The Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) has signed a ten-year contract with authentication solutions company Authentix, under the terms of which Authentix will provide a marketplace governance programme to BURS for the digital marking and tracking of tobacco and alcohol products.
The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has updated its roadmap for the issue of 5G spectrum, covering airwaves in the 700MHz, 2600MHz and 26GHz bands.
Telecel Group announced it has opened dialogue with the Ghanaian government to acquire Vodafone’s unit in the country after the country’s regulator revealed it has not approved the deal.
The Ghanaian National Communications Authority (NCA) has denied media reports claiming it blocked Vodafone’s proposed sale of its Ghana unit to rival Telecel Group, however it has not approved the transaction either.
In a fascinating development very close to the launch of its new venture in Ethiopia, Kenya’s Safaricom has announced that current chairman of the board Michael Joseph has stepped down to lead the company’s Ethiopian campaign.
Some seven months after going into insolvency, and nearly four months after being saved from receivership by Singapore-based IoT solutions firm UnaBiz, Sigfox, the supplier of a proprietary narrowband technology designed specifically for IoT, has launched in South Africa.
The Ghanaian government has extended the deadline for people to register SIM cards with the Ghana Card, the document mandated for SIM registration.
It’s been a busy weekend for social media controversies in Kenya, as both Facebook and the government have scrambled to deal with bad news regarding alleged online hate speech.
Huawei has deployed over 100 5G-ready base stations for MTN Nigeria as the operator gears up to launch a commercial 5G offering from 24th August.
Vodafone Group has reportedly agreed to sell off a majority stake in its Ghana unit to rival Telecel Group, a move to refocus on key markets, Bloomberg reported.
Botswana’s BoFiNet has selected Ribbon Communications to upgrade and enhance its national backbone network.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) revealed Orange Group is planning to carve out a piece of the Nigerian market for itself despite the country already having four operators, building on the growth it gained in other African units.
Vodacom expanded its connectivity investment plan by pledging to pump ZAR600 million (US$35.5m) into the province of Mpumalanga this financial year.
A major debt finance deal promises to enable open access fibre provider MetroFibre Networx to bring more fibre connectivity to underserved markets in South Africa.
Niger’s Zamani Telecom has completed a wide-ranging upgrade of its 4G TD-LTE network.
Operator Zain South Sudan has gone live with a new digital service provisioning system (DSPS) supplied by Tecnotree, which describes itself as a global provider of digital transformation solutions for communication service providers (CSPs) and digital service providers (DSPs).
The South African Communications Workers Union (CWU) moved to urge authorities to block MTN’s acquisition of Telkom, claiming the buyout will lead to lower competition and mass redundancies.
Underlining the dominance of South Africa in general, and Johannesburg in particular, in the African data centre market, US-headquartered Vantage Data Centres, described as a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced the delivery of the first facility on its Johannesburg campus.
Safaricom chief executive officer Michael Joseph calmed mounting interest in the operator spinning off its successful mobile money division M-Pesa into a seperate company.
Airtel Africa confirmed its Kenyan unit bought 60MHz of additional spectrum in the 2600 MHz band from the Communications Authority of Kenya for US$40 million, a move to expand its 4G network.
Guinea is the latest African country in which a telecoms regulator has seen fit to step in over allegations of unacceptable quality of service by an operator.
Africa’s Phase3 Telecom, an independent aerial fibre optic network infrastructure and telecommunications service provider, has partnered with satellite broadband service YahClick to offer high-speed, low-latency satellite broadband services.
Vodacom pledged to invest ZAR1 billion (US$58.2 million) into its mobile network in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal to accelerate connectivity in the deep rural areas.
Vodacom will retain full ownership of the tower company subsidiary which will have full ownership of the operator’s tower portfolio.
State-owned fixed and mobile operator Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) has announced plans to deploy fixed broadband infrastructure and services to new housing projects in the country.
Ethiopian mobile money service TeleBirr has now passed the 20 million subscriber mark. In fact the Xinhua agency reports that TeleBirr, a service designed and rolled out with help from Huawei, now boasts more than 21 million subscribers.
Telecom Namibia pledged to invest NAD2.3 billion (US$134m) into its infrastructure to address the country’s “urgent need” to improve low connectivity adoption and high prices.
Tanzanian telecoms regulator TCRA called out operators Vodacom, Tigo, Airtel, Tanzania Telecommunications Company and Halotel for subpar connectivity services, particularly in 15 districts.
MTN Group has opened acquisition talks with Telkom South Africa in a move that would bolster its ability to compete with market leader Vodacom.
The seven-month ban imposed on Twitter by the Nigerian government was unlawful, according to a ruling by the ECOWAS court, the judicial organ of the Economic Community of West African States, which has the responsibility of resolving disputes related to the interpretation of the community’s treaty, protocols and conventions.
Mobile network expansion is in the news again, with Vodacom in South Africa and Telkom in Kenya announcing plans to invest in better coverage.
Less than a year after the last review, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has allowed operators to raise their tariffs.
Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS) has selected Cerillion to implement a complete digital BSS/OSS solution.
Orange Cameroon has been granted permission by the country’s Ministry of Finance to launch Orange Money Cameroon SA, a subsidiary dedicated to financial transactions via mobile phones.
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