After years of testing, MTN plans to launch always-on GPRS services before June. The company is not talking about planned billing models, but says it will target the corporate VPN market.
Future communications satellites could feature dishes measured in acres or made up of a hundred thousand micro-satellites weighing a few grams, if theorists` plans are accepted.
A new BMI-TechKnowledge report has found that up to 95% of cellular subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa are prepaid, and that prepaid is still growing exponentially.
Siemens has partnered with Nokia and Sony Ericsson to develop Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS).
The Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) and its Lesotho counterpart have entered into an agreement which is to help prevent local cellular operators from impinging on the land-locked country`s frequency space.
Intel has released the first of its X-Scale processors, designed for cellular and handheld devices.
Nashua Mobile has appointed the IQ Business Group as its technology partner to roll-out its messaging and data strategy.
Orion Cellular has announced its Corporate Card service to offer its subscribers a 20% discount on all MTN airtime and subscription rates.
MTN Nigeria has pledged help to the citizens of Lagos, the Nigerian city where an armoury explosion led to hundreds of deaths.
Orion Cellular has unveiled the 08:4free service to enable organisations to implement their own toll-free cellular service.
A major telecommunications manufacturer has licensed SIM-card technology from Prism in a deal worth R40 million initially, and potentially far more.
Siemens international has bought back 9% of the local Siemens Telecommunications (Sietel) for R121 million through an option established in November, giving it a 60% stake.
With the government aiming to get all its citizens educated and online by 2005, it seems to me that the current trend of mass-market exploitation indulged by British ISPs will soon be forced to about-face.