You might not care much if I started blabbing about the most expensive cellphone in the world. But you may be more interested if I mentioned that Alexander Amosu, a UK-based Nigerian owns the business that makes those phones.
I first heard of Alexander Amosu watching Dragons’ Den, a TV business reality show while holidaying [...]

Visafone has hit the one million subscriber mark six months after it launched commercial operations on
A statement by the company on Tuesday described the record as unprecedented in the annals of Nigeria’s vibrant and competitive telecommunications industry.
The company, which was recently named ‘Best Telecom Brand of the Year’ at the Nigeria Telecom Awards, began [...]

From Ghana to Nigeria, the privatization bandwagon in the Telecoms industry is on course in the ECOWAS region.

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 [...]

Africa is emerging as a new landscape that no-one could have predicted a decade ago: Telephony has assumed power politics dimensions.

In its drive to become a true pan-African telecommunications operator, Nigeria’s Second National Operator (SNO), Globacom, at the weekend won a licence for Global System of Mobile communications (GSM) in Ghana.
Officials of Globacom see the development as a major boost in the company’s efforts to increase its take in the African telecommunications sector.
Globacom thus becomes [...]

Imagine being stuck in traffic on a rainy Monday night in Accra. You are priviledged enough to own a laptop, which you whip out to start writing a report. Given that the inside of the taxi is dark, you request that the inside light be switched on so that you can see what you are [...]

Linking physicians to a single network has profound implications for a country’s health care system. With that in mind, Brian Levine, a fourth year medical student at the New York University school of medicine, decided to set up an online social networking site so doctors all over Ghana could collaborate with each other.

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) operator in Nigeria, Visafone Limited, has unveiled a new range of phones at prices between N1,600 and N1,999, about $15. Currently, most CDMA and Universal Service Access operators in the country offer their phones from N2000 and above.
Chief executive, Visafone, Mr. Ninan Thomas, said that the latest from the shelf [...]