Blogs

The last three months have been the best for Kenyan mobile phone users, providing the most vicious price war between Safaricom and Celtel.  read more »

It is one year since Nigeria successfully launched its communication satellite (NIGCOMSAT-1) into space. Not much of that success appears to have gained any meaning among our political writers.  read more »

All was well meant when Communications and Transport Minister Dora Siliya challenged African Communications Experts at a workshop on sustainable rural telecenters in Lusaka last week to come up with strategies that their governments will use to roll out ICT to rural areas.  read more »

Consider this profile of an 'Information outsider.'
I am inside the Las Vegas Convention Centre in the State of Nevada, the United States. Two ICT events are holding simultaneously: the Infocomm and Nextcomm conferences and exhibitions – both are going on as one single event.  read more »

The announcement by Kenya Power Lighting Company (KPLC) that the company is adopting new payment methods came at the right time.

KPLC CEO Don Priestman said that the company will use mobile phone mode of payment mainly through Celtel’s me2u service. Soon, I am sure the service will expand to Safaricom’s Mpesa, which has a larger user base.  read more »

Why Merali beats us all…..

Businessman Naushad Merali is well known in Kenya’s business circles. He is famous for upstaging MTN in the sale of Vivendi shares in Kencell, he exercised his right to buy off the stake, and within two hours he sold off to Celtel, making about 2 billion shillings (US$ 30 million).  read more »

I had cause to be in the cold city of Jos, central Nigeria, recently for the annual conference of the National Association of Computer Students (NACOSS) at the University of Jos.

As usual, the gathering underlined the realities of our youths at the various centres of learning across the land.  read more »

When Safaricom announced a KSh19 billion profit, it also said we could call free from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., provided you load KSh100 of air time during the day.

On the first day, making calls was not that hard, but the next week, it was hell. No call was going through. Many wondered why Safaricom was giving such an offer if the system could not handle the number of calls.  read more »

Long queues have in the past characterized shares’ purchases in Kenya, mainly through Initial Public Offering (IPO), but the just concluded Safaricom IPO had lessons for aspiring investors.  read more »

By Brenda Zulu

As Zambians await the listing of shares by Celtel Zambia on the Lusaka Stock Exchange (LuSE), it is a good time to look at the technological risks that are outlined in the Celtel Prospectus.  read more »