Mobile Africa

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Meditel Morocco
Médi Télécom (Meditel), says it now has 4.023 million mobile subscribers, an increase of 47.4% over the previous 12 months.
Net customer additions in the fourth quarter of 2005 were 185,000, 17% up on the fourth quarter of 2004. Revenues for the full-year 2005 were EUR397 million, up 21%.
OIBDA increased by 2% year-on-year [...]

MTN Nigeria
MTN Nigeria subscribers are now able to call and be called on their MTN phones even when they travel to any of the 65 countries spread across all the continents. Known as “International Roaming” in GSM parlance, this MTN service, according to Afam Edozie, the company’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, translates to enhanced [...]

Glo mobile
Subscribers to the second national operator, Globacom can now send and receive messages from and to any electronic mail address on their mobile phones.
This will ensure that Glo mobile subscribers can send messages across the world into e-mail boxes from their phones or from any e-mail box to their phones. A message from the [...]

Samsung mobile phones
SAMSUNG Electronics a world leader in electronic convergence systems is set to engage GSM handset producer Nokia in a fierce competition as it releases sophisticated GSM and GPRS compatible handsets in to the market.
Regional director for Africa for Samsung, Albert Kim at meeting with media executives in Lagos said the frequent release of [...]

Kasapa
Cellular service provider, Kasapa, has announced plans to embark on a gradual but strategic expansion of its network to enable more people to benefit from its services.
Speaking at a ceremony to reward the Twenty-Thousandth customer of the network, the Managing Director of the company, Bob Palitz said the expansion programme will be undertaken in a [...]

MTN RwandaCell
MTN Rwandacell, part-owned by South African mobile operator MTN, launched an international gateway on Tuesday, ending its dependence on the state’s satellite station.
“What it means for us is that we are no longer an island,” said MTN Rwandacell Chief Executive Rob Trustcott. “We used to be cut off from direct communications with the world, [...]