Ethiopia’s sole telecom services provider Ethio Telecom has issued an invitation to tower manufacturers in Ethiopia to submit their expressions of interest (EOIs). Ethio Telecom announced it is looking for tower manufacturers who can deliver according to set technical requirements, which can be collected from the headquarters of the company. The invitation will remain open...
Since last year, the demand for high quality Internet connectivity in Egypt is no longer mainly expressed by urban populations. In the hinterland where we understood the importance of the Internet during the Covid-19 crisis, needs are growing. Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technologies, Amr Talaat, has announced that 1,300 villages will soon be connected...
MTN has been ranked as the best mobile network in South Africa – ahead of Vodacom, rain, Telkom and Cell C – according to the latest MyBroadband Insights Mobile Network Quality Report. The report is based on 349,575 speed tests that were performed by thousands of users across the country. The research shows that South Africa...
While South African mobile operators are making moves to reduce data prices, the country still ranks among the bottom half of countries with the world’s most expensive mobile data prices. According to the Cable.co.uk’s latest Worldwide Mobile Data Pricing 2021 report, which measures the average cost of 1GB of mobile data in 230 countries, SA ranks...
Buoyed by the expansion of its fibre infrastructure, which helped win over new data subscribers, Airtel Malawi has recorded almost 50% growth in revenue from mobile broadband services. This has helped to steady the company as shareholders demand it delist from the Malawi Stock Exchange and media reports in early April detailed the threat of...
Despite totally opposing views on Huawei, US and South African telecom regulators have decided to learn from each other. The two bodies thus express the importance they attach to the development of their respective telecoms market, where 5G is already accessible to consumers. The South African Independent Communications Authority (ICASA) and the United States Federal Communications...
Over the years, the Senegalese telecoms regulator has made the quality of telecom services a fundamental concern. Mobile number portability, introduced in 2015, marked a turning point in this fight. Returned to the spotlight in October 2020, it is now attracting special attention from the regulator. Senegal’s National Telecommunications Company (Sonatel) received a formal notice from the...
MTN Group is valuing its mobile money arm at R75-billion, joining African wireless carriers planning to list these businesses in a region that has more mobile money accounts than anywhere else in the world. MTN’s valuation of its unit follows Mastercard and TPG Holdings investing US$300-million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business at a $2.65-billion (R39-billion)...
Emerging fibre and wireless broadband service provider Herotel is positioning to become a national player, as competition in SA’s fibre market heats up. So say analysts, after the fibre network operator (FNO) announced revised fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) pricing, including a 50Mbps symmetrical uncapped option for R499 per month. According to the FNO, all of its products...
State-run mobile telecommunications firm, NetOne says last year’s strategic expansion into outback markets resulted in 500 000 additional subscribers of the company’s mobile money platform OneMoney. NetOne is the only mobile network operator to have increased market share during the year ended 31 December 2020, according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe...
