Paratus Zambia is partnering with Meta to build a new 900km open access metro fibre network aimed at boosting connectivity across the country.
OneWeb, a global communications network powered from space, has announced the signing of a distribution partnership agreement with Airtel Africa, a provider of telecommunications and mobile money services across Africa.
Pan-African data centre developer and operator the Raxio Group has held a ground-breaking ceremony marking the start of construction of its fifth – and Côte d’Ivoire’s first – Tier III carrier-neutral colocation data centre.
African Telecommunication Union secretary-general John Amo called (pictured) for African nations to place fibre deployment at the heart of their fiscal plans to attract private investors to drive economic growth or face being left further behind on the global stage.
Fintech firm Yabx has announced that it is entering the Nigerian market.
Pan-African network operator Paratus Group has announced a multi-year agreement with global telecommunications provider OneWeb to build a gateway in Luanda, Angola. It will be operational in the second half of 2023.
Cloud services company Amazon Web Services (AWS) has this week announced the opening of its first office in Lagos, Nigeria.
Digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has completed the installation of Hormuud Telecom’s undersea cable landing station (CLS) in Somalia.
Dolphin Telecoms has been issued an MVNO licence by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ).
The role of solar power in enabling a sustainable approach to telecommunications provision has been underlined recently by initiatives in Chile and Zimbabwe.
Angolan President President Joao Lourenco has issued a decision finalising the transfer of ownership stakes in mobile market leader Unitel from private companies Vidatel and Geni to the state – effectively nationalising the operator.
Telkom SA has launched a high-speed 5G network using technology from Huawei.
In what is described as its largest-ever financing for mobile telecoms network expansion in Africa, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to €100 million financing (about US$99.5 million) with operator MTN Nigeria to support the telecommunications company’s network expansion programme.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has instructed the local units of Airtel and MTN to repeal the tariff increases that they imposed last week.
Benin’s state-owned infrastructure firm SBIN (Societe Beninoise d’Infrastructures Numeriques) has entered the country’s mobile market as its third player.
Kenyan operator Safaricom has announced the commercial availability of 5G in the country – though only in Wi-Fi form for now.
Leading IT infrastructure and services company NTT has announced the opening of its latest data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Cameroon’s main operator Camtel has according to local media, announced plans to bring on board local companies to help operate its FTTH fibre optic networks in two major cities: Yaoundé and Douala.
Earlier this year we reported on the launch of Africa’s first metaverse and plans to commercialise a 3D virtual reality experience set in a virtual world called Ubuntuland. Well, Ubuntuland is about to be home to an Africa-first virtual concert.
A new app called PostalPay will, it is claimed, slash the cost of sending money from parts of Europe to Uganda.
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has issued new licences that will enable the market entry of a third mobile operator and a new satellite broadband provider.
IHS Towers, one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared communications infrastructure in the world by tower count, has announced what it calls its Carbon Reduction Roadmap, with an emphasis on its African markets in particular.
Regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced that it is planning to auction the remaining two lots of 100MHz in the 3.5GHz spectrum band to support 5G deployment in Nigeria.
Safaricom Ethiopia has plans to invest around US$500 million into its operations during its first year of commercial activity.
The MTN Group announcement was fairly undemonstrative. Its headline referred to a “Withdrawal of cautionary announcement”. However, the headline on the MyBroadband site was more typical of the media response to the end of talks between the two South African operators MTN and Telkom. It said: “Telkom share price tanks 25% as MTN bails on takeover talks.”
The Central Bank of Eswatini is looking into the development of a digital currency option with a little help from international technology group Giesecke+Devrient.
It’s not being described as an extension in either case, but both Kenya and Ghana are now offering more time for the SIM card registration process to be completed.
Treten Networks, an ICT solutions and enterprise security services business, has partnered with Africa Data Centres. This partnership will, it says, allow Treten's customers access to the cloud and infrastructure they need to realise their digital transformation goals.
The uneasy relationship that many governments have with online discourse continues; a new law in Uganda has imposed restrictions on the use of the internet that some people feel could silence legitimate criticism.
Guinea’s telecom minister Ousmane Gaoual Diallo has affirmed the government’s commitment to re-launching state-owned Societe des Telecoms de Guinee (Sotelgui) in the first half of 2023.
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has concluded a multiband spectrum auction, bringing in a total of US$187.5 million.
Operator Airtel Africa and payments company Cellulant have announced deals that will help them to expand their presence in the Zambian market.
MTN Cote d’Ivoire is set to boost its rural coverage via a new agreement with NuRAN Wireless.
Airtel Africa, a provider of telecommunications and mobile money services in 14 countries across Africa, is again making its presence felt in the African market with a spectrum acquisition that will boost its network in Tanzania.
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