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SA to get 100 more transmitter towers

Source: Empowering Financial Decisions, Nov 22 2012, 6:01am CST

Dubai - Eaton Towers, which owns and manages telecom infrastructure in Africa, will build about 100 towers in South Africa next year. The company's customers include Vodafone, MTN Group [JSE:MTN] and India's Bharti Airtel, and it w ...

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Rural Broadband and mobile coverage arrives at Waimana

Source: Scoop - New Zealand News  |   Jun 17 2013, 6:01pm CDT

Rural Broadband and mobile coverage arrives at Waimana Mobile coverage and broadband options just got better for residents, and visitors to Waimana as Vodafone lights up its newly built cell site under the Governments Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI). ...

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Airtel to use green energy to power its Africa towers

Source: Economic Times  |   Jun 17 2013, 5:34pm CDT

MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel plans to use environmentally-friendly energy sources to power its telecom towers in Africa as part of an effort to reduce the operational costs of running the network. The company plans about 1,300-1,4 ...

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As wire ends & wireless begins, banks tango with telecoms

Source: DNA India  |   Jun 16 2013, 9:37pm CDT

Financial services are sparse in India’s hinterland; and for those living in far-flung villages, accessing them often means a weary trudge to the taluk. But telecom outlets dot the dusty roads, even in the rem ...

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Association for World’s Mobile Operators Opens Africa Office

Source: Humanitarian News  |   Jun 16 2013, 2:27pm CDT

Back in 2010 when the iHub first opened, we had some of their staff who were in Kenya working out of the iHub and using the space for different meetings. They loved the vibe and makeup of the Kenyan tech community a ...

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Association for World's Mobile Operators Opens Africa Office

Source: Global Voices Online  |   Jun 16 2013, 11:09am CDT

The world is talking, are you listening? Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world. Learn why » The GSMA, the global association for the world’s mobile operators, opens ...

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Telkom cuts China grip with UK firm network deal

Source: Business Daily   |   Jun 16 2013, 8:52am CDT

Telkom Kenya has loosened the dominance of Chinese operators in Kenya’s telecom infrastructure market after awarding a UK network leasing firm a 15- year contract to maintain its existing masts and build new ones. The operator ended a maint ...

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Every1Mobile reaches into Africa

Source: Biz Community  |   Jun 14 2013, 8:35am CDT

Every1Mobile (E1M), which specialises in building mass audiences via mobile in sub-Saharan Africa, recently announced that it has raised R18 million in angel investment. Every1Mobile, founded in 2010, uses the power of mobile-enabled social ne ...

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Airtel issues $3.35 bn guarantee to Netherlands arm

Source: Economic Times  |   Jun 14 2013, 8:30am CDT

NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti Airtel has issued around $3.35 billion (Rs 19,400 crore) guarantee to its Netherlands-based holding company, Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV in April. "This is part of routine substitution of acquisit ...

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Telkom Kenya signs tower management partnership with Eaton Towers

Source: Africa Business  |   Jun 14 2013, 7:14am CDT

The fifteen-year tower management and leasing deal is focused on both the maintenance of existing sites by Eaton Towers and the building of new sites NAIROBI, Kenya, June 14, 2013/ – Integrated telecommunications services provider, Telkom ...

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