Helios Towers is acquiring the passive infrastructure assets of Senegal’s number two mobile player Free Senegal for US$188.2 million. Through this transaction, Helios Towers will become the largest independent tower infrastructure provider in Senegal with 1,220 sites. Free Senegal is backed by a consortium of investors including Teyliom Group, Sofima and NJJ, a private holding...
The operator Free Senegal is subject to a penalty of 2% of its average daily turnover excluding taxes until it complies with the decisions taken by Artp to resolve its dispute with Sirius Telecom Africa, prevented from launching its activities for more than a year. The sanction against Free has been running since June 12, 2020....
Senegal’s incumbent operator Sonatel has announced the successful early completion of its XOF100 billion (USD173 million) bond issue. The company revealed that the seven-year loan offering a gross interest rate of 6.50% per year, the largest bond issue to date by a private company in the region, was oversubscribed by more than 120%, with 39%...
Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF/the Fund) plans to invest up to US$50-million in a bond issue with the objective to raise US$170-million for investment in Senegal-based telecommunications services provider Sonatel S.A. According to a statement released to the media, Sonatel’s bond, launched on 15 June 2020, will have...
The Regulation Authority for Telecoms and Post (ARTP) has issued formal warnings to Senegal’s three major mobile network operators (MNOs) – Orange, Free and Expresso – for failing to meet quality of service (QoS) standards. The regulator noted it had been compelled to take action after a recent audit revealed ‘failings which negatively impact the...
Work on the Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) cable is under way. Huawei Marine Networks (HMN), a provider of a submarine-network solutions this week announced the start of work on the SHARE cable, which will extend from West Africa far into the Atlantic Ocean.
The mobile operator Expresso, a Senegalese subsidiary of the Sudanese telecoms group Sudatel, has decided to postpone the deployment of its 4G network to an undefined date. This decision stems from the current health context and the state of emergency decreed by the government which force the whole population, in particular a large part of its...
Fatou Sow Kane, the director of the commercial pole – company of the mobile operator Expresso, announced on March 3, 2020 the technical launch of 4G by the company. However, the network will not be accessible to consumers until March 31. “With this 4G Expresso, the experience will be even better in terms of connection, speed...
The National Telecommunications Company (Sonatel) of Senegal, a subsidiary of the French telecoms group Orange, recorded revenue of 1,086.6 billion FCFA in 2019, up by 64.6 billion FCFA compared to to 2018. Despite a tense business environment in these different markets – political and economic crisis in Bissau, precarious security context in northern Mali, political...
The Senegalese Association of Information and Communication Technology Users (ASUTIC) supports the entry of a fourth operator in the national telecom market. In an interview given on October 10, 2019 to the newspaper Sud Quotidien , Ndiaga Guèye (photo), the president of the association, said that a new actor would revive the competition in a market where he...
