Alcatel One Touch has announced a Ksh 3.4bn (approximately US$26mn) investment in the East African market in order to strengthen its distribution network in the region
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Expanding at the base
IHS Towers has been building on a record of success in West Africa, with the rest of Africa and the Middle East set squarely in its sights
Safaricom to stop sale of feature phones in Kenya
Kenyan telecommunications operator Safaricom has announced that it will phase out and completely end the sale of feature phones in the country
China’s Huawei ranks third in global smartphone sales
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has secured third spot in 2012 global smartphone sales, after selling 27mn smartphones last year, a 74 per cent increase more than the year before, according to Gartner
The power of mobile marketing
Barry Mansfield and Ronald Bach, business unit director at Cape Town’s Prezence Digital, discuss mobile marketing