Telecommunications firm, Airtel Nigeria, a subsidiary of Airtel Africa plc, has announced the appointment of C. Surendran as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria with effect from August 1. In addition, Surendran will be appointed to the Executive Committee (ExCo) as Regional Operating Director, reporting to the CEO of Airtel Africa plc, and...
The Ghanaian telecoms market has changed. The State is once again a direct actor. This is good news which, however, raises questions from some local elected officials who want to know the real financial value of this comeback. Ghana’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Ursula Owusu-Ekuful (pictured) said the government of Ghana has acquired mobile operator...
Indian telecommunications operator, Bharti Airtel, may be returning to Ghana in the future, managers of the company have disclosed to government. According to Minister for Communications and Digitalization, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the covid-19 pandemic compelled many telecom operators to pull out from the African sub-region including the recent decision by owners of Airtel and Millicom to...
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...
Airtel Kenya has made a number of improvements to its network in order to meet the regulatory minimum threshold on quality of calls across the country. Airtel Managing Director, Prasanta Das Sarma told Business Daily that 270 sites were upgraded from 2G and 3G sites to 4G while more than 400 sites were added in upcountry towns...
Infratel Corporation Limited and Airtel Networks Zambia Plc have signed a tower colocation agreement that will allow Airtel to lease multiple installation-ready towers across the country’s ten provinces. According to the deal, signed on 22 March, Infratel will avail telecommunications tower infrastructure to Airtel to widen coverage. Infratel Corporation Limited, a company owned by the...
Airtel Africa has made Tanzania one of the markets to which it will pay particular attention during the year 2021. Its local subsidiary is currently in second place in the market in terms of shares. She has a chance to dethrone the historic leader Vodacom. Mobile operator Airtel Tanzania announced the successful modernization of its 4G...
Airtel Africa and Telkom have been placed under scrutiny after allegedly violating the quality of services across their networks. According to Gadgets Africa, The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) believes both telcos failed to meet the minimum 80% threshold on quality of calls across 33 counties in 2020. “Telkom Kenya scored an average mark of 73%...
Airtel Africa has announced that an application for the renewal of its Nigerian subsidiary’s spectrum licences has been approved by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Airtel Nigeria’s 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrum licences were due to expire on 30 November 2021 but have now been extended for a further ten years, to 30 November 2031. Under...
In 2020, demand for broadband connectivity has exploded in Zambia due to Covid-19. According to the telecoms regulator, this need will grow even stronger. Airtel Zambia wants to take advantage of this by acquiring resources to improve its network capabilities. The mobile operator Airtel Zambia has offered itself a frequency spectrum of 20MHz in the 800MHz band. The...
