Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news

1th to 8th of June 2007

AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST:
EMS inks deal with MTC for BlackBerry in MEA
Etisalat plans expansion in MEA region 

AFRICA:
Africa witnesses two new fibre project deployments 

BAHRAIN:
Batelco inks GPRS roaming agreement with Mobilink Pakistan 

EGYPT:
Axiom Telecom commences operations in Egypt
Etisalat Egypt plans 3 million users by end 2007
Etisalat Misr inks contract with Sun for business solution
Orascom Telecom CEO announces acquisition plans in Europe
Sawiris eyes Bouygues Telecom acquisition 

GHANA:
Ghana Telecom launches roaming service for Onetouch customers 

GUINEA BISSAU:
Orange wins mobile phone licence 

IRAN:
TCI to release stock by September 

ISRAEL:
Bezeq board to nominate Gabay as acting CEO
Bezeq Releases Strong 1Q 2007 Results
Israel’s Allot offers bandwidth management solutions in Colombia 

KENYA:
Three state corporations declares former employees’ appeal to be baseless 

KUWAIT:
EXA Telecom, LG Electronics ink mobile distribution deal in Kuwait
MTC to bid for Qatar mobile telephony licence 

MALAWI:
Access Communications wins second national operator license 

NIGERIA:
Nigcomsat-1 attracts overseas, local entity subscriptions 

SAUDI ARABIA:
Mobily launches RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl in Saudi Arabia
Spotmedia signs deal with Mobily for digital signage solution in Saudi Arabia 

SOUTH AFRICA:
ADFC releases tender notice for network construction across Southern Africa
South African firm signs USD 15 million deal with Econet for share purchase 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
du poised to offer fixed-line, Internet services across UAE by 2007
Skye-phone partners with Etisalat 

ZIMBABWE:
Econet successfully deploys GPRS in Zimbabwe