MTN Group has rebranded its digital wholesale and infrastructure services firm MTN GlobalConnect (MTN GC) to Bayobab. The new name is inspired by the Baobab tree – which MTN Group says is recognised as the ‘tree of life’. Similalrly, it says, Bayobab is the enabler of the digital connectivity value chain across the African continent....
MTN GlobalConnect (MTN GC) rolled out over 2 000 km of new fibre in the first quarter of this year, bringing its total inventory of proprietary fibre to over 107 000km. This, as the company is scaling MTN Group’s fibre ambitions to meet the growing demand for international connectivity. MTN GC, an MTN Group operating...
MTN GlobalConnect and Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS) have renewed their partnership to collaborate in international mobility and connectivity for Africa. In a statement today, the two say, this partnership will see the complementary strengths of both companies coming together to accelerate the growth of mobile and digital services in Africa. MTN GlobalConnect, an MTN...
MTN GlobalConnect (MTN GC) is aggressively driving fibre ambitions on the continent to scale fixed connectivity and wholesale mobility services. The digital wholesale and infrastructure services company, an operating company in the MTN Group, has presence in five African countries, namely Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and Kenya. Today, MTN Group reported full year 2022 performance, saying...
Pan-African digital wholesale and infrastructure services company, MTN GlobalConnect, has appointed two new managing directors to lead its operations in Nigeria and Uganda. Josephine Sarouk will assume the role of MD for MTN GlobalConnect Nigeria, effective 1 March 2023, and Juliet Nsubuga will take the lead as MD of MTN GlobalConnect Uganda, effective 1 April...
MTN GlobalConnect has acquired MTN Business Kenya to transform its operating company into a dedicated wholesale and infrastructure hub in Kenya. As part of our strategic ambitions to digitally transform our business, this is the first milestone in MTN GlobalConnect’s fibre railroad deployment plans to shape its Pan-African infrastructure expansion. As part of this transformation,...
