AfricaCom Awards 2011 / Orange wins “Best New Service” award at AfricaCom 2011
11 Nov 2011 05:56 Africa/Lagos AfricaCom Awards 2011 / Orange wins “Best New Service” award at AfricaCom 2011 CAPE-TOWN, November 11, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Orange (http://www.orange.com) won the “Best New Service” award at the AfricaCom Awards 2011 . The awards gala dinner took place on Wednesday, 9 November in Cape Town, South Africa. The awards are a unique annual celebration of innovation and the highest achievements across the communications industry in Africa. An independent panel of judges adjudicates. Logo: http://www.apo-mail.org/orange-logo.jpg Orange won the “Best New Service” award for Surf & Pay, a service that aims to facilitate access to the Internet. Surf & Pay is a system for sharing and re-charging Internet access, designed for hotels and internet cafés that want to provide their customers with Internet access using WiFi. It also allows individuals to share the costs of broadband Internet access with their neighbours, using a payment interfa...