The first time I encountered or even heard of MXit was last year in October 2009 at the Mobile Web Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. A presentation was being given by the MXit CEO Herman Heunis that plotted the rise and rise of the mobile social networking community. At

In the late part of last week, both Orange and Safaricom in Kenya posted full page ads in the national newspapers promoting their own versions of DSTVmobile offers. Both ads are clearly targeting the impending South Africa’s Football World Cup that starts in June 2010 to boost sales. Previously, only

In the media this past week, Zain Kenya has launched “Jikonnect”, a range of low-cost (and apparently permanent) tariffs for voice calls on and off their network. The way Jikonnect works is that on-network calls between the hours of 6.00 pm and 6.00 am are only Kes. 3.00 per minute