Since the loss of its telecoms independence in 2012, Guinea remains determined to regain it. The country relies on the support of international partners to achieve this. The President of the Republic of Guinea Alpha Condé said during the Council of Ministers, held on Tuesday February 23, that the country has reached an agreement with the...
Vodacom and Mondia have partnered to launch ‘Mum & Baby’ across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mum & Baby is a free-of-charge mobile health intervention service that provides subscribers with maternal, neonatal and child health information designed to encourage good health practices amongst pregnant women, mothers, partners and caregivers. Mondia creates Mum &...
MTN Nigeria’s Mobile Money (MoMo) service ballooned in the year ended December 2020, as the mobile operator drives its fintech business in Africa’s most populous nation. The telco, which has been seeking to reposition itself and push into new sources of revenue, recorded increased uptake in its fintech business, which includes MoMo, insurance, airtime lending...
Over 37.2 million MTN subscribers in Nigeria (representing 48.7% of the company’s subscriber base) have submitted their National Identification Numbers (NINs). This is according to the company’s results for the financial year ended 31 December 2020. CEO Ferdi Moolman reiterated the telco’s position regarding the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) directive regarding SIM registration. “In view...
Announced in March 2020, Espresso’s technological leap will finally materialize in Senegal. The recent threats from the telecoms regulator seem to have brought the telecoms operator out of its torpor. After several months of negotiations, the mobile telephone operator Expresso Senegal, a subsidiary of the Sudatel telecoms group, finally obtained the agreement of the Post and...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Major General Lucky Irabor, has urged telecommunications service providers operating within the Nigeria to support the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) and other security agencies to apprehend perpetrators of crimes across the country. The CDS made this appeal when he received the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mobile Telecom...
Chinese vendor Huawei is to work with Zimbabwe’s state-owned cellco NetOne on the next phase of its ICT service development, with a focus on mobile broadband. A report from Daily News says the project is a ‘strategic cooperation between China and Zimbabwe’, with Huawei responsible for project delivery. Work during Phase II covered remote mountainous areas, while...
The restrictions induced by Covid-19 in Nigeria have sparked a surge in telecommunications consumption in 2020. The effects of this bulimia are being felt on the national economy. Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its “Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report (Q4 & Full Year 2020)” published this February, reveals that the telecommunications sector accounted...
Telkom Kenya CEO Mugo Kibati is on the spot for billing and collecting revenues, on behalf of the ICT ministry, from the users of National Fibre Optic Backbone Infrastructure (Nofbi) without the approval of the National Treasury as required by law. While appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly Wednesday, Mr...
The Chief Executive Officer of 9mobile, Alan Sinfield, has said his company will support the ‘Smart City’ initiative of the Lagos State Government. Sinfield at a panel session, Digital Transformation Solutions for Smart Cities at the Lagos State Economic Summit – Ehingbeti 2021, noted the significance of the Smart City Masterplan of Lagos State and...
