MTN Ghana recently deployed Ericsson’s latest MSC-S Blade Cluster, which boasts capacity significantly compared to that of traditional mobile softswitch voice servers and reduces power consumption by up to 60 per cent per subscriber, providing significant cost savings for mobile operators.

The recent entry of Millicom International Cellular into the mobile services sector in Rwanda has energised the market allows competition and reduced tariffs.

SPB Software has released SPB Weather 2.0 for Symbian, an important addition to its quickly expanding line-up of software for the Symbian smartphone platform.

Orange Cameroon has selected the Comverse Voice HUB to replace a competitor’s system to handle projected growth and support the deployment of new voice-related services on its mobile network.

A new solution developed by IBM, Novartis and Vodafone with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is helping to save lives using everyday technology to improve the availability of anti-malarial drugs in remote areas in Tanzania.