The government of Tanzania has launched project Digital Tanzania to drive the country’s broadband penetration, which will benefit over 8.5 million people across the country upon completion. The Digital Tanzania project, which is driving the East Africa country’s broadband ambitions to achieve 80% penetration by 2025, is supported by the World Bank and mobile network...
The concept delivers a huge economic benefit to millions of individuals who live in rural areas and have been impeded by significant communication barriers President Samia Suluhu Hassan yesterday witnessed the signing of rural telecommunication projects that will provide communication services to 8.5 million people who have no access to the network. The contracts will...
The energy crisis that South Africa has been going through for several months is affecting all sectors of the economy. Telecom operators are exploring options to keep their telecom towers running. The South African telecom company MTN SA wants to bring in foreign electrical engineers for the maintenance of its telecom towers in a context of...
Helios Towers plans to take advantage of the evolution to next-generation mobile technologies, such as 5G and 6G, as it targets a bigger footprint across its markets. This is according to Sainesh Vallabh, chief executive for Southern and Central Africa for Helios Towers, speaking to ITWeb recently on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress 2023,...
New York-listed IHS Holding is weighing a bid for Telkom’s tower unit, according to people familiar with the matter. Deliberations are focused on the structure of the potential deal, although Telkom remains open to offers from other companies and there is no guarantee IHS will buy the unit, according to the people, who asked not to be...
Ooredoo Group CEO Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo said the operator is in the last rounds of negotiations with interested parties for its portfolio of towers, with a deal it expects to be finalised this year, reported Bloomberg. Fakhroo said in a broadcast interview with the news agency, the long-running process to sell off its 20,000 towers...
South Africa’s mobile operators are reluctant to reveal the providers and brands of the batteries they use to keep their networks online during load-shedding due to the risk of being targeted by criminals. Criminal syndicates seek high-capacity batteries as they can fetch high values on the black market. MyBroadband asked Vodacom, MTN, and Telkom about...
Namibia’s market-leading cellco Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) has announced the activation of its 1,000th network tower. The site in Okadhiya in the Oshana Region has been deployed as part of the operator’s NAD1.2 billion (USD69.8 million) 081Every1 project, launched in August 2017, which aims to extend network coverage to almost 100% of the population through the...
According to official data, nearly half of the Congolese population does not have access to telecom services. Operators need more capacity to extend their network coverage to unconnected populations. Canadian telecom infrastructure solutions provider NuRAN Wireless Inc. and telecom tower manager Trans Africa Towers will deploy 500 telecom sites over a three-year period in the Democratic...
Reducing the carbon footprint of companies has become a priority as climate change accelerates on a global scale. Many African telecom operators have already taken initiatives in this direction. Telecom tower manager IHS Towers on Monday (24 October) unveiled a roadmap for reducing its carbon emissions in its African markets, among others. The company says it is...
