OA News: November 13-17, 2011
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- Jamii Telecom takes on rivals with lower broadband prices {Business Daily}
- Ghana, Burkina Faso and Togo get fibre optic connectivity {PCBurkina.org}
- Hotspots : Africa , Q3 11 {BuzzCity via BizCommunity}
- Harare City Council suspends fibre optic trenching {TechZim}
- The Facebook-less Africa: Where Electronic Social Networks Don’t Reach {ICTworks}
- France Telecom Offers Free Facebook to Emerging-Market Customers {Bloomberg}
- Intel aims to connect more Egyptians {IT News Africa}
- Liberalisation of Ethiopia’s VSAT market applauded by comms sector {Rapid TV News}
- VC4Africa extends tech support to Somaliland {Computerworld Kenya}
- WiMax ‘offers hope’ for Africa broadband {news24}
- Yahoo sets its sights on South Africa {memeburn}
- Safaricom’s Inland Fibre Tender Attracts Foreign and Local Firms {Business Daily via allAfrica.com}
- Internet addiction in Kenya worse than substance abuse {IT News Africa}
- New media central to Moroccan political debate {Morocco World News}
- Zambia declines to scrap VAT on imported mobile handsets {Computerworld}
- Rwanda Aspires to Become the ‘Singapore of Africa’ {PRI’s The World}
- African broadband to grow steadily, report says {CFOworld}
- A new local daily deals site called Dhiri to launch {TechZim}
- Orange Launch Low-Cost Smart Phones For Europe, Africa {HuffPost UK}
- Local exchanges keeping ISP costs down {IOL}
- The Kili failed by little internet access {IPP Media}
- Cape Verde fourth for internet penetration in Africa {TelecomPaper}
- AfricaCom 2011: The Internet Takes the Cape {Sandvine}
- I is for Internet? {Casey Across the Atlantic}
- Econet connects Zambia to Seacom and Sat3 undersea cables {Zambian Watchdog}
- Telecoms invest billions in fibre optic cables {The Standard}
- Internet to Better Rural African Life {Daily Nexus}
- ICT for rural development in Tanzania {NL-Aid}
- UCC, MTN partner to boost ICT in Uganda rural communities {East African Business Week}
- Kenya WordCamp 2011: Naivasha {Afrinnovator}
- Backbones haut débit: quels usages pour l’Afrique? {Ecofin}
- En avant pour le Burkina 2.0 {SlateAfrique}
- Providing Secondary Schools With ICT {Vanguard via allAfrica.com}