Mobile

With a mobile services penetration rate of 65 per cent at year-end 2010 that is expected to catapult to 93 per cent by 2016, Senegal is one of the more advanced mobile markets in West Africa, with plenty of room for growth, according to Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com).

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The Wananchi Group, which provides triple-play (broadband, multichannel cable television and voice telephony) and VSAT (broadband data and Internet) services — currently the only triple-play operator in East Africa — is rolling out new services in nine countries in the eastern African region: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zambia.The Wananchi Group, which provides triple-play (broadband, multichannel cable television and voice telephony) and VSAT (broadband data and Internet) services — currently the only triple-play operator in East Africa — is rolling out new services in nine countries in the eastern African region: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zambia.

Huawei have announced that it has unveiled a number of new switches  for enterprise users