Nigeria: High Broadband Rate, Slow Connectivity Cut Mobile Phone Shipment By 6.4%
Shipment of mobile phones to Nigeria in quarter one fell by ...
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South Africa: Vox Telecom said to be up for sale
Vox Telecom shareholders are looking to sell the South Afri...
21 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: No improvement in SA’s digital ranking
South Africa has been ranked 49th out of 63 economies in the...
21 June, 2018 / No comment
Zambia: Uzi, ZICTA bump heads over licence conditions
There are still unresolved issues between Zambia’s ICT...
21 June, 2018 / No comment
Zimbabwe cuts mobile data tariffs
Zimbabwe has cut mobile data tariffs from 12.5 cents to 5 ce...
21 June, 2018 / No comment
Egypt: Amr Talaat replaces Yasser ElKady as minister of telecommunications and presents his priorities for the sector
Amr Talaat is the new Egyptian Minister of Communications an...
20 June, 2018 / No comment
Ghana: AirtelTigo CEO resigns
AirtelTigo has announced that its CEO Roshi Motman has decid...
20 June, 2018 / No comment
East Africa rallies to end forced roaming
The East African Organisation of Communications (EACO) has c...
20 June, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria to hold public inquiry on MTN’s acquisition of Visafone spectrum
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced p...
20 June, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria: New MTRs come into force on 1 July
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has published a...
20 June, 2018 / No comment
Ethiopia to split telecoms monopoly in two to spur competition
Ethiopia plans to sell a 30 to 40 percent stake in its state...
19 June, 2018 / No comment
Ghana: Google to open artificial intelligence research center in Accra by end of year
The American company Google announces the opening, by the en...
19 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Dark Fibre Africa sees 5G as big growth opportunity
Dark Fibre Africa sees 5G broadband as a big growth opportun...
19 June, 2018 / No comment
Africa: Internet Solutions announces new LTE data package
Internet Solutions (IS) has expanded its Wholesale LTE servi...
19 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Amazon Web Services sets up SA points of presence
The world’s largest cloud computing provider, Amazon Web ...
19 June, 2018 / No comment
Africa: Eaton Towers said to postpone Johannesburg, London listing
African telecommunications company Eaton Towers has decided...
19 June, 2018 / No comment
Congo has launched the call for tenders for the construction of fiber optic links with Cameroon and the CAR
At a press briefing on 13 June 2018, the Minister of Posts, ...
18 June, 2018 / No comment
Ghanaian telecoms monitoring platform installation reaches completion
Ghana’s ICT ministry says it has completed the install...
18 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Minister Siyabonga Cwele Elected Chairperson of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation
The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Dr S...
18 June, 2018 / No comment
Vodacom bosses’ big payday
Vodacom Group CEO was paid R50.3-million in pre-tax salary ...
18 June, 2018 / No comment
Kenya introduces ‘robin hood’ tax on mobile money transfers
Kenyans will pay more for mobile money transfer if new tax m...
18 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Dark Fibre Africa expands into Zim amid acquisition rumours
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) has confirmed the launch of its busi...
18 June, 2018 / No comment
Benin: Isocel announces its entry into the home-based fiber optic internet market
Internet service provider Isocel announces the signature of ...
15 June, 2018 / No comment
Angola: SISTEC has been chosen to test the service of the new Al Yah satellite 3
Angolan satellite Internet connectivity provider Sistemas, T...
15 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Dark Fibre Africa sees 5G as big growth opportunity
Dark Fibre Africa sees fifth-generation (5G) wireless broad...
15 June, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria Will Attain 30% Broadband Penetration By 2018, NCC Insists
As part of efforts of the federal government to provide affo...
15 June, 2018 / No comment
Rwanda ploughs US$30 million into innovation
The government of Rwanda has launched a new US$30 million Re...
15 June, 2018 / No comment
Africa: NuRAN Selected by Africa Mobile Networks for Multiple African Countries
NuRAN Wireless Inc. is pleased to announce the signature o...
15 June, 2018 / No comment
MTN Nigeria plans sale of 30% to retail investors in IPO – report
MTN Nigeria may sell some 30 percent of its ordinary shares ...
14 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Telkom wants spectrum to be released – But where it goes must be decided by economic growth
Telkom’s primary concern when it comes to spectrum is that...
14 June, 2018 / No comment
Ethiopia’s targets foreign investment to ease currency shortage
Ethiopia’s government has explained that privatisation of ...
14 June, 2018 / No comment
Egypt readies Anti-Cybercrime law
Egypt’s government is on the verge of implementing the...
14 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Amazon and Microsoft talk up South African data centres
Michael Needham, senior manager for solutions architecture i...
14 June, 2018 / No comment
MTN to launch in Namibia in August: report
South African mobile group MTN says that it is planning to l...
14 June, 2018 / No comment
East African states will definitely solve the problem of forced mobile roaming at borders by the end of the year
By the end of 2018, people living on the borders of Kenya, T...
13 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa; Freshworks Accelerates International Growth with Market Expansion in South Africa
Freshworks Inc (www.Freshworks.com)., a leading provider of ...
13 June, 2018 / No comment
Seacom upgrades subsea cable
Seacom has upgraded its submarine cable system that connect...
13 June, 2018 / No comment
Uganda ‘feels’ Tanzania’s tightening grip on social media
Jamii Forums, a popular blogging site in Tanzania, has cited...
13 June, 2018 / No comment
Zambia: Afrimax says Vodafone Zambia ownership to change
Afrimax, the owner of wireless broadband operator Vodafone Z...
13 June, 2018 / No comment
Kenya: Telkom, Airtel abandon merger talks
Telkom Kenya and Bharti Airtel’s local mobile unit Airtel ...
13 June, 2018 / No comment
Ghana: Gov’t Sued Over $89m Telco Deal
An attempt by the government to implement the controversial ...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria: NCC gives telecom operators until July 2018 to settle their tax debts
Umar Garba Danbatta, Vice President of the Nigeria Communica...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
Africa’s mobile market remains flat at 52.1 mln in Q1
Africa’s overall mobile phone market remained flat in ...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Commission clears Vodacom, Rain deal
Following complaints lodged by Cell C and MTN, the Competit...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
Kenya: Telkom Kenya stretches 4G network to cover 30 sites
Telkom Kenya added several new areas to its local 4G network...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: ICASA ordered to halt the implementation of new data expiry rules
The high court in Johannesburg has ordered telecoms regulato...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
Malawi: Telekom Networks Malawi expects higher after-tax profit
According to its latest stock exchange cautionary, Telekom N...
12 June, 2018 / No comment
Telkom CEO writes open letter to President Ramaphosa on fixing South Africa’s economy
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has written an open letter to South ...
11 June, 2018 / No comment
Chad is looking for a fourth telecoms operator
The Chadian government has decided to add a fourth mobile ph...
11 June, 2018 / No comment
Kenya: Kenyan, Chinese govts start 10,000 Villages Digital TV Project
The Kenyan ICT ministry and the Chinese Government have begu...
11 June, 2018 / No comment
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