Libyans spark cellphone revolution
Friday, December 03, 2010
What seems certain however is that soon customers will be laughing all the way to the talk-time kiosks as has started happening. The stage for this happy state of affairs was set early this year when the government sold 75 percent of its stake in the Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel), the country's largest but up to that point virtually insolvent telecommunications company.
The buyers were the little-known Lap Green Networks of Libya. Up to that point, Zamtel's mobile telephone operation-Cell-Z- was the smallest and arguably the tamest and shakiest of the three.
The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...