Transmission agency, Shumuk Industries clash over power lines

By Ibrahim KasitaTHE Uganda Transmission Company Ltd (UETCL) and Shumuk Aluminium Industries have clashed over Plot 148-152 on Makabya Road in Nakawa, Kampala. The aluminium giant is constructing a recreation park and an assembling plant for its pre-fabricated aluminum products and offices on the plot. This is said to affect the earth works around the UETCL tower, compromising the stability of the electricity pylons...

du Blocks Skype

UAE telecom firm du has completed the blockage of the telephone aspect of VoIP provider Skype. Subscribers to the operator are now no longer able to make, or receive, calls to mobiles or fixed landlines from their computers. PC-to-PC calls are still possible. All access to Skype for subscribers to Etisalat, the UAE’s other telecom operator, has been blocked for over two years. The ban comes as per the...

TCS expands services to MetroPCS

TeleCommunication Systems has signed a multi-year contract agreement to provide Hosted Mobile Positioning Center and Hosted Position Determining Entity services for E9-1-1 to MetroPCS customers in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. MetroPCS is provider wireless broadband personal communication services. According to Telecommunication Systems (TCS), its E9-1-1 solution enables wireless operators to comply with...

Nigeria’s advertisement expenditure to register $862.1 mln in 2008

LAGOS,(Xinhua) Expenditure on advertisement in Nigeria may hit 100 billion naira (about 862.1 million U.S. dollars) in 2007 up from the 50 billion naira (about 431.1 million U.S. dollars) recorded in 2008, according to an official with the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON). Garba Kankarofi, the registrar of APCON, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the projection for the year was 80...