Sudan: Zain signs a 4G LTE roaming agreement with the Norwegian group Telenor
The Sudanese subsidiary of Kuwait’s telecoms group Zai...
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MTN Uganda disburses UGX 100 bln in mobile loans in 3 years
MTN Uganda has disbursed more than UGX 100 billion in mobile...
16 October, 2018 / No comment
Kenya: Safaricom Marginally Loses Market Share to Airtel and Telkom in Q4
Safaricom has lost its market share by 1.6 percentage points...
16 October, 2018 / No comment
Uganda: Nigerian Company Buys UTL At Shs268 Billion
The Cabinet has handed Uganda Telecoms Ltd (UTL) to a Nigeri...
16 October, 2018 / No comment
Liquid Telecom appoints new Regional CEO of Southern Africa
Liquid Telecom has appointed Wellington Makamure as the new ...
16 October, 2018 / No comment
Liquid Telecom appoints Adil Youssefi as new Regional CEO of East Africa
Liquid Telecom has appointed Adil Youssefi as the new Region...
16 October, 2018 / No comment
Africa: Four (4) more satellites from Africa before the end of 2018
By 2030 one in five people will be African. Combine the cont...
15 October, 2018 / No comment
Ethiopia: Authority to Use New Software in Revenue Collection
In the efforts of improving its service efficiency and C...
15 October, 2018 / No comment
Guinea inaugurates first-ever Internet exchange point
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea, Kassory Fofana...
15 October, 2018 / No comment
Kenya: Government Invests $ 99 Million in Connecting Districts to National Fiber Network
Senior Information and Communication Technologies Secretary ...
15 October, 2018 / No comment
Zimbabwe: NetOne reportedly in talks with Telkom South Africa
Zimbabwe’s state-owned cellco NetOne is reportedly in disc...
15 October, 2018 / No comment
South African government will hold 4G spectrum auction by April 2019
South Africa will hold a long-delayed auction of 4G mobile s...
12 October, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Huawei building a data centre in South Africa
Huawei is constructing a data centre in South Africa from wh...
12 October, 2018 / No comment
Guinea: The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications puts an end to the activities of the operator Intercel
The mobile operator, Intercel, was ordered to end its activi...
12 October, 2018 / No comment
Angola: Huawei Invests U.S.$60 Million in Angola
Beijing — At least USD 60 million is the amount that was i...
12 October, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Cwele vows ‘no delay’ in releasing 5G spectrum
Government will move with haste to ensure that spectrum sui...
12 October, 2018 / No comment
Namibia’s Paratus taps into R150 million for LTE upgrade
Namibia’s Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service provider Pa...
12 October, 2018 / No comment
Djibouti Data Center selected by Expresso Telecom as strategic hub
Djibouti Data Center has announced that Expresso Telecom Gro...
11 October, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Cell C’s network agreement with MTN is amazing news for its subscribers
In May, Cell C announced that it had “entered into a far...
11 October, 2018 / No comment
Rwanda: Internet Subscribers Up By 25%
The number of people using the internet in Rwanda increased ...
11 October, 2018 / No comment
Zim govt moves to quell price increase protests
Authorities issue threats after price increases, bans protes...
11 October, 2018 / No comment
Malawi to enforce digital payment channels
Mobile money accounts in Malawi have reached 5.1 million and...
11 October, 2018 / No comment
West Africa: UN calls on Senegal, Togo and Burkina Faso to undertake reforms to seize opportunities for e-commerce
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCT...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
Namibia: Paratus launches the second phase of upgrading its mobile LTE network as early as November
High-speed connectivity provider Paratus announces the launc...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria: Airtel partners Coverage Broadband to launch 3flix mobile TV service in Nigeria
Airtel Nigeria has announced a partnership with Phase 3 Tele...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria’s central bank to meet with MTN: sources
Nigeria’s central bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, will me...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Tower operator Helios to enter SA market
Helios Towers wants to enter South Africa within the next y...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
Zimbabwe moves to privatise ailing telcos
Zimbabwe President Emerson Mnangagwa intends to cut state fu...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
Sudan: Telenor enables LTE roaming for Zain Sudan
Norwegian telecoms group Telenor has announced the signing o...
10 October, 2018 / No comment
SAEx commissions Alcatel Submarine Networks to begin survey for cable
Plans to build a new submarine broadband cable from South Af...
09 October, 2018 / No comment
Zimbabwe mobile money tax revised
On the back of increasing criticism from labour and civil ri...
09 October, 2018 / No comment
MTN’s $8bn headache could be reduced
Nigeria’s central bank governor says the $8.1 billion ...
09 October, 2018 / No comment
Zimbabwe hopes to fast track privatisation of TelOne and NetOne
The government of Zimbabwe says it wants to fast track the p...
09 October, 2018 / No comment
Uganda: Facebook and Airtel Uganda team up to improve rural connectivity
Airtel Uganda is partnering with Facebook and East African w...
09 October, 2018 / No comment
Equatorial Guinea announces payment to Orange of the € 95 million needed to get the group out of Getesa
Equatorial Guinea announces the resolution of the litigation...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Cameroon: battle of shareholders for the control of Nexttel, Vietnam’s most successful subsidiary Viettel in Africa
This is again the escalation between the shareholders of mob...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria hints at resolution to MTN dispute
MTN Group and its bankers have provided more documents that...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Zimbabweans engage social networks as OTT dominates
WhatsApp and Facebook account for about 35% of internet usag...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Africa: Net1, Zapper set sights on Africa
Net1 UEPS and QR payments technology company Zapper are join...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Malawi: Airtel deactivates a million unregistered SIMs
Airtel Malawi has revealed that it has now disconnected arou...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Mauritania hoping to attract new player as part of 4G sale
The government of Mauritania has opened an auction for three...
08 October, 2018 / No comment
Sierra Leone: Gambian operator Qcell visits local telecom market
The Gambian mobile operator, Qcell, has obtained a license t...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
Nigeria: Investments in Telecom Sector Now Grow At U.S.$5 Billion Per Quarter – – NCC
Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said investment...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
Africa: SatADSL and Avanti launch commercial Ka-band broadband in Africa
Professional VSAT services provider SatADSL has launched com...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
MTN shares dive 10% on new Nigeria woes
A report on Thursday evening that Nigeria is playing hardba...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
South Africa: Telkom caught up in police deal scandal
Telkom is billing the national police service for two contr...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
Malawi: Airtel Malawi’s operating licence under threat
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) has t...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
MTN launches free data access to digital entertainment
Mobile network operator MTN is offering contract customers f...
05 October, 2018 / No comment
Liquid Telecom announces a reduction of its workforce in South Africa
Liquid Telecom South Africa, the subsidiary of the pan-Afric...
04 October, 2018 / No comment
Telecom Egypt formalises capacity lease agreement with Bharti Airtel for MENA Cable
Telecom Egypt has said that it has signed an agreement with ...
04 October, 2018 / No comment
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