Eaton Towers buys 3 500 Airtel towers

Eaton Towers has announced an agreement to acquire more than 3 500 telecommunications towers in six countries from Bharti Airtel. Airtel will have a 10-year lease on the towers. Eaton Towers currently owns and operates towers in Ghana, Uganda and South Africa. The new...

All the SAP partner winners …

SAP last week announced the winners at its 2014 SAP Africa Partner of the Year Awards. The New Partner of the Year award nominees were AXEL Enterprise Systems, Conseils Plus and Allos Consulting, with the latter coming up tops on the night. In the Strategic Industry...

Weak storage demand drives revenue fall

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues fell -1,4% year-over-year to nearly $5,9-billion during the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14). This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the...

PC decline halted in MEA

The Middle East and Africa PC market brought seven successive quarters of year-on-year declines to a halt in Q2 2014, posting long-awaited annual growth of 2,2% to total 4,5-million units. Compiled by global advisory and consulting services firm International Data...

Mxit first to launch Oju Afro Emoticons

Oju, the world’s first black emoticons, will be available for the first time in Africa on the Mxit platform. That means the almost 5-million Mxit users currently active in South Africa will now be able to express themselves in a more creative way – with the help of...

John Craig rolls out network in three weeks

Menswear retailer John Craig has rolled out a new communications platform to 85 stores in South Africa in just three weeks, providing increased reliability at lower cost. “Our parent company’s business strategy required us to consolidate on a single platform,” says...