Festive Season Vodacom is making it easier than ever for customers to stay in touch with friends and loved ones, even with no airtime. Vodacom’s new Reverse Charge service, available to all its customers, allows customers to phone a Vodacom Contract customer even without airtime. Full story

Spice Nepal Private Ltd. (SNPL), a Nepalese GSM network operator, has contracted CBOSS Corporation to upgrade its end-to-end convergent IT CBOSS solution just after 1,5 years of successful operation. Full story

CBOSS Corporation has successfully integrated the billing systems of Yeniseytelecom and STeK GSM. The integration was performed in line with the business development strategy of Yeniseytelecom and involved the unification of different currencies used by the telecoms' billing systems. The complex project also featured various services including technological consulting, business process reengineering, system integration, etc. Full story

Vodacom SA has announced the introduction of two innovative personal social networking services that are a first for South African cellphone users. Full story

A new CDMA network operator WaselTelecom is starting to provide mobile, fixed-wireless and data services in the North of Afghanistan. The Afghan telecommunications market is highly competitive and includes four GSM players and one national fixed and CDMA network operator AfghanTelecom. Full story

Africa abolishes roaming as Celtel’s One Network expands 400 million people across 12 countries now connected across Africa in one border-less mobile network covering an area more than twice the size of Europe. Full story

Africa Next Knowledge Brokerage and Interaction (ANKBI), the successor organization to the Technology Assessment Project (TAP), and the Center for Information and Communication Technology of the Technical University of DenmarK, in association with the Institute for Democratic Governance, MMRS Ogilvy and DataCenta Ltd, would organize the Jubilee Year edition of the Mobile Ghana conference on November 14, 2007. The conference would run, principally, on two tracks: urban-rural differences in access and utilization of ... Full story

The MTN Group is pleased to announce that it recorded 54,162,000 subscribers across its 21 operations for the quarter ended 30 September 2007, a 12% increase from 48,346,000 subscribers recorded at 30 June 2007. Full story

Celtel International, a subsidiary of Zain (formerly named the MTC Group) announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire 75% of Western Telesystems Ltd (Westel) from the Government of Ghana for USD 120 million. The Government of Ghana remains a shareholder in Westel with a 25% holding through the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. The transaction is subject to standard approvals and authorizations and is ... Full story

MTC Group, the leading telecommunications mobile provider in 21 countries across the Middle East and Africa, today announced it has re-branded to Zain (www.zain.com) which becomes the Group’s corporate master brand with immediate effect. In Africa the Zain Group will continue to trade under the Celtel brand. Full story