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LAGOS, Nigeria-Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a $57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2001, according to Motorola.

DENVER, United States-Nearly 10 years after the introduction of cellular services in West Africa, the number of mobile subscribers has increased to such an extent that it is rapidly becoming the epicenter of the communications market in the region-the focus shifting from fixed to...

AlcatelParis. With Orascom Telecom for the supply and installation of GSM solutions in the Middle East and Africa.Value: Undisclosed. Brazil. With Telemar for a GSM 1800/GPRS network in Brazil.Value: US$275 millionMoscow. With ZAO SMARTS for GSM 900 MHz solutions to extend networks in the...

LAGOS, Nigeria—Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a US$57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria.The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2001, according to Motorola.

LAGOS, Nigeria—Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions said it has won a $57 million contract from Econet to deploy GSM networks in northern Nigeria.The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2001, according to Motorola.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Many eyes in the wireless industry have recently focused on the emerging market of Africa with a lot of attention going to the recent auction of four mobile network licenses in Nigeria. The road to victory for Nigerian mobile prosperity has not...

NEW DELHI, India-Wireless network operators the world over are preparing to move from offering voice-only services to data and content-based services. The transition means they will have to install real-time, flexible, scalable billing systems capable of handling complex third-party environments. A bigger challenge is...

LAGOS, Nigeria-Six global telecom vendors are vying to build out Nitel's GSM network in Nigeria. Nigeria awarded four GSM licenses earlier this year, and state-owned Nitel received one of the four.U.S.-based Motorola, Germany's Siemens, France's Alcatel, Ericsson of Sweden and Chinese firms Huawei Technologies...

BOSTON-Econet Nigeria Ltd. has paid for its digital mobile license, thus becoming the third company after NITEL and MTN Nigeria Limited to pay for its licenses in Nigeria.Communications Investment Limited, which was one of the three winners at the last digital mobile license auction...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), the South African mobile network operator, recently secured one of four mobile operator licenses in Nigeria. The network must pay a license fee of US$285 million, which could be regarded as either reasonable or overpriced, based on various...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Econet Wireless is gearing up to become one of the leading cellular operators on the African continent. With Botswana and Zimbabwe cellular operations firmly under its wing, it has recently gained further momentum by winning the privatization license bid in Lesotho and...

SANDTON, South Africa-A wave of liberalization and privatization is transforming the cellular market in Africa. Countries riding high on this tide include South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Mauritius, C"te d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.Pyramid Research predicts that only Angola, Burundi, Libya and Gambia will have...