Fast Congo, a subsidiary of Pan-African operator Paratus Group, has inked a long-term agreement with GVA (Group Vivendi Africa), this week, to deliver fibre capacity between Muanda and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to a joint statement, the deal grants GVA access to the use of Fast Congo-operated and maintained...
Congolese cellco Africell has extended its mobile network coverage to three new provinces in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): North Kivu, South Kivu and Tanganyika. According to the operator, the expansion work took 18 months, and included the deployment of 100 cell sites and the development of a data centre in...
NuRAN Wireless wants to strengthen its presence in Africa where it aims to have 10,000 telecoms sites under contract in the coming years. It recently obtained an operating license in Cameroon. Steps are underway to acquire a similar license in Madagascar. Canadian telecom infrastructure provider NuRAN Wireless announced on Thursday, November 16, that its local subsidiary has...
A landmark joint venture agreement (“JVA”) between Africa’s leading data centre operator, Open Access Data Centres (“OADC”), a WIOCC Group company, and TEXAF, one of the DRC’s oldest business groups, was signed this past July. The JVA crystallizes the two parties’ intention to usher in the next evolution of the DRC’s digital ecosystem by launching...
Vodacom is testing 5G connectivity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), under the supervision of the industry regulator, but its primary focus is on improving 4G base station deployment and expanding mobile money capabilities across the populous African country. That’s according to CEO, Khalil Al Americani, talking to ITWeb Africa, in an exclusive...
The new taxes on the services of the telecoms regulator recently introduced by the government are still not passed on to the operators. The latter see it as a ghost of the defunct tax on the Registry of mobile devices. Telecommunications operators are refusing to pay the new taxes imposed on them by the Post and...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is reportedly preparing to implement new taxation parameters for the mobile telecommunications industry, just a few months after public pressure forced authorities to back down on a mobile gadget levy. The central African country’s ICT and telecommunications industries continue to attract investment as companies look to fund technology and...
Paratus new DRC operation will increase capacity and quality connections for millions of people Paratus Group announces its expansion into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This coincides with the news that Paratus has won, together with DRC based Global Broadband Solution (GBS), the government tender to activate a 620-kilometer fiber optic network link between...
A scramble to connect more people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the internet is emerging, with infrastructure and service companies viewing the country as a potentially lucrative market that can also act as a point of connectivity into East and West Africa. Intelsat is the latest internet and communications company to deepen...
President Félix Tshisekedi’s digital development policy is taking shape in DR Congo. A new high-speed telecoms infrastructure will soon cross the country. On Tuesday February 2, the Egyptian company Benya Capital and the Congolese Post and Telecommunications Company (SCPT) finalized the contract to deploy 16,000 kilometers of optical fiber across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The...
