Zamtel, Zambia’s only total communication solutions provider and NEC Corporation, the global leader in the integration of IT and network technologies, have agreed to build a new digital microwave radio transmission network to boost mobile coverage and capacity for citizens, enterprises and tourists across the country.
Category: Technology
New Satellite Extends Yahsat’s Commercial Coverage To Africa
Yahsat, the UAE-based satellite operator, has announced the manufacturing and launch partners for the Company’s recently announced third satellite, Al Yah 3,which is set to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2016.
MTN Ghana Eases School Fees Payment Burden
MTN Ghana has added another innovative service onto its robust and resilient MTN Mobile Money platform which allows parents and guardians to pay their wards school fees with ease.
GeoPoll Expands Global Sales Presence
GeoPoll, the world’s largest real-time mobile survey platform today (Monday) announced the hire of John Muthee as VP of Business Development in Africa. Muthee will drive the strategy and execution of key growth initiatives as GeoPoll expands its mobile survey capabilities across the continent. The company recently opened a regional hub office in Nairobi and […]
Tablet Adoption Endangers Bible Existence
OUT with the old and in with the new. This trend is playing itself out in Ghanaian churches where worshipers have resorted to the use of digitalized bibles in place of manual ones that have been in use for centuries.
Airtel Touching Lives’ Is Back On Screens
THE THIRD SEASON of the life transforming stories of Airtel Ghana’s award winning corporate social responsibility programme ‘Airtel Touching Lives’ has returned to the screens. In this new captivating season, Airtel identifies extraordinary people from all walks of life with dire needs and are given that priceless push that changes their lives.
ICERTIAS Unveils New Logo, Communication Identity
The Zurich-based international organisation ICERTIAS launched its new logo and corporate identity in Zurich, Switzerland. The globally present research and certification organisation has rebranded itself with a new logo in whose centre is an image of the average consumer, dubbed Checkman Charlie. ICERTIAS said that Checkman Charlie represented the consumer or buyer raising a hand […]
Philips Inaugurates High-tech Medical Simulation Lab
Royal Philips in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg inaugurated a state-of-the-art medical training simulation lab on the University premises during the Johannesburg (UJ) stopover of Philips’ fifth consecutive pan-African Cairo to Cape Town roadshow.
UBA Unveils One-Stop E-Payment Portal
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has introduced an online payments and collections platform tagged U-bills. The online payment platform has been enabled in all the 19 countries where UBA has operations, according to officials of the bank. U-bills, is a collection and bill payments platform that allows sellers to collect payments online or on […]