Business Issues

Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Kenya are putting pressure on mobile service providers to cut high interconnection charges in order to make communication between networks cheaper.  read more »

Wednesday's collapse of the on-again, off-again, US$23 billion deal between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel -- which occurred after the complex proposal attracted much intervention from political leaders and unions -- had as much to do with matters of national pride and politics as anything else.  read more »

The SEACOM fiber optic cable may not have meaningfully affected the majority of East Africans but South Africa's Allied Technologies' (Altech) has called it a "resounding success" and a growth driver for the years ahead.  read more »

Increased investment in IT infrastructure and research and development, mobile penetration and reforms in the business sector are some of the strategies Africa is pursuing in ensure inclusion in global competition indices.  read more »

Oracle licensing consultant Eliot Arlo Colon still remembers the enormous global publishing company that was "so darn confident" it would breeze through an upcoming software license audit unscathed.  read more »

Another legal challenge threatens to derail eBay's planned sale of Skype to a group of investors, with the filing of a suit against Joost's former CEO.  read more »

Tata Communications has expanded its presence In Africa, casting its net wider to include smaller ISPs (Internet service providers).  read more »

American Customer Satisfaction Index shows Apple leads in customer satisfaction ranking for personal computing ahead of Windows-based PC makers.  read more »

Oracle is devoting two full days and 70 sessions at the upcoming OpenWorld conference to its Primavera PPM (project portfolio management) software, which is used to track and manage the torrent of people, assets, timelines and expenses associated with projects and services engagements.  read more »

A year after Safaricom paid US$2.6 million for a controlling share in WiMax provider One Communication, it is raising its stake in the mobile technology by paying an undisclosed fee for Packet Stream Data Networks.  read more »