Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news

21st to 28th of June 2007

AFRICA:
Flag Strikes another Deal with EASSy; VSNL Likely to Follow
Nokia, NSN reiterate African development plans 

ALGERIA:
Nedjma selects Ericsson to deploy MSS 

BAHRAIN:
Batelco adds on to Business Benefits campaign 

EGYPT:
Orascom Telecom acquires the remaining stake in Mobilink; Wins Sotel Tchad arbitration 

ETHIOPIA:
Telrad wins infrastructure contract from ETC 

GAMBIA:
Gamtel seeks GMD 50 million for airspan deployment 

GHANA:
Areeba debuts GPRS roaming in Ghana
Ghana to privatise Ghana Telecom to attract strategic overseas investors
NCA takes steps to improve telecom access 

ISRAEL:
Pele-Phone charged with NIS 239 million class action suit 

JORDAN:
NSN initiates operations in Jordan 

KENYA:
Alcatel-Lucent bags two contracts in Kenya
Safaricom releases results for 2007 

KUWAIT:
Kuwait to witness inception of third mobile carrier in 2008
MTC Vodafone Kuwait upgrades its SMSC 

MALAWI:
MTL rolls out new dial-up Internet service 

MIDDLE EAST:
Mobily doubles its mobile broadband access speed with HSDPA 

MOZAMBIQUE:
mCel reduces tariffs for calls to landlines 

NAMIBIA:
InfoVista to provide performance management solutions to Telecom Namibia 

NIGERIA:
Celtel rolls out Jembi 210 service 

OMAN:
Omantel to acquire stake in Worldcall 

QATAR:
Qtel pioneers DVB-H network in the Middle East 

SAUDI ARABIA:
STC to invest USD 1.1 billion on broadband; takes Maxis stake 

SOUTH AFRICA:
Cell C offers free call offerings to push revenues by 20-25% by 2010 

ZIMBABWE:
Huawei partners with TelOne to expand CDMA telephony network in Zimbabwe

Source: African & Middle East Telecoms News