Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news
Marsh 27th to April 3rd 2008
AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST:
Zain vies investment in China, India
AFRICA:
Nigeria gentle edges ahead of South Africa
BAHRAIN:
Batelco to introduce Video Conferencing Service
TRA imposes BHD 100,000 fine on Batelco
EGYPT:
Egypt's Mobinil seeks international calls discount
GHANA:
Ghana Telecom attains USD 200 million bond facility
Government in talks for GT stake sale
ISRAEL:
Bank Leumi to sell stake in HOT
Bezeq sells satellite business to RRsat
KENYA:
TEAMS to get funding from private investors
MADAGASCAR:
Telecom consortium to link Madagascar with Sat3-Wasc-Safe
MOROCCO:
Wana awards network upgrade contract to Alcatel-Lucent
NIGERIA:
Cambridge Broadband Networks to deploy backhauling solution for MTN
OMAN:
Omantel approves dividend payment
QATAR:
Acision deploys SMS roaming solution for Qtel
ictQATAR extends deadline for second fixed-line licence auction application
Qtel to offer WiMAX services outside Qatar
SOUTH AFRICA:
Neotel acquires Transtel for USD 29.93 million
Telkom rejects Oger Telecom offer
Vodacom Business begins commercial offerings
Vodacom receives merger approval
TURKEY:
Turkcell launches voice message service
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Etisalat launches IT unit in India
Etisalat to launch mobile money transfer service shortly
ZAMBIA:
Celtel launches BlackBerry service