Algerian telecommunications services provider Djezzy has completed a trial of Nokia ultra-high network capacity technology initiated to meet the demand from increasing mobile traffic. Djezzy trialled Nokia’s Wavence microwave transport solution, with a capacity of 8.5Gbps over a distance of 5.7km. With its reduced latency and high capacity, the partners said the solution will allow...
Following the departure of Ooredoo Algeria’s CEO Nikolai Beckers in late February 2020, the company has announced the appointment of Bassam Yousef Al Ibrahim as Deputy General Manager, effective 1 March 2020. Local media reported that the order to immediately expel and deport Beckers was issued directly by Algerian President Abdelmajid Taboun in response to...
The Egyptian company Global Telecom Holding (GTH) has agreed to sell the rest of its shares in Djezzy (Algerian mobile phone operator), including the underwater fiber optic system MedCable, to the Dutch telecom group VEON Ltd . The operation, which is valued at 70.195 billion Algerian dinars (585,334,410 USD), is part of a larger-scale procedure. Indeed,...
Algeria and Tunisia have committed to ending roaming surcharges. At the 3rd joint Technical Committee for Cooperation in Post and ICT, held recently in Algiers, Houda-Imane Feraoun, Algeria’s Minister of Post and ICT, said regulatory authorities of both countries will ensure their trade is transparent to customers traveling on both sides of the border –...
The Minister of Post, Telecommunications, Technology and Digital, Houda-Imane Faraoun, revealed on January 13, 2019 that the Algerian Telecom group will invest at least 207 billion Algerian dinars (US $1.7 billion) in telecoms during the year 2019. Speaking on Channel III radio’s “Guest of the Editor” broadcast , the minister said 184 billion dinars (US $ 1.7 Billion)...
