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  Senegal’s Minister of Comms to open telco event

  Moustapha Guirassy, Minister of Communication, Telecommunications and Information & Communications Technologies, and Spokesperson of the Government of Senegal, confirmed this week that he was to give an Opening Keynote Allocution at West & Central Africa

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  Kazakh operators switch to per-second billing

  Mobile operators are switching to per-second billing in Kazakhstan, the country’s Ministry of Communications and IT of the Republic of Kazakhstan says. This is a move from per-10 sec billing, which is currently in place. This move is in line with an order

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  Kenyan competition spills onto mobile banking

  Safaricom and Airtel Kenya have both started separate partnerships that will enable their subscribers to buy goods and services from merchants worldwide. Safaricom and I&M Bank have launched M-Pesa PrePay Safari Card, which is an international Visa card t

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  Kenya price war impacts on ad spend

  Kenyan Telcos Safaricom and Airtel increased their advertising spend since the price war intensified. In its report for the six months to September 2010, Safaricom stated it had increased its marketing costs by 40% compared to the previous year. According

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  Turk Telekom increases profit in 2010

  Turkish company Turk Telekom, which owns mobile operator Avea, increased its profits by 18.3% in 2010, reaching TRY3.31 billion (US$2.1 billion). Revenues also increased by 2.7% year-on-year to nearly TRY11 billion, with EBITDA up 11% to just under TRY5 b

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  Transaction costs to be cut on mobile money

  Mobile phone firms offering money transfer services in Kenya will be required to lower their charges as a pre-condition for being allowed to send higher amounts in a single transaction. Mobile phone operators who have applied for approval to raise their t

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  Airtel, Wananchi, Orange, Safaricom discuss strat

  Michel Barre, VP East Africa and Islands Region, Orange France Telecom Group; Richard Bell, Group CEO, Wananchi; Rupinder Goel, CIO, Airtel Africa and Peter Arina, CCO, Safaricom will lead a 40 strong speaker panel at East Africa Com in Nairobi, Kenya, 5-

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  MTS, VimpelCom, Turk Telecom, Avea meet in Turkey

  Oleg Raspopov, Vice President and Head of Business Unit “Foreign Subsidiaries”, MTS, Russia; Dmitriy Kromsky, Head of CIS Business Unit, VimpelCom; Dr. Ramazan Demir, VP of Strategy and Business Development, Turk Telekom; Kagan Karamanoglu, Corporate St

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  AfricaCom - who was there & what they thought

  AfricaCom 2010 was heralded a resounding success by the 4,500 telcos in attendance across the 2 days in Cape Town. The packed exhibition welcomed more exhibitors and more attendees than ever before while the extended conference welcomed the biggest ever

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  Watch interviews with MTN, Orange Botswana & m

  Find out what some of the headline speakers and exhibitors predict for the market and thought of the show, hear a special announcement from MTN, watch the winners of the AfricaCom Awards collect their "African Telecoms Oscar", find out the latest Informa

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