Nigeria fines 4 mobile phone carriers $7.3M

None of Africa’s wealthiest people has made a commitment to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge- yet. This is highly unlikely to happen anytime soon, for while Africans in general are an extremely charitable lot, only a tiny fraction of its ultra high net worth individuals are significant givers.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia plans to lift a ban on the entry of new mobile phone companies to increase competition and

Ever been in a crowded place and you can't get service on your phone to make a call? Sometimes there are too many phones on your service provider's network. Smartphones have made the situation worse, because watching videos and chatting on FaceTime hogs the network.

T-Mobile became the last major US carrier to support the iPhone today. It will begin selling the phone in stores on April 12.

ost Americans now have mobile phones, and a Nielsen Mobile report last year found that nearly one in five of us have cut the cord, abandoning our landline service entirely. Danny Kessler of Tempe, Arizona, is one of those people, except he has gone the next step: He recently gave up his cell-phone contract too. Kessler's no hermit: He's a 27-year-old personal-safety instructor who has to be in touch with his clients. He just does all his telephoning via the internet. Today Kessler is an anomaly, but internet telephony (a.k.a.

Apple Inc's shareholders have been hit by one of the bloodiest weeks in the history of the stock, but wider fallout from such weakness might be more important to the long-term value of their investments.

This is one of those pieces where, after reading it you say "Damn, why didn't I think of that!".. By demonstrating how Google is transforming the telecomm landscape, I may actually save up to $5,700 for at least a quarter of the readers who are perusing this blog.