The Liberian government aims to make digital technology one of the pillars of the country’s socio-economic development. Last July, the executive revealed that it was preparing the launch of a national digital transformation project, in partnership with the telecoms regulator. Liberia will soon connect to a second submarine fiber optic cable to boost its broadband capabilities. The...
Liberia’s only wholesale infrastructure provider, CSquared, has announced that it is using FSP 3000 open optical transport technology from fibre networking solutions company Adtran to bring high-speed broadband connectivity to homes and businesses across Liberia. With comprehensive fibre assurance, Adtran says its solution enables CSquared to rapidly deploy an open-access 350-kilometre backbone connecting Liberia to...
About 62% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lives in rural areas. These areas represent a market niche with high growth potential for telecom operators, as they are only weakly covered by telecom networks. Telecom operator Orange Liberia has begun implementing a service agreement signed last November with Vanu, Inc. to extend its mobile network to...
The African Development Fund (ADF) has approved $3.9 million grant to finance the upgrade of Liberia’s payments infrastructure and systems. The project’s primary objective is to strengthen the payments ecosystem in Liberia for increased efficiency and to foster growth and innovation. It targets the automated cheque processing and automated clearing house and real-time gross settlement...
In 2014, Liberia had already benefited from a digital infrastructure project funded by the United States. The project aimed to connect 51 Liberian government institutions to reliable high-speed networks. US President Joe Biden said last week that his government was working with Kenyan company CSquared to set up a nationwide fiber optic network in Liberia. This investment...
The Afriland First Bank in Liberia has launched a Mobile Money banking transaction service with Lonestar cell MTN, ‘Push and Pull mobile money service, with the aim of making banking more accessible and convenient for its clients. The MTN Push and Pull service, according to Lonestar Cell MTN Mobile Money Project Lead Manju Konneh, is...
For the first time in the history of mobile money in Liberia, Lonestar Cell MTN subscribers can now exchange US Dollars for Liberian dollars within their mobile money wallet. Manju Konneh, Project Lead for Lonestar Cell MTN Mobile Finance Services, said that the company is solving a problem for customers. Some Agents that do not...
Since President Weah came to power in 2018, the government has multiplied initiatives to make the public telecom company more dynamic. One of them led in 2020 to the modification of the telecoms law which transforms the national operator. The incumbent Liberian telecommunications operator LIBTELCO (Liberia Telecommunication Corporation) is getting a makeover. The state-owned company will now...
In the 11 January edition of FrontPageAfrica online, the newspaper reported that a customer, seeking to register his SIM at our Broad Street, Monrovia location was not able to update his SIM Card because he presented a passport and not National ID card. The article also reported that Lonestar Cell MTN staff accept $5 USD...
In 2017, the government of Liberia decided to take advantage of CSquared’s telecoms infrastructure to accelerate the modernization of public service in Monrovia. This time, he has the ambition to reach the whole country. The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) granted wholesale telecom infrastructure provider CSquared a national license on Tuesday (November 2nd). The signing of the related...
