Burundi recorded the strongest growth in Viettel’s African markets in the first half of 2017
Of the four African subsidiaries of Viettel Group, the telec...
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South Sudan: Niletel, the public telecoms operator in which the state holds 25% of shares, is born
The government of the Republic of South Sudan has launched i...
21 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Orange appoints Mark McCallum as SA Country Manager
Orange Business Services has appointed Mark McCallum, as the...
21 July, 2017 / No comment
Ghana’s govt rejects calls for 4G license price slash
US$67.5m price tag “reasonable” says countryR...
21 July, 2017 / No comment
Cameroon: Vodafone agrees network sharing deal with CamTel to expand 4G coverage
Vodafone Cameroon, part of the Afrimax Group, has announced ...
21 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Vodacom thumbs its nose at weak SA economy
Despite weak economic conditions, Vodacom has delivered an ...
20 July, 2017 / No comment
Zambia: Airtel Zambia upgrades network to support MSMEs
Airtel Zambia executives say the company has invested US$50m...
20 July, 2017 / No comment
South African govt may merge Broadband Infraco with Sentech
The South African government is planning to merge state-owne...
20 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria: NCC approves Etisalat Nigeria becoming 9mobile
Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has approved the change o...
20 July, 2017 / No comment
Kenya: Vodacom minority shareholders approve Safaricom transaction
Vodacom Group has announced that minority shareholders have ...
20 July, 2017 / No comment
C2C ‘Smarter Infrastructure’ and FTTH ‘Tomorrow Now’ to collocate in Cape Town 3rd, 4th 5th October 2017
At the beginning of October 2017, Extensia ltd and the FTTH ...
20 July, 2017 / No comment
Intelsat makes new leadership appointments
Intelsat announced three new leadership appointments expecte...
19 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: SEACOM kicks off fibre rollout in the south of Johannesburg
SEACOM is bringing its high-speed fibre Internet access serv...
19 July, 2017 / No comment
Vodacom to extend mobile money to new markets
Vodacom Group sees the expansion of mobile banking services...
19 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Internet access in SA: rural areas falling far behind
Internet penetration has reached 75% of the population in t...
19 July, 2017 / No comment
Namibia edges closer to telco tariff limits
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) ha...
19 July, 2017 / No comment
Burkina Faso: Onatel details network achievements, deployment plans
Maroc Telecom-backed telco the National Office of Telecommun...
19 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: MTN opens its fibre network to others
MTN South Africa said on Monday that it plans to open its f...
18 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Link Africa sells FTTH assets to Vumatel
Vumatel, one of the earliest and now largest players in the...
18 July, 2017 / No comment
Liquid Telecom raises US$700m loan financing package
Liquid Telecommunications Financing Plc, part of pan-African...
18 July, 2017 / No comment
Tanzania slaps six operators with hefty SIM registration fines
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has ...
18 July, 2017 / No comment
Malawi: US$23m fibre backbone project underway in Malawi
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), in ass...
18 July, 2017 / No comment
Togo sets up new holding company Togocom
The government of the tiny African state of Togo has announc...
18 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria: ICT Infrastructure Deficit Greatest Challenge to Nigeria’s Development – Minister
The Minister of Communications Adebayo Shittu has said the g...
17 July, 2017 / No comment
Kenya Tops World’s Spam Scam Targets
Kenyan mobile phone subscribers rank highest in the list of ...
17 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Gartner-IT Spend To Increase by R226 billion in 2017
According to Gartner, the South African IT market is likely ...
17 July, 2017 / No comment
Kenya: Free domestic mobile money transfer now available in Kenya
Visa announced today that consumers of a Visa-led bank partn...
17 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa ranked low in new digital competitiveness report
South Africa has been placed alongside countries such as Pe...
17 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria: Etisalat Nigeria to rebrand as 9mobile
Nigeria’s fourth largest cellco by subscribers, Emerging M...
17 July, 2017 / No comment
Cameroon: Camtel and GTS-Infotel Ratify Interconnection Agreement to Boost IP Telephony
Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel), the incumbent operator...
07 July, 2017 / No comment
World: SpaceX launches Intelsat 35e satellite on third try
Intelsat35e satellite, the fourth of the Intelsat EpicNG hig...
07 July, 2017 / No comment
Africa: Rwanda, Mauritius Top Africa in 2017 Global Cyber Security Index
Rwanda is one of the African countries that are most committ...
07 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Icasa ‘dithering’ on mobile data prices
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an or...
07 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: ICASA suspends CEO Pongwana
The Council of the Independent Communications Authority of S...
07 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria relies on ICTs to tackle corruption and reduce spending
In order to reduce its spending and the level of corruption ...
06 July, 2017 / No comment
Uganda: telecoms regulator launches new ICT project financing offer
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has launched a ne...
06 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria: Regulators intervene to save Etisalat Nigeria from collapse
The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has revealed tha...
06 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Cape Town Mayor welcomes Amazon to ‘digital city of Africa’
The Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille, has welcomed Amaz...
06 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Telkom/Openserve and Nokia trial 500Mbps G.fast
Nokia and Telkom South Africa’s wholesale division Openser...
06 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria: Etisalat appoints new board of directors, top management, as NCC assures subscribers of network integrity
WorldStage Newsonline– Etisalat Nigeria has constitu...
05 July, 2017 / No comment
Kenya: Safaricom Digs in Over Plan to Tap Telephones
Leading mobile phone service provider Safaricom has explaine...
05 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: MTN hires group procurement chief
The MTN group is getting a new procurement and supply chain...
05 July, 2017 / No comment
Madagascar: Internet Solutions deploys first PoP in Madagascar
Pan-African telecommunications service provider Internet Sol...
05 July, 2017 / No comment
Benin’s MTN, Glo fined total of USD909,000 for QoS breaches
The Republic of Benin’s Electronic Communications & Po...
05 July, 2017 / No comment
Africa: Intelsat, Gilat unveil Mobile Reach Solar 3G Solution for MNOs in remote areas
Intelsat S.A., operator of the world’s first Globalized Ne...
04 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigerian It Agency Threatens to Blacklist, Prosecute It Service Providers
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITD...
04 July, 2017 / No comment
Nigeria: After receiving $2.1m in funding, Nigerian startup set to upend ISP market
Founder of Tizeti Network Services, Kendall Ananyi, a Maste...
04 July, 2017 / No comment
South Africa: Blue Label Telecoms sets out its game plan
Blue Label Telecoms’ planned R1.9bn acquisition of handse...
04 July, 2017 / No comment
Africa shows low growth in fixed broadband penetration
In Africa, 20 million households and businesses will have wi...
04 July, 2017 / No comment
Uganda: iWayAfrica Uganda announces new MD
Converged ICT solutions provider iWayAfrica Uganda has appoi...
04 July, 2017 / No comment
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