Gabon: Moov Africa will invest $ 18 million to cover 141 villages and 600 km of Telecoms Network

Although the mobile penetration rate is very high in Gabon, the telecom coverage rate, meanwhile, remains to be improved. A challenge that Moov Africa Gabon Telecom wants to take up with regard to its impact on both its finances and national growth. The mobile telephone operator Moov Africa Gabon Telecom announced, Friday July 16, an investment...

Malawi’s TNM has invested US$39m in telecoms infrastructure

Last year Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) invested MK31.5-billion (about US$39-million) in telecommunications infrastructure development as part of an ongoing effort to digitally transform and strengthen operations. TNM board chairman George Partridge said the penetration of telecommunications services in the country stands at 48%, which is low in comparison with other markets. He added: “The smartphone...

Kenya: Communications Authority approached Parliament for telecom infrastructure sharing

The large telecoms footprint of Safaricom on the Kenyan market worries the regulator. The operator, more present than Airtel and Telkom across the national territory, endangers competition. The gendarme of the telecoms market is considering various means to remedy this. The Kenya Communications Authority (CA) has expressed to Parliament its desire to see it adopt new laws...

Kenya: Calls for Safaricom to Share Telco Infrastructure by Kenya Competition Authority

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approached Parliament with new laws that would require the country’s telco’s – mainly Safaricom – to share their private infrastructure on a commercial basis. “The authority’s view is that ab initio infrastructure provisions in the sector should have been separated from the mobile network operators. Primarily regulations should have been...

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