The draw for the “Dealer Win Big” promotion that ran for three months was held on the 12th December 2004. Full story

South Africa's Vodacom has won the continent's first licence to provide new generation, or '3G', mobile telecommunication services. Full story

The Nigerian Communica-tions Commission has threatened to sanction two GSM operators, MTN and Vee Networks Limited for charging subscribers who migrate from per minute to per second billing, even after repeated warnings. Full story

GLOBACOM is engaging on series of activities by way of demonstrating its readiness to take over the leadership of the country's mobile sector. Full story

DETERMINED to give more customers access to its services, GSM operator, Vmobile has announced plans to open more company operated outlets (V Stores) and dealers' outlet (V Shops) across Nigeria. According to the company's, acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Information Systems Officer, Mr. John Ayoh, Vmobile has in the past few months pursued an aggressive network rollout programme, leading to the launch of ... Full story

Mobile phone service provider, Celtel, yesterday introduced new top up cards bearing the company's new identity. Full story

Whatever fight the embattled mobile phone company, Celtel (SL) Limited may put up, it must be made to comply with the government regulation to stop using frequency bands not allocated to it, especially the now contested frequencies of 899.2 MHz-949.2 MHz (uplink) and 944.2 MHz-949.2 MHz (downlink). Full story

Vodacom’s switched on their 3G network on Sunday, December 19, and South Africa’s Leading Cellular Network launched 3G video calls to South Africans at the same rate as voice calls. Full story

Celtel Kenya pre-paid subscribers can now utilise the roaming service introduced by the company yesterday. Full story

MTN is pleased to announce that it has chosen Ericsson to be its partner of choice for third generation (3G) network. This announcement follows MTN’s decision to provide the South African market with 3G services during the first half of 2005. Full story