The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has taken an unprecedented step in East Africa by requiring Tanzanian mobile subscribers to register their personal details for their mobile phone SIM cards. This action was reported in this week’s edition of the East African Newspaper and clearly may lead to more and

In the news today, Orange Kenya plans to launch a mobile money transfer service to compete with Safaricom’s M-Pesa and Zain Kenya’s Zap services. Specific details as to when Orange Kenya plans to launch its mobile money transfer service have not been provided  as yet. Mobile money transfers in Kenya

In the newspapers today, Orange Kenya has launched a new tariff, “Niaje”. The new tariff clearly demonstrates that Kenya’s mobile networks are not yet done with their “tariff wars”. Niaje has a very competitive per minute rate of Kes. 4.00 for both Orange to Orange calls and Orange to Telkom