Telecoms infrastructure provider Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) secured a US$20 million loan with plans to spend the cash on mobile towers to connect deep rural locations in six new African countries.
MTN announced it will migrate BSS and OSS applications to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, a move to tap into machine learning and AI to deliver operational efficiency across the operator’s footprint, starting with Nigeria and South Africa.
The Seychelles Meteorological Authority (SMA) has signed an agreement with the country's two largest telecommunication companies with the aim of bringing faster disaster risk alerts to the public.
Recent announcements in Africa have yet again underlined the growth of payment technology across the continent, with major names in the digital payments space announcing significant agreements in Egypt and Tanzania.
The Guinean government granted infrastructure provider Guineenne de Fibre Optique (GFO) permission to sell interconnection services and optical fibre transport to operators in Guinea.
Six of Somalia’s operators have enabled voice interconnection between their services.
Ethio Telecom has upgraded its mobile money Telebirr app into a so-called ‘super app’ with crucial upgrades and integration of services, a move to bolster its mobile money proposition in the face of new competition from Safaricom.
Vodacom Group CTO Dejan Kastelic (pictured) said the operator will be expanding its use of LEO satellites this year to plug coverage gaps with satellite operator partners Starlink and AST SpaceMobile.
Safaricom opened a US$2 million operations centre in Kenya to enhance its M-Pesa mobile money platform and prepare for launches into new markets.
The Nigerian government has confirmed that it will not impose the 5% excise duty on Nigeria’s telecoms sector that was originally introduced in August 2022 but delayed soon afterwards.
Omani service provider Omantel has partnered with Wingu Group’s Djibouti Data Centre to expand into the African market and, it says, further boost its standing as a leading regional wholesale hub.
The African Development Fund’s Board of Directors has approved $3.9 million grant to finance an upgrade of Liberia's payments infrastructure and systems project.
Fast Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) subsidiary of network solutions company Paratus Group, has announced that its 620-kilometre fibre optic network link between Muanda on the West Coast and the capital, Kinshasa, is now active. The fibre link will deliver high-speed connectivity to the region through Paratus Group’s pan-African network.
South Africa’s Rain, which describes itself as the country’s mobile data-only network, may not be data-only for long. Its major investor, African Rainbow Capital (ARC), has reportedly said that Rain hopes to launch a full mobile service this year.
Orange ended its exploration of Nigeria as a potential addition to its African footprint, as Middle East and Africa CEO Jerome Henique (pictured), bemoaned a lack of market conditions for the operator to enter.
The National Bank of Rwanda has granted fintech firm Flutterwave two additional licences that will boost its mobile finance offering in East Africa.
Fifteen months after conducting 5G pilot testing in the country, MTN Côte d’Ivoire has announced that its 5G services will be available by the start of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), scheduled for January in that year.
Helios Towers highlighted moves to lower capex for 2023 and focus on organic growth this year, as the company reported boosts to revenue and operating profit.
Hard on the heels of the announcement that it plans to use renewable solar energy for its facilities in South Africa, Africa Data Centres has now said that it intends to deploy what it calls a cutting-edge data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution in facilities in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
The government of Burkino Faso has chosen Telecel Faso’s new subsidiary Bridge Fiber Solutions (BFS) to operate and maintain the country’s fibre optic backbone network.
Africa Data Centres and operator Orange are both making plans to use solar power for at least some of their data centre power requirements in parts of Africa.
State-owned operator Guinee Telecom, formerly known as Sotelgui, will not relaunch operations until next year, dismissing reports claiming the operator will do so this year.
A good financial showing in 2022 from pan-African service provider MTN Group was accompanied by stern comments from the group’s CEO Ralph Mupita about the situation it faces in South Africa.
Developing Telecoms met recently with Huawei FinTech and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) team, to discuss the development and growth of Huawei’s MFS business. The interview started by asking them to outline how Huawei first entered the MFS market.
The Telecommunications Operators Association of Zimbabwe (TOAZ), the industry body that represents Zimbabwe’s telecommunications companies, has petitioned the country’s parliament to change the law so that operators can charge economically sustainable tariffs.
The Cape Verdean telecommunications service provider Cabo Verde Telecom (CVTelecom) plans an IPO on the national stock exchange by the end of the year, according to Miguel Monteiro, president of the Cape Verde Stock Exchange, who revealed the plan in a recent press briefing.
Smartphone shipments in Africa declined 16.2% year-on-year in Q4 2022, marking a sixth quarter of decline, as consumer and vendor confidence was cut by macroeconomic factors, according to analyst firm IDC.
Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has announced the launch of tailored, master-planned data centre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana, with more to come.
Orange signed a distribution agreement with satellite company OneWeb to enhance its connectivity in rural locations in Europe, Latin America, Africa and other global regions.
It seems that mobile money is a major driver of an impressive set of figures from operator MTN Uganda, the country's largest telecom company, which has a subscriber base of about 17.2 million, and is part of the pan-African MTN Group.
New arrival in the market – and now the second national operator in the country – Safaricom Ethiopia and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia have signed an MoU.
Pan-African network provider Paratus says it has broken ground on what is described as a multimillion-rand satellite teleport facility in Doornkloof, around 50 miles north of Johannesburg.
Airbus Defence and Space, a major player in the aerospace industry, has announced an agreement for Angeo-1, the first very high performance Angolan Earth observation satellite, to be manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space in France.
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