NIGERIA

Nigeria's advertising industry worth N500bn, says APCON
Under a current assessment by the sector operators, the worth of Nigeria's advertising industry has been put at over N500bn (about R34bn).

ZIMBABWE

Winners emerge at Zim advertising awards
[Dumisani Ndlela] DDH&M dominated Zimbabwe's annual Ngoma Advertising Awards ceremony held on Friday March 28, 2008 in Harare, taking the most sector awards as well as the overall prize – the campaign of the year award.

EGYPT

IBM builds state-of-the-art data centre for Telecom Egypt
IBM and Telecom Egypt have announced the construction of an innovative, state-of-the-art data centre for Telecom Egypt that includes the world's most sophisticated energy-efficient "green" technologies.

New investment in TEAMS
[Carole Kimutai] Jamii Telecommunications Ltd (JTL), a subsidiary of AdGroup, has made a strategic investment in TEAMS project to complement its metro fibre network that will allow users reliable and flexible services with high-speed access to the internet.

UGANDA

Uganda to host COMESA telecom regulators
[David Muwanga] The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) is organising a one-day symposium to be attended by telecommunications regulators from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states. This is going to be one of the activities of the commission that would be marking its tenth anniversary on 22 May 2008. Other activities would include launching of a new corporate identity and the logo.

FOSSFA Conference roots for Knowledge Economy
The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) recently hosted the Third African Conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the Digital Commons "Idlelo 3" at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD II) in Dakar, Senegal, from 16 - 20 March 2008.

NIGERIA

Court orders MTN, Celtel to compensate subscribers
[Remmy Nweke] A Federal High Court in Lagos, Nigeria, has insisted that the two-some Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) operators, MTN and Celtel, must compensate their subscribers over poor quality of service experienced as at 31 January 2008.

KENYA

Now Kenyans can pay mobile bills online
[Carole Kimutai] GTV has entered into a subscription payment deal with PostaPay and subscribers anywhere in Kenya can now pay their subscriptions online via over 200 branches countrywide.