Senegal’s President Macky Sall has asked the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy to implement an urgent plan to achieve nationwide mobile network coverage ‘as soon as possible’, local news agency APS reports. Chairing a weekly cabinet meeting on 15 March, President Sall ordered efforts to ‘improve national telephone coverage and accelerate the digital development of the...
Digital technology is a major factor in the implementation of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE). The government is therefore investing in strengthening the national telecom infrastructure to accelerate digital transformation. Macky Sall, President of Senegal, is concerned about improving the quality and coverage of telecom services in the country. On the occasion of the Council of Ministers...
Ericsson and Free Senegal have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a proof-of-concept (PoC) project to boost the West African country’s digital education ecosystem. According to the PoC, schools will be connected with Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology, and also receive laptops, learning content, and teacher training. The project will run under the...
In December 2021, the ARTP imposed an overall fine of $35 million on three telecom companies for poor quality of service. In response to an appeal filed by the operators concerned, the regulator decided to convert a large part of the penalties into investment obligations. The Telecommunications and Posts Regulatory Authority (ARTP) of Senegal has launched...
Senegal’s Regulation Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (L’Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications et des Postes, ARTP) is seeking stakeholders’ views on the future deployment of 5G services in the country, ahead of the planned publication of its 5G roadmap in March next year. The consultation, which will end on 3 January 2023, is intended to gather...
Since its launch in 2018, the Wave mobile financial services platform has been very popular in Senegal. The company wanted to add the distribution of telephone credit from Sonatel to its services, but discussions between the two parties had not been successful so far. The Telecommunications and Postal Regulatory Authority of Senegal (ARTP) announced on Sunday,...
The demand for broadband connectivity is accelerating in Africa. Telecommunications operators are strengthening their broadband infrastructures to better respond to this. The telecommunications operator Sonatel, the Senegalese subsidiary of the French group Orange, announced on Tuesday July 19 that it had won the market for the connection station in Senegal to a 5 th submarine fiber optic cable. This...
Orange Group and its Senegalese subsidiary Sonatel have opened the Orange 5G Lab Dakar, the group’s first such facility on the African continent for the testing and development of fifth-generation products and services. Benefitting from the experience and opportunities created by the existing network of 13 Orange 5G Labs in Europe, the new site housed...
Free Senegal has announced the deployment of a 5G pilot network in Dakar. Speaking at an event held last Thursday to demonstrate the potential of fifth generation services to drive digital transformation, Free Senegal CEO Mamadou Mbengue revealed five sites have been activated in the capital and another 20 will be rolled out in other regions of...
Senegalese MNO Hayo Telecom has partnered Telesmart.io, an expert in global number and messaging services, to deploy its fully API-enabled number and messaging platform. The platform automates the full supply chain for the MNO, including sign-up, interconnect, on-line provisioning, functionality, visibility and reporting. According to information supplied to the media, the partnership is Telesmart.io’s first...
