Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news

6th of September to 13th of September 2007

AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST:
MTC commences re-branding of operations

AFRICA:
Celtel International elects Simon Cairns as chairman of board

BAHRAIN:
Zain Bahrain’s WiMAX network enters final phase of deployment

BENIN:
Moov resumes operations in Benin

EGYPT:
Etisalat Egypt to offer international calling facility

ISRAEL:
Cellcom Israel planning public offering of debentures
ECI, NSN to deploy NGN for Cellcom
Israeli Supreme Court rejects Bezeq’s plea for a VoB licence

JORDAN:
Centile to provide IntraSwitch VoIP platform to Tarasol Telecom

KENYA:
Econet pays remaining licence fee

MIDDLE EAST:
AT&T to provide VPN services to Ericsson in Middle East

NAMIBIA:
Ferreira moves out of MTC

NIGERIA:
Etisalat acquires stake in new Nigerian telecom carrier

QATAR:
Qtel extends promotion for Personal Mobile Email service
Qtel rolls out GSM post-paid yearly subscription plan

RWANDA:
Major telcos show interest in majority stake of Rwandatel

SAUDI ARABIA:
Oger Telecom declares cancellation of IPO
Saudi Telecom plans foreign acquisition

SENEGAL:
Sudatel wins new telecom licence in Senegal

SOUTH AFRICA:
Telkom seeks measures to reduce damages claimed by Telcordia

TURKEY:
Turkcell awarded first 3G licence

UGANDA:
Uganda Telecom reduces international calling tariff
Warid Telecom selects Huawei for IMS system deployment in Uganda
World Bank to finance Celtel’s expansion plan

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
du extends the reach of Call Select service
Etisalat awards NGN contract to Alcatel-Lucent
Etisalat, Dubai eGovernment form JV to provide ICT solutions to government
Thuraya plans to launch services in Asia-Pacific