Africa & Middle East Telecom weekly news

February 21st to February 28th 2008

AFRICA:
Vodacom in acquisition talks with LAP Green 

BAHRAIN:
Government plans sale of Batelco shares
Zainalabedin appointed as new Zain Bahrain CCO 

EGYPT:
NTRA to auction second fixed-line licence on 19 June 2008
Orascom Telecom to reduce issued capital 

GHANA:
GT stake still on offer
Mobile customer base crosses seven million 

ISRAEL:
Court frees Cellcom of subscribers’ lawsuit 

KUWAIT:
Wataniya releases annual and 4Q 2007 results 

MOZAMBIQUE:
Vodacom Mozambique claims to own 40 percent of mobile phone market share 

OMAN:
Omantel reveals plans for the launch of VoIP service 

QATAR:
Qtel introduces new Hala connection as promotional offer
Qtel launches new HSDPA-based Internet service
Qtel releases annual and 4Q 2007 results 

SAUDI ARABIA:
Fixed-line consortia get final approval to set up network
Mobily’s founders plan to sell 100 million shares 

SOUTH AFRICA:
Telkom buys back 16.8 million shares
Vodacom introduces new unit
Vodacom to spend ZAR 2.5 billion to offer converged services 

SUDAN:
Southern Sudan soon to avail mobile and Internet services 

TANZANIA:
Vodacom collaborates with Starfish to launch new digital content services 

UGANDA:
Reliance Communications to foray into the Ugandan telecom market
UTL launches a new offer 

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
du collaborates with Reliance Globalcom
du customers in Adhan complain of disruptive services
Etisalat selects AdaptiveMobile to provide SMS spam protection
NSN, Airwide name du as first joint customer
TRA warns Etisalat and du against not following PCP