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Zain
1 August 2008 - Nairobi, Kenya - Zain Group, the leading telecommunications mobile operator servicing over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, today announced it has re-branded its entire African operations from Celtel to Zain (www.zain.com). The move coincides with the linking of the world’s first borderless mobile service [...]

Zain
Zain, the leading mobile telecommunication operator in the Middle East and Africa present in 22 countries, announces today its consolidated financial results for the first half of 2008. The results showed significant growth in revenues with customer numbers exceeding 50 million.
H1-2008 Key Performance Indicators

Total Managed Active Customers
50.74 million

Consolidated Revenues
US$ 3.488 billion

EBITDA
US$ 1.305 billion

Net Income
US$ 551.5 [...]

Zain subsidiary Celtel won the award for the Best Telecoms Operator in Africa at the prestigious 2008 Business in Africa Awards held in London recently, beating a host of other operators to win the award. The awards aimed at highlighting the growth and potential of the business landscape across Africa, while rewarding excellence and world-class [...]

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 [...]

Ghana Telecom
LIKE Nigeria, interconnection problem is a source of worry for telecommunications operators and subscribers in Ghana. The country has about five operators with one of them offering both GSM and fixed line services. They are Ghana Telecom, the state operator which offers both GSM and fixed services; Scancom, the leading GSM operator with its [...]

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 [...]