http://www.north-africa.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2012-05-16T21:10:04-06:00 http://www.north-africa.com/naj_economy/industries_markets/1janeleven10.html 2010-01-08T07:00:00-07:00 2010-01-08T07:00:00-07:00 Julien Blin The telecommunications and wireless sectors have been bright spots in North African economies and likely to continue to grow. The success of these sectors comes from a wide consumer adoption first of basic mobile phone services, in particular voice, at very affordable prices, then expanding into new services from SMS texting to ring tones. In this paper, Julien Blin, the North Africa Journal’s technology editor and CEO of JBB Research predicts what is to come in Africa’s wireless and telecom markets this year. (copyright JBB Research: http://www.jbbresearch.com) http://www.north-africa.com/naj_economy/corporate_affairs/1novfour09.html 2009-11-03T05:19:00-07:00 2009-11-03T05:19:00-07:00 jblin On November 4th, 2009, US tech giant HP announced its plan to establish new sales and support subsidiaries in Angola and Libya by 2010. By doing so, HP will increase its footprint across Africa to nine subsidiaries (Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tunisia). http://www.north-africa.com/naj_news/news_na/4septtwo09.html 2009-09-02T10:34:00-06:00 2009-09-02T10:34:00-06:00 Julien Blin Emirates Telecommunications (Etisalat) recently announced that it has enough funds to acquire Morocco's second-largest carrier Meditel, citing bankers close to the deal. Other bidders include companies like Oger Telecom, controlled by the Saudi Oger Group, Qatar Telecommunications (Qtel). According to Reuters, confirmed bids are due by September 14. A decision should be known at the end of September.