Ding Dong! We have won the first round and it is a battle which we must keep pushing on. Orange has apparently adjusted its speed caps on  

According to Wall Street Journal, Facebook could file papers for its IPO as early as Wednesday next week. The timing is still being discussed and Morgan Stanley is close to being chosen  

Zantel Tanzania has re-branded its Z-Pesa service. The service is now known as Ezy Pesa, has been upgraded and comes with a new  bill payment module. Bundled on the Ezy Pesa service is a micro insurance option allowing users to buy daily or monthly insurance premiums. Daily premiums start at KSh150 and a monthly premium of KSh4,500 giving a policy holder. 

yuMobile is rolling-out Relationship Centres in Kenya. Tod saw the opening of the first centre in Nairobi Central Business District. The Centre is the second of several new-look relationship centres to be rolled out countrywide as part of yuMobile’s expansion plan intended to serve its rapidly growing number of subscribers countrywide. The new-look. 

Google has announced a new mobile version of Google Trader in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda . In a blog post, the search company say that it has ”reorganized the mobile site to reduce clutter and emphasize the most important information”. Google Trader is now also panning out well on phones with smaller screens, according to the blog. 

A new research by Portland (a communication research firm) indicates that users in Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and Morocco tweets most. The research titled How Africa Tweets and released today shows that most users of Twitter in Africa access it from a mobile phone (57%) while the 20 – 29 years age group dominate the social media. 

YoungAfricaLive (YAL) has finally been launched by Praekelt Foundation and Safaricom. Kenya is the second country in East Africa after Tanzania but third after South Africa also which used to enjoy the mobile community services live. YAL Tanzania was launched on 1 December 2011. The YoungAfricaLive (YAL) portal gives the youth a platform to speak their. 

Orange Kenya launched its unlimited data bundles last week. There was a disclaimer which the company looked to hide as much as possible. First things first. In the “unlimited data bundles”, Orange is offering an unlimited data bundle for 7 days at Ksh 990 and one for 30 days at Ksh 2,990. There is a fair usage policy disclaimer which means. 

The government of Zambia has said that it will take over the running of Zamtel for the time being before floating shares to the public.
 Finance Minister, Alexander Chikwanda, is quoted by Times of Zambia as having informed journalists at a media briefing  that “Zamtel was a viable company
 which the previous Government wanted to give away. 

Tanzania’s Zamtel has moved from 100, 000 to a million customers in less than 12 months. Information posted on Zambian Watchdog website quotes Zamtel Chief Commercial Officer, Amon Jere, attributing the one million milestone to the leadership. Zamtel has over the past 12 months been investing on network expansion. The firm has increased its GSM.