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Vodacom hits 33 Million subscribers
MyADSL - Melville,South Africa
As at December 31, 2007, Vodacom Group recorded 33.0 million customers across its networks operating in South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and Mozambique. This reflects a 4.7% increase in the three months since September 30, 2007. The growth in the customer base is a result of high gross

Angola: Retrospect - IT Sector Evolved in 2007
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Angola recorded in 2007 a great growth in the sector of information and communication technologies, in which digital facility is accessible to all citizens and the access to Internet is no longer a problem.Available data indicate that about 3 million citizens are connected to Internet and are cell phone users ... Today, the urban centres are seen as more

Zambia telecoms ups spending on mobile, cable
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
By Shapi Shacinda LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's state telephone utility will spend about $105 million to lay a fibre optic network and to lift its mobile subscription to one million customers by June 2008, its managing director said. Simon Tembo said Cell-Z, a subsidiary of the state-owned Zamtel Ltd., hoped to increase its mobile subscriber base from the current

Botswana: Country Must Own Knowledge-Based Products-Nkate
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

Minister of Education, Jacob Nkate, says the revitalisation of tertiary education and the expansion of its contribution to poverty eradication, socio-economic growth, peace and stability across the Southern Africa region requires large scale concerted political, technical, commitment and institutional dedication. Jacob Nkate was giving a keynote address at the 'Open Access' leadership summit of the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) at the University of Botswana (UB) ... Nkate revealed that the government of Botswana is seriously committed to increasing the skills level of its people. "I believe increased government-sponsored access to tertiary education will address the skills shortages we are faced with as well as fulfilling the Vision 2016 aspiration of Botswana becoming a knowledge-based society," he said ... Nkate further stated that whilst the post-colonial concerns were about becoming more competent, it is now more important than ever that Africans become increasingly skilled in their own knowledge production, be active creators and contributors to international thinking and decision-making rather than be on the receiving end ... "Open access approaches and models promote universal unrestricted free access to full-text scholarly materials and scientific research via the Internet which in turn accelerates knowledge transfer," he said ...

Botswana: BTC Slashes Internet Bandwidth Prices By 64 Percent
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The country's leading telecommunications service provider, the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC), has reduced Internet bandwidth prices by up to 64 percent as part of its commitment to providing affordable Internet access ... Due to a substantial increase in bandwidth demand

Mozambique: CNE Blames South African Company
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Mozambique's National Elections Commission (CNE) may hold the South African company that supplied computer equipment for the current voter registration responsible for the delays and breakdowns that have characterised the work ever since it began, on 24 September.Speaking to Mozambican Television (TVM), CNE spokesperson Juvenal Bucuane

Namibia: Telecom Partners With Cisco
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
TELECOM Namibia yesterday became the first country in emerging sub-Saharan Africa - which excludes South Africa - to be awarded membership to the Cisco Systems programme. The Cisco programme includes more than 300 global members and allows them to take advantage of Cisco's marketing and technical expertise in the promotion of their network services. Nasdaq-listed Cisco Systems is a California-based

DRC Plans Ambitious Infrastructure Development
OneWorld.net - London,England,UK
For all the difficulties in Eastern Congo, the DRC has seen a number of recent developments that will form the beginning of a backbone development plan for the country. Canadian NGO Alternatives launched its extremely detailed feasibility study for a backbone plan and the Government has begun to look at some of the issues that will need to be addressed if it is to