MFS Africa, which describes itself as Africa’s largest payment gateway, has announced its entry into Sierra Leone, partnering with Afrimoney, the mobile money service offered by pan-African telecommunications company Africell.
Operator Moov Africa – Gabon Telecom has announced plans for an investment programme of more than 10 billion CFA francs (about $17.9 million) to bring coverage to Gabon's main roads – and many of its villages – using 3G and 4G technology.
iSAT Africa and SES have signed a three-year agreement to deliver 4G services across East Africa, initially via the latter firm’s O3b medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued a clarification that Airtel Nigeria’s Unified Access Service Licence (UASL) application has not yet been approved, contradicting an assertion by the operator’s CEO Olusegun Ogunsanya.
Despite numerous initiatives, it seems that hundreds of millions of people across the African continent still have no access to mobile broadband. However, satellite capacity provider Avanti Communications and clean power provider Clear Blue Technologies are hoping to change that.
Operator Africell, which already has a presence in Sierra Leone, The Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, has announced plans to deploy a brand-new 5G-ready network in Angola with the help of vendor Nokia.
The latest African country to attempt to open up its telecoms sector to competition is Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
Pan-African data centre developer and operator Raxio Group is establishing a carrier-neutral data centre in Mozambique.
Mauritania has prompted outcry from human rights watchdogs after indicating that the government could further tighten its grip on internet usage.
Following hard on the heels of its launch of Hype – the in-browser chat service for Opera Mini users – in a number of African countries, global internet brand Opera has now added interest-based social clubs to the fast-growing chat service.
A reminder of the growing importance of smart mobile devices to African broadcasters has come with the announcement by streaming giant Netflix of a new mobile-only subscription plan for its mobile device-using audience in sub-Saharan Africa.
Liquid Technologies has partnered with Facebook to build an extensive long haul and metro fibre network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The government of Nigeria has granted the nation’s mobile phone users additional time to register a valid National Identification Number (NIN) with their network provider.
Pan-African fintech firm Carbon has entered a strategic five-year partnership with Visa to provide its customers with digital and physical Visa payment cards.
Government efforts to use the success of popular communications services as a source of new tax income have continued. The latest example is a reported 10 percent tax on the earnings of mobile money agents in Ghana.
A new investment in an African tower specialist could boost tower building in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire – and possibly further afield.
Malawi has launched the second phase of the national fibre backbone project that began more than four years ago.
Tecnotree has landed a digital transformation contract with MTN Group covering several African markets.
The Nigerian Twitter suspension controversy took a new turn last week as the country’s government decided to initiate talks with Twitter – or at least to name a team that will be asked to do so.
Mozambique’s Tmcel (Mocambique Telecom) has signed a US$23 million 4G expansion deal with Huawei that will also see the operator preparing for the advent of 5G services.
Following a number of announcements from other parts of West Africa, Senegal is the latest country in the region to make headlines in the data centre world with the official announcement of plans to migrate all government data and applications to a new government data centre.
The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei that will see African countries and organizations build capacity for ICT transformation.
A multi-year distribution agreement to extend high-speed network connectivity to South Africa has been confirmed after satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and infrastructure provider and telecommunications company Vox signed a distribution agreement for Eutelsat Konnect capacity over South Africa.
It looks like some measure of privatisation is finally going to be applied to the state-owned operator Angola Telecom by the Angolan government.
Carrier-neutral data centre provider MainOne has announced the imminent launch of its new data centre in Appolonia City, Accra.
With the granting by the country’s ICT Authority (ICTA) of 5G licences to three mobile operators, Mauritius is the latest African country to take a step towards launching 5G – but it has done so in a slightly different way.
The complex consequences of unfettered access to social media and its opposite, banning social media, have been highlighted in recent news stories from India and Nigeria.
The Angolan minister of economy and planning, Sérgio Santos, has apparently invited the Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom to invest in the country.
The incredible reach of social media is causing issues for governments and social media companies alike as they struggle with conflicts between free speech and the perceived interests of the state. The latest example in a growing number comes from Vietnam.
There have been multiple reports over the past few days suggesting that Mocambique Telecom (Tmcel) may soon be unable to offer voice calls after an interconnection-related spat with fellow operator Vodacom Mozambique.
National regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced two big initiatives: a licensing review and the approval of 73 new satellite permits.
Atos, which describes itself as a global leader in digital transformation, is to build a new data centre in Kenya.
The process that will lead to the sale of just under half of Ethiopia’s state-owned operator Ethio Telecom is apparently under way.
As part of what is described as an ambitious plan to strengthen Ghana as a maritime forerunner in West Africa, the Ghana Maritime Authority and Danish commercial satellite operator Sternula have announced a new partnership involving e-navigation connectivity.
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