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ISSUE NO 421 ITXC judgement lifts the carpet on bribes to seven African telcos for contracts
Everyone knows it happens but the conclusion of the trial of three former ITXC employees has aired how it is done. Employees of seven African telcos all state owned with one exception were given bribes to obtain wholesale VoIP voice contracts. The sums involved were not large but court documents reveal how it was done and some interesting incidental detail about international carrier rivalry.
TELECOMS Smile Communications gets Uganda telecoms licenceSouth African-based low cost telecoms firm Smile Communications has been awarded a telecommunications licence by the Ugandan government, Uganda's communications minister said last Tuesday.
INTERNET Altech Wins Battle to Build Own Network in South AfricaBusiness and consumers can look forward to cheaper telecommunications services after technology company Altech won a legal battle for the right to build its own network. COMPUTING Positive results claimed for the One Laptop Per Child Project test in RwandaThe Ministry of Education's Secretary General together with the ICT department, has just finished carrying out an evaluation exercise to establish the efficacy of the One Laptop per Child project.
ON THE MONEY Nigerian telco Globacom in Vodacom takeover bid?South Africa's biggest mobile operator, Vodacom, could become a takeover target for Nigerian business tycoon Mike Adenuga (owner of Globacom), who has proposed a merger between Telkom's 50% stake in the mobile operator and Nigeria's Globacom.
WEB AND MOBILE DATA NEWS South Africa’s national Internet portal growingSouth Africa’s national internet portal, SouthAfrica.info, receives almost 30-million hits a month and compares favourably with the country’s top commercial web sites, the statutory International Marketing Council (IMC) says in its latest annual report.
BACK ISSUES ISSUE 420 Double play in Nigeria: ipNX will use WiMAX to carve itself a niche offering voice and broadband ISSUE 419 Libya’s LPTIC heads for full NGN implementation with pilot local access projects ISSUE 418 West African consumer broadband prices continue to tumble as OTI Telecom lowers its retail offer ISSUE 417 VoIP wars The battle moves closer to the mobile operators ISSUE 416 ISSUE 415 Indian company to launch low-cost, solar base station targeted at African operators ISSUE 414 Race to build a west coast fibre promises to push international bandwidth prices to new lows ISSUE 413 Fight the power: Ghana's insurgent challenger ISPs set to take on the vertical-integrators ISSUE 412 Dabba looks set to make micro low-cost voice telco operations a reality ISSUE 411 Chinese-supplied CDMA 2000 becomes hybrid convergence challenger for African operators |
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