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The East African report Kigali will soon go wireless after the government launched a $7.66 million wireless broadband (WiBro) facility that is set to make it the first “hot spot” capital city in Africa.
The facility, whose infrastructure been under construction for the past two years, will go commercial in three months.
The wireless Internet facility was [...]

Sierra Leone has launched a satellite link-up to connect doctors around the country to their colleagues in India. The system enables doctors in Sierra Leone to consult doctors in India and benefit from data analysis in better-equipped Indian hospitals. For now the telemedicine link-up has been launched in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. But national hospital [...]

THE government of Ghana has described the landing of Glo-1, Globacom’s multi-million dollar international submarine optic fibre cable in Ghana as the beginning of a new dawn in telecommunications industry in Africa.

Nigerian banks and mobile phone companies continue to grapple with customers’ requests following damage to a major terrestrial internet cable system. The SAT-3 connects Nigeria and several African countries to Europe.

The Nigeria-based Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) said on Thursday that along with other investors it had agreed to an equity financing deal for a $240 million fibre-optic cable to provide faster Internet and telecoms to West Africa.

Instead of building tens of thousands of cell towers and still getting no signal due to power outage, how about using few hundreds floating weather balloons to provide full communication for the the whole of Africa…?

Whether the sale and purchase agreement of 70% of the state-owned Ghana Telecom is ratified by Parliament or not, the agitation around it will remain in the minds of Ghanaians for years to come. It will remain a test-case of how not to sell a strategic public asset without consultation of the people.

The NCA is an agency of the government with oversight to, in effect, regulate the telecommunications sector and implement terms of Ghana’s National Telecommunications Policy. According to the policy (2004) that can be downloaded from the Internet, while the Ministry of Communications is “responsible for the definition and elaboration of Government policy regarding telecommunications”, the [...]

The 70% acquisition by Vodafone of state-owned Ghana Telecom may be a done-and-dusted deal, subject only now to parliamentary approval in the august house. There are, however, serious issues arising that merit some consideration.
First of all, one would have to be from Mars not to know that this is an election year. After the announcement [...]