
» 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 - Rwanda's secondary schools to be connected by 2017
» 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
» 07.12.2004 - Tanzania's Mafia Island links telecom and environment
» 03.12.2004 - Cape Verde restores Internet, phone line
» 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
» 13.08.2004 - SMS for better women rights in Africa
» 16.06.2004 - Moroccan gendarme gets new communication network
» 14.06.2004 - South Africa's Intec signs deal with Algeria's OTA
» 07.06.2004 - Zimbabwe internet firms to spy on customers
» 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
» 04.05.2004 - Egypt, South Africa link up for telecoms development
» 03.03.2004 - Wireless healthcare project in Uganda wins award
» 25.02.2004 - São Tomé to liberalise telecom market
» 17.02.2004 - Submarine cable to link Egypt with China
» 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
» 16.11.2003 - Malian telecom Sotelma upgrades technology
» 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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