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Telkom  
Telkom provides public switched communications services in South Africa, providing fixed-line voice services, fixed-line data services, directory and wireless data services through our TDS Directory Operations (Pty) Limited and Swiftnet subsidiaries, respectively and mobile communications services, including voice services, data services and value-added services and handset sales through our 50% join venture, Vodacom.
   
 
Tanzania focuses on mining as a priority for growth
Mineral Sector Development Project to streamline resources management...
EAC trade grows by 19%
Trade among Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda has grown by about $22 million since 2005...
Pamodzi launches Africa's biggest private equity fund
$1.3 billion resources fund supported by a consortium of US investors...
Twenty buses to arrive in Liberia soon
20 used buses donated by the Government of Spain...
Ghana energy sector to receive US$210 million from World Bank
Project to increase electricity access, supply, and reliability...
SPDC spends $85 million on Nigerian community development
On projects between 2005 and 2006, with $126 million spent on rural infrastructure...
Telkom wireless service attracts 150,000 subscribers
Expectations for at least one million subscribers by the end of the year...
Uganda internet project boosted
Construction of East African Submarine Cable System set to begin in the next few weeks...
     

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