January 2011 Blog Posts (8)

Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (“OTH”) announced that it has successfully obtained the support of its Senior Secured Lenders for relief from representations, warranties, and covenants in the credit agreements as they relate to Orascom Telecom Algeria (“OTA”), in order to provide the Group with greater flexibility while it assesses its alternative options relating to OTA.

Aldo Mareuse, Group Chief Financial Officer, commented: “This is an important step to enable OTH to be in a…

IBM  and Bharti airtel today announced the completion of contract negotiations for technology services spanning 16 African countries. As part of the 10-year agreement signed in December 2010, IBM will deploy and manage the information technology (IT) infrastructure and applications to support airtel's goal of providing affordable and innovative mobile services throughout Africa, the world's fastest growing mobile market.

IBM will consolidate and transform the 16 different IT…

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a $25 million equity investment in Helios Towers Africa Limited (HTA) to help the company build and maintain mobile phone towers in several countries across sub-Saharan Africa, increasing mobile phone coverage and reducing communication costs in the region.

 

HTA is building a pan-Africa tower company starting in Ghana and expanding into other countries such as Tanzania. The company leases space on its mobile towers to telecom…

Princesse Holding Group and Qatar Telecom (Qtel) announced today the finalisation of their partnership in Tunisiana which sees Princesse Holding taking up 25% of Tunisiana’s shares with National Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C. (“Wataniya”) a 52.5% subsidiary of Qtel, increasing its stake from 50% to 75%.

Under the shareholders’ agreement signed today, Princesse Holding’s Chairman, Mr. Mohamed Sakher Al…

Dear all

We are currently recruiting on urgent basis for Telecom Engineers  to undertake some projects in Uganda &  Nigeria -Professionals from these countries are highly encouraged to apply. CVs/Resumes to reach us

by 8th January 2011 via eric@epic.co.tz; Cc:msamatie@epic.co.tz

1. SITE ENGINEER (Uganda based -Prefarably Ugandan prefessionals)



The job can be in area like Installation…

Dear all

We are currently recruiting on urgent basis for Telecom Engineers  to undertake some projects in Uganda &  Nigeria -Professionals from these countries are highly encouraged to apply. CVs/Resumes to reach us by 8th January 2011 via eric@epic.co.tz; Cc:msamatie@epic.co.tz

1. SITE ENGINEER (Uganda based -Prefarably Ugandan prefessionals)



The job can be in area like Installation Technician…