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Four Firms Bidding for Rwanda's 3rd GSM License

Four companies have been shortlisted to bid for Rwanda's third mobile license, the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) has announced. Thirteen companies had purchased tender documents from the regulator, but most chose not to submit a formal bid.  more

Related Tags: roaming, mtn, zain, ict, orascom-telecom, telecel, millicom, orascom, mtn-group, Rwanda


Four Companies Interested in Rwanda's 3rd Mobile License

Rwanda's government is moving closer to inviting bids for the country's third mobile network. Speaking at his regular presidential press conference last week, President Paul Kagame said that four companies have already expressed preliminary interest in the license. The four companies were named as Zain, Korea Telecom, Orascom and an unidentified Israel company.  more

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East Africa's telecom market has great opportunities for growth

Over 450 telecommunications professionals gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the opening of East Africa Com, the region's annual event for the telecommunications industry. The conference started with a keynote presentation from Bashar Arafeh, Celtel International's COO for the East Africa region, who was keen to point out that "East African markets, being currently under market average, hold plenty of room for growth."  more

Related Tags: roaming, gsm-association, huawei, mtn, hspa, zain, safaricom, celtel, vodacom-tanzania, m-pesa


Redknee Wins Pan-African Pre-Pay Provision Contract

Redknee Solutions has announced that an East African alliance of mobile operators, led by Kenya's Safaricom, has chosen its Mobile Money Services for its international prepaid roaming top-up service. The alliance, consisting of six East African operators including Safaricom, MTN Uganda, Vodacom Tanzania, MTN Rwanda, UCOM (Burandi) and Uganda Telecom, together serve an estimated 13 million subscribers.  more

Related Tags: mtn, safaricom, redknee, mobile-money, Kenya


Kenya's Safaricom Expands "Free Roaming" to Rwanda

Kenya's Safaricom has expanded its "free roaming" service, Kama Kawaida to include Rwanda - with MTN Rwanda. This comes eight months after the successful launch of Kama Kawaida in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Early in the year, Safaricom, Vodacom Tanzania, and MTN Uganda offered its customers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania the opportunity to move freely across the three countries as they would on their home network.  more

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Three African Operators Abolish Roaming Charges

Three operators in East Africa have joined up to offer free roaming between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Vodacom Tanzania has teamed up with Safaricom Kenya and MTN Uganda to form the free roaming zone. more

Related Tags: mtn, safaricom, vodacom-tanzania, borders, dar-es-salaam


Top-Up Ugandan PrePay Phones from Overseas

MTN Uganda has launched a facility that enables overseas residents to top up PrePay accounts for their family and friends back home. This was announced at the official launch of MTNWeb2u, a new product that now enables MTN customers to receive airtime via internet. While introducing the product, Chief Commercial Officer, Erik van Veen, said MTNWeb2u has been created in partnership with Simba Telecom who will ensure transfer of the airtime via their website www.simbashop.com and True African 197. more

Related Tags: prepay, ict, safaricom


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