A new mobile payments service is launching in Nigeria by a consortium focused on increasing mobile payment usage in the country...

A new affordable netbook aimed at boosting connectivity in South Africa has been released...

The leading pan-African private equity firm Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has invested US$32 million into IHS, a leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider...

In the last two years, Huawei and ZTE secured a total of at least USD55 billion in credit facility from Chinese policy banks to support their expansion into overseas markets...

A leading Mozambican operator is upgrading its 3G radio network in the country’s capital city of Maputo...

Reports that France Telecom-Orange could be expanding into the Democratic Republic of Congo via a takeover of Congo Chine Telecom have proven to be true...

A new eHealth initiative has been piloted in Kenya. The Def Aid Mobile Hearing Clinic, situated in Nairobi’s Kawangware slum, has implemented Cisco’s care-at-a distance technology in conjunction with Deaf Aid and Safaricom, with support from Nairobi’s Menelik Hospital...

A new top up service has been launched in Zambia which allows Zambian nationals living abroad to recharge prepaid mobiles of family and friends in their homeland...

Information and communication are at the heart of any modern business, and thanks to advances in technology these two previously disparate areas have begun to blur into one, creating what has become known as Information Communication Technology...

Customers in 16 African countries will soon have access to seamless internet connectivity and simpler mobile data services...

Political upheavals notwithstanding, Côte d’Ivoire has benefited from sophisticated developments in its telecom sector - and a short-term misstep is unlikely to upset a long term trend towards growth...

Subscribers of Zain Sudan will soon have access to an expanded suite of VAS solutions...

South Africa's mobile market leaders, Vodacom and MTN, are experiencing an impressive comeback following a massive loss of mobile customers in H209 and H110...

Kenya has long been one of the most prosperous telecoms markets in Africa, and while saturation looms, short-term growth will remain strong...

Customers of Vodacom Tanzania are now able to benefit from more flexible billing options...

A new high-speed wireless broadband network is being deployed in Angola by ACS (Angola Communications Systems), a Business Unit of MSTelcom...

Subscriber growth in Ghana has exceeded expectations in the face of mandatory SIM registration and mobile number portability...

The world's newest country, South Sudan, has joined ITU to become the Union's 193rd Member State...

Uganda is one of the fastest and most consistently growing economies in Africa. Fibre, mobile broadband and mobile banking are revolutionising the country’s telecom sector...

A new type of tax is emerging in Africa according to new research conducted by Deloitte and the GSMA...

Mali’s leading internet provider has installed new caching appliances to manage increasing customer demand for international Internet content...

Seven African countries will soon host new 3G networks deployed by Bharti Airtel, which is also planning a major expansion of its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks across Africa...

A new financial institution in Mozambique has launched a mobile financial service aimed at the country’s unbanked population...

Research conducted by Deloitte has demonstrated that sales of mobile phones saw a significant boost in Kenya after the African country’s government scrapped value added tax on handsets in 2009...

Mobile money services have been launched in Nigeria by Lonestar Cell GSM, a member of the MTN Group...

With its potential largely untapped, the oil-rich nation of Sudan has plenty of room to grow...

Developing Telecoms’ Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how operators’ excess power can be used for the benefit of rural communities in Africa...

Enterprise markets in Southern Africa are on the rise and Namibia’s licence-exempt market is no exception...

Despite being Africa’s latest exporter of oil, Chad has one of the least developed telecommunications markets in the world...

The African tower ownership and management company Eaton Towers has secured a major round of equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds (“CIPEF”), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets...

Uganda’s mobile sector is predicted to grow through to the end of 2015, while broadband subscriber numbers are expected to rise significantly between 2013 and 2015...

Far from being written off because of the growth in mobile, Africa’s fixed line operators have a golden opportunity to capitalise on the fibre revolution taking place on the continent...

France Telecom is reportedly close to signing an agreement for the acquisition of DRC operator Congo Chine Telecom...