ITU Telecom

Despite the milestones achieved as Nigeria's telecommunication subscribers have grown to 46 million people in the past seven years, the country can still absorb new entrants into the marketplace, Minister of Information and Communications John Ogar Odey said at ITU-Telecom Africa 2008 in Cairo last week.  read more »

Despite its booming telecommunication market, Nigeria lacks venues appropriate for hosting the annual ITU Telecom Africa conference and expo, said Ernest Ndukwe, executive vice chairman and chief executive of the Nigerian Communications Commission.  read more »

Like many parts of the developing world, Africa wants a piece of the IT outsourcing market, and while problems in India have opened the way for that to happen, challenges stand in the way of a big breakthrough.  read more »

GSM operator Etisalat Nigeria is moving to assure Nigerians that, though its commercial services rollout is taking some time, its network platform ultimately will be reliable.  read more »

Mobile money transfers, payments, how to charge customers and e-health are some of the areas where the rest of the world can look to Africa for inspiration.  read more »

Wireless broadband and the domination of Asian vendors are the two most prevalent trends in evidence on the show floor at ITU Telecom Africa.  read more »

Nigeria is offering incentives to encourage foreign direct investment in the country, especially in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).  read more »

There is a lot of good news in Africa, especially in the mobile space, but regulatory and technical challenges remain for both mobile phones and broadband, industry organization the GSM Association (GSMA) said Tuesday.  read more »

Sanjiv Ahuja left his role as CEO of Orange, the mobile phone and Internet access subsidiary of France Télécom, last year in order to seek a new challenge. With his new company Augere, he is now focused on rolling out broadband Internet access in parts of the world where penetration today is almost nonexistent -- and sees a need for desktop, not laptop, computers in developing countries.  read more »

The ICT (information and communications technology) industry needs to do its part to help alleviate the current food crisis, according to the Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif.  read more »