Mobile VAS company Netxcell Ltd has announced a joint venture for the African market with AquaSanTec, a group of companies that delivers water and sanitation solutions in seven African countries: Kenya, ... Continue_Reading

Airtel has set an enterprise value of Zain Africa at $10.7 billion, with $10 billion to be paid on closing, and $700 million to be paid one year after the ... Continue_Reading

Update: An ownership dispute between Econet Wireless and Zain has come in the way of Airtel’s plans to acquire the latter’s African operations, with Business World reporting Econet Chief Executive ... Continue_Reading

Update: Essar has acquired majority (51%) stake in the Dhabi Group’s Uganda and Congo-Brazaville telecom networks, which are collectively valued at $318 million. The capital will be used to expand ... Continue_Reading

Update: Curiouser and curiouser: Rediff has an interview with Farid Arifuddin of Vavasi Technolgies, particularly questioning him about his political affiliations, connections and proximity to the Congress (I). Business Standard too ... Continue_Reading

UshaComm, which provides billing related Business Support Systems (BSS) for fixed, mobile, broadband/IP primarily in Africa, is entering the mobile Value Added Services space by setting up a VAS division ... Continue_Reading

Bangalore-based mobile advertising company mKhoj has adopted a new avatar with as InMobi. In 2007, the company had started operations as a local mobile search service (hence the khoj in the ... Continue_Reading

Essar Teleholdings, the telecom subsidiary of Mumbai-based Essar Global, has set up a 90:10 joint venture with a local firm Kenyan Telecom Uganda Ltd. The JV has received a licence ... Continue_Reading

More of an infrastructure deal, this: Bharti Telesoft (BTSL) has tied up, interestingly, with a company that its sister concern was wooing: CIOL reports that BTSL will provide deploy SMSC, ... Continue_Reading

OnMobile Global has tied up with Vodafone to pilot advertising supported ring-back tones (Ad RBT) in India, and has inked a strategic partnership with media buying agency GroupM to bring ... Continue_Reading