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The troubles facing financially distressed mobile operator Cell C have taken a dramatic turn. TechCentral received this open letter from CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson on Wednesday evening, which we publish here in full.

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Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel says it now has more than 60m active users in Africa. It added 10m subscribers in less than 12 months and says this growth has helped make it the fourth largest mobile operator worldwide and Airtel one of the largest players in Africa. The company

United Nations agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has ranked Zimbabwe second in the “most dynamic country” category of its latest measurements of ICT development. This development is measured using the ITU’s ICT Development Index

M-Pesa, which has more than 14m subscribers in Kenya, could be forced to increase transaction costs by 10% as East African nation’s treasury looks to impose a levy on transactions made using the mobile money transfer service. Though Kenya’s treasury says it expects mobile

A new study shows that Zambia has the lowest cost of electricity in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, with a rate of less than US$0,40/kWh. Namibia, meanwhile, charges as much as $7,83/kWh. According to the report, Malawi and SA have roughly the same end-user tariff of $4,47/kWh and