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Communication / ICT in Mozambique

  • Africa,Protect Refugees With Mobile Banking

    BOTSWANA, 2016/02/08 "Mean spirited", "inhumane" and desecrating the spirit of the Refugee Convention are some of the milder criticisms levelled at Denmark's harsh new asylum laws, passed last week. Part new measures is a decision to strip new arrivals of any cash and valuables worth additional than 10,000 kroner (US$1,450), purportedly to pay for their upkeep. Switzerland and some southern German states have introduced similar policies. It's a move that reflects the fragmenting world of European migration policy, lacking in solidarity, empathy and basic human decency. But what of the financial implications for asylum seekers?
  • Telecommunications operators in Mozambique have to share infrastructure

    MAPUTO CITY, 2015/11/22 Mozambique’s parliament Wednesday gave general approval to a government proposition to amend the Telecommunications Act that requires operators to share infrastructure, the Mozambican press reported. The Minister of Transport and Communications, Carlos Mesquita said on presenting the proposition that technological changes had led to a new paradigm in telecommunications, which was technological convergence. “This convergence,” the minister said, “involves the use of a single infrastructure that is shared, whereas before each operator had to have equipment, communication channels and an independent system.”
  • Internet is going mobile

    BOTSWANA, 2012/07/30 As people the world over go online, the majority of users' primary means of Internet access will be their mobile phones. This is according to the new “Traffic and Market Statement” by Ericsson, which looks at the mobile landscape for the next five years. Ericsson's chief of strategic marketing and intelligence, Patrick Cerwall, says: “The Internet is going mobile. Mobile PC and tablet subscriptions will, by 2017, be on the same level as fixed broadband subscriptions.”