MFS Africa has announced entry into Sierra Leone, partnering with AfriMoney, the mobile money service of telecommunications services provider Africell, to enable mobile money users in the country to receive payments from abroad. The companies have released a statement which affirmed that remittances from abroad amount to more than half of annual household consumption in...
The demand for connectivity has increased in Sierra Leone. Apart from cities, rural areas express more needs. Africell, which wants to take part in the new opportunities that are emerging, has decided to extend its telecoms network nationwide. For 2021, the mobile telephone operator Africell has set a target of increasing Sierra Leone’s coverage rate to...
Huawei Technologies has launched the construction of phase 2 of Sierra Leone’s fiber optic network. The site which is still at the level of civil engineering will last 2 years. On September 28, he was inspected by the Ministry of Information and Communications. Construction work on the second phase of Sierra Leone’s national fiber optic network has...
Sierra Leone Cable Limited (SALCAB) is set to be unbundled into a national digital institutional framework, incorporating a national advisory council on digital development to be led by the Presidency. SALCAB, a special purpose vehicle company established to support the country’s telecommunications and enhance access to communications, has been in operation for eight years. Minister...
President Julius Maada Bio, through the Ministry of Information and Communications, has on Friday, April 24th, fully kick started his agenda of digitalizing the entire Sierra Leone as promised in the last elections campaign of 2017.
The government of Sierra Leone, via the country’s telecommunications industry regulator, the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM), has introduced a new floor price for telecommunications services – a move that has not gone down well with subscribers. According to NATCOM, the floor price for all voice calls (including promotions, bonuses and bundles) will be Le590 per...
Since March 6, 2020, the floor price of 590 leones ($ 0.061) has been applicable on the minute of calls to all mobile operators. The National Telecommunication Commission (Natcom) of Sierra Leone calls on Orange, Africell, Qcell and Sierratel to respect it. To this end, it sent a letter to the Chairman and CEO of each...
Sierra Leone’s National Telecommunication Commission (NATCOM) has called on the country’s Central Bank to develop a stronger regulatory framework to secure mobile payment, which is not under its jurisdiction but which affects the telecom companies which it guarantees. Faced with the progressive dynamism of Mobile Money, the telecom regulator also wanted to draw the Central Bank’s...
Nanotechnology, blockchain, cloud computing: Sierra Leone’s President Bio is banking on the most advanced technology to leapfrog the country out of poverty. In a recent Facebook photo, President Julius Maada Bio proudly holds a small but high-tech piece of equipment. The device, called MinION, is a portable and relatively cheap DNA and RNA sequencer which...
Sierra Leone has confirmed a US$30-million loan agreement to finance its contract with Huawei for the second phase of its National Fibre Optic Backbone Project. During this phase of the project, fibre cables will be installed in unconnected regions and enable MNOs and ISPs to expand their capacity and offer 3G and 4G services. The...
