Senegal’s largest telecommunications operator Sonatel has emerged as one of the latest operators in Africa to test 5G and has announced a partnership with Huawei to introduce the service. At a 5G testing event, hosted recently held in the country’s capital city of Dakar, the operator presented findings to the country’s President Macky Sall. Sekou...
While in June 2020, it completed a loan of 100 billion FCFA to support its investments, the telecoms group Sonatel found itself with 38 billion FCFA in more cash, due to a drop in its capital expenditure. Over the first 9 months of 2020, the telecoms operator Sonatel managed to increase its cash reserves by...
Consumers of telecom services in Senegal will be more educated on the portability of mobile numbers. The regulator is announcing an awareness campaign to this effect. It is a question of questioning the populations on their power as active actors of the competition on the telecoms market. Senegal’s Telecommunications and Postal Regulatory Authority (Artp) will conduct a...
Telecommunications engineering, IT and digital services company Sirius Telecom Afrique has penned a deal involving mobile virtual network services with Senegal’s incumbent national operator Sonatel. The deal enables Sirius Telecom Afrique to roll out its voice and broadband internet services in Senegal, including the MVNO service Promobile, which leverages Sonatel’s 4G+ mobile network. In a...
Sonatel will finally host the virtual mobile network operator (MVNO) Sirius Telecom Africa. The two parties signed the related contract on August 31. The MVNO, blocked since April 2019 by Free its initial partner, announces innovative offers adapted to Senegalese. Sirius Telecom Africa, a telecommunications engineering, IT and digital services company, signed on August 31, 2020 a...
Independent telecom infrastructure company Helios Towers has signed an agreement with Senegal’s second largest operator Free Senegal to acquire the mobile operator’s passive infrastructure assets. The deal, which will be fully financed by Helios Towers’ existing cash and debt facilities, is expected to close by Q1 2021 and is subject to customary completion conditions and...
Senegal ended the first quarter of 2020 with 17.95 million mobile lines, an increase of just 0.38 percent from three months earlier. Growth slowed compared to previous quarters, with notably Free losing customers during the quarter, according to the latest report from telecom regulator ARTP. The mobile penetration rate reached 110.73 percent, up from 107.95...
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%...
