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Africa & Middle East Telecom Week (African telecoms news newsletter)
Blycroft Publishing
Newsletter 46 issues per annum
Never before has Africa and the Middle East offered such a remarkable business opportunity for telecoms manufacturers, operators and suppliers. Africa & Middle East Telecom Week is your business-alert service - monitoring the news from the Mauritania to Morocco, and from CDMA to carphones. Each week it will keep you on top of what your competitors, your clients... and maybe even your colleagues.. are up to!
For African telecoms news, AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST TELECOM WEEK is your weekly news service in this fast-moving telecoms market! Never before has Africa and the Middle East offered such a remarkable business opportunity for telecom manufacturers, operators and suppliers.
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*12 County Reports
* 4 quarterly sets of Mobile Operator Statistics
* 9,000+ stories in the Online fully-searchable Archive
Telecom News Headlines from issue 386 dated 20 August 2009:
A & ME SUBSCRIBER STATISTICS:
African Top 100 Mobile Operators 1Q 2009 - Part 1
African Top 100 Mobile Operators 1Q 2009 - Part 2
AFRICA:
COPTAC meet in Cameroon to discuss Central Africa telecoms
FTTH to be the future of Africa Telecoms?
ALGERIA:
Mobilis goes it alone on top-up tax strategy
CAMEROON:
Mobile users to register SIMs by December
CONGO BRAZZAVILLE:
MTN Congo team with Sicap to offer Pay4Me service
EGYPT:
Telecom Egypt posts 2Q 2009 results, appoints Tantaway as CEO
ETHIOPIA:
ETC announces annual results
GABON:
Artel push for SMS and email censorship in wake of presidential elections
GAMBIA:
Q-Cell introduces services
IRAN:
Megafon counters rumours of winning third mobile phone licence
ISRAEL:
Cellcom posts 15 percent profit increase in 2Q 2009
Internet Gold posts improved 2Q 2009 results
Scailex acquires 51.31 percent stake in Partner
JORDAN:
TRC awards 3G licence to Orange
KENYA:
Naushad Merali reduces stake in Zain Kenya
KUWAIT:
Zain urges shareholders to revise ownership restrictions
MOZAMBIQUE:
mCel posts record profits
NIGERIA:
Nigerian government orders fresh licensing bid for 2.3GHz spectrum licence
Zain upgrades fibre cable network in Niger Delta
OMAN:
Nawras to offer self-service machines to pay bills
QATAR:
Qtel posts robust 2Q and 1H 2009 results
SAUDI ARABIA:
Zain Saudi Arabia signs USD 2.5 billion finance deal
SOUTH AFRICA:
CWU reaches consensus with Telkom
MTN asks Bharti to raise offer
Neotel, Infraco expand connectivity in SADC region
Telkom seeking buyer for Swiftnet
SUDAN:
MTN adds Yirol to network
TANZANIA:
TTCL to serve customers through SEACOM
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Bayanat introduces IP transit services to ISPs
WiMAX - KENYA:
Safaricom acquires WiMAX provider Packet Stream
ZAMBIA:
CAZ grants legal 3G licence to Zain — Ngabo Nankonde
ZIMBABWE:
Fibre-optic cable project initiated for improved telecommunications
Headlines for the issue dated 22 June 2006:
A & ME SUBSCRIBER STATISTICS:
North & East African States Mobile Network Subscriber Statistics: 1Q 2006
AFRICA:
Rwanda in diary for next EASSy meet
ALGERIA:
Etisalat to bid for Algerie Telecom
Orascom leads the field at the end of April
BAHRAIN:
Expansion Deal for Batelco, Telecom Italia
Wrist slap for Batelco low-cost plan
COTE D'IVOIRE:
SIM-based soccer game for MTN
EGYPT:
Orascom may raise Hutchison stake
GHANA:
China to provide USD 66 million funding for telecom projects
ISRAEL:
Discount Investment may sell stake in Cellcom
KENYA:
KDN plans to land FLAG cable
New station will cut rates says Safaricom
Safaricom concern over high duties
Safaricom, Wananchi Sign Partnership Agreement
KUWAIT:
3M Telecom wins new cable contracts
iJack for Wataniya
MTC to offer World Cup downloads
Wataniya completes funding for Tunisiana
LIBERIA:
US Embassy under states mobile market
MALAWI:
Celtel announces new distributors
New distribution model for Celtel
MOZAMBIQUE:
Vodacom subscriber base up by 84.9 percent
NAMIBIA:
Government mulls MTC ownership alternatives
NIGERIA:
Call centre is big and beautiful says Glo Mobile
NITEL faces setback due to strike
OMAN:
Profits on the increase for Omantel
QATAR:
Qtel consortium reaches final round of Egypt GSM Licence bid
SAUDI ARABIA:
STC, Mobily to allow free switchover
SOUTH AFRICA:
Glenayre Migrates MTN Customers to Next-Generation Messaging Platform
Telkom to reduce tariffs by yearend
Virgin Mobile: a warning from Singapore
TANZANIA:
Celtel receives funding for network expansion
TURKEY:
Avea applies loan to GSM expansion
UGANDA:
MTN facilitates long-distance top-ups
ZAMBIA:
CAZ warns mobile firms about service standards
ZIMBABWE:
Telecel appoints Chibesa as new MD
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