Category: News
Kenya engineering university students to access Kshs 100 million of free Microsoft software in 2013
The Kenya section of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE- read as ‘I triple E’) has confirmed continuity of a partnership with Microsoft under which a wide selection of software is provided to IEEE Student members and Graduate Student members for free. IEEE Kenya section chair, Vincent Kaabunga said the offer by [...]
Airtel Tosha to offer Kenyan subscribers more voice, SMS and data
Airtel Kenya has today announced the introduction of a new permanent tariff dubbed Airtel Tosha which enables customers to get much more on voice calls, SMS and data at low daily subscription rates designed to fit their unique individual needs. In a statement, Airtel Kenya MD Shivan Bhargava said, “This is yet another flexible service [...]
SatADSL in capital increase to finance growth strategy in Africa
SatADSL, a Belgian Company providing satellite Internet access and communications service in Sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the successful completion of a capital increase aiming at financing its development over the next 5 years. SatADSL completed this last round of capital increase against a cash contribution of 1 million Euros by a leading Belgian private equity [...]
Safaricom to reward subscribers in Kshs 500 million in 1-month “TETEMESHA” promo
Safaricom has announced the launch of a 30-day promotion dubbed Tetemesha which is open to all PrePay and PostPay customers where one lucky winner will walk away with the grand prize of Kshs.10 million. A further 30 winners will take home Kshs.1 million each in a daily draw that will see many more customers win [...]
CEO Ren Zhengfei: New Zealand one of Huawei’s most important strategic markets
Huawei to deliver the most advanced Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) and LTE networks for New Zealand Ren Zhengfei, CEO and founder of Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today said the company is committed to bringing value and contributing to New Zealand’s digital economy. “New Zealand is one of Huawei’s most [...]
Zuku partners with AFC Leopards to roll out “INGWE TV”
Pay TV channel, Zuku, has announced a Kshs.23 million investment to support AFC leopards for a 3-year period from 2013-2015. As part of the sponsorship, part of the funds will go to the club in support of their operations while the remainder will be used in the production of a TV magazine show – “Ingwe [...]
Intel: Universal Service Funds key to driving broadband in Africa
· Intel Africa Forum drives dialogue around importance of Universal Service Funds as a strategic investment to enable pervasive broadband access and services on the continent · USFs and broadband leaders share best practices around ways of deploying broadband programs to unlock benefits for all citizens of Africa, with a primary focus on 21st Century [...]
Huawei wins Informa’s “Cloud Africa World Forum 2013” Award
Huawei has received the Informa Cloud Africa World Forum award at the end of the first day of the Cloud Africa Conference being held in Sandton, Johannesburg under the theme Embracing Carrier IT Transformation towards ICT Convergence. Other participants included IBM, Safaricom Business, Intel, HP, ASG, Pamoja, Parallels, among others. At a workshop held during [...]
Airtel to stock Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones in 140 outlets in Africa
Bharti Airtel has announced that beginning early May 2013, its subscribers will have the opportunity to buy the Samsung Galaxy S4 smart phones in all Airtel outlets across the African continent. The devices will also come with 3 months of data. Andre Beyers, Airtel Africa chief marketing officer: “We have responded to our customers’ demands [...]
Kenya’s TeamKenya and Ghana’s Team Trokxi and Team Nimdee Mobile semi-finalists in Ericsson’s “Apps for City Life” Awards
TeamKenya (from Kenya) and two Team Trokxi and Team Nimdee Mobile (both from Ghana) are among the global Ericsson Application Awards semi-finalists Winning teams will receive €25,000 in prize money. The 2013 Ericsson “Apps for City Life” Application Awards is a global contest that aims to promote innovations towards the Networked Society by connecting people, [...]