Internet, mobile, fibre, and telecoms developments from Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

This year, we aim to routinely jot down snippets of our thoughts on what is happening in the realm of African Internet progress.

News-worthy African tech articles from early January 2012 that focus on 22 individual countries.

A variety of news articles related to IT developments across the continent and global trends that influence African tech progress.

How diverse were the African ICT news articles we found in 2011? The following table gives a breakdown of how often a country was tagged in oAfrica.com news posts.

Smartphones still cost at least $50 and service charges put 3G out of reach for most, even if the service is technically available. LTE, therefore, will be out of reach for 99.9% of Africans.