News from Sub-Saharan Africa

Thuraya, a subsidiary of Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered spacetech company, has announced the commercial rollout of its next-generation mobile

Africa’s coastlines are becoming gateways to a digital future. A wave of new subsea cables is reshaping connectivity across the continent - but

Satellite technology company Avanti Communications announced on Tuesday it has expanded its partnership with Türksat with a new agreement that

SES and Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) announced on Tuesday they have successfully upgraded over 200 telecoms sites across Côte d’Ivoire to deliver

UN partners, including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and GSMA, announced on Monday they are working on expanding efforts in

Pan-African telecoms network services provider Paratus Group announced on Monday it has launched “Paratus 500”, a service that leverages all of

It’s a major news day for data centre developments in Nigeria, and specifically Lagos, a city for which two leading names in Africa, Equinix and

Paratus Botswana announced on Friday it is extending its national network coverage to Tati Siding, near Francistown, as part of its broader

Safaricom reported a 52.1% increase in group net income to KES 42.8 billion for the half year ended September 2025, driven by solid

Digital transformation projects focused on younger end users have been highlighted this week in West Africa where operator Orange Liberia has

UAE-based Space42 announced on Wednesday that its next-gen Thuraya-4 satellite is now globally available for customers in Europe, Africa, Central

Pan-African telecoms and network services provider Paratus Group announced on Wednesday it has expanded its operations into Uganda via a joint

Axian Telecom’s fibre subsidiary, Axian Telecom Fibre, has completed the acquisition of 99.63% stake in Wananchi Group, a fixed broadband

There is bad news for operators in both Chad and Zambia, whose telecommunications regulators have highlighted what they see as serious quality of

Tanzania has been accused of shutting down internet access and restricting social media around recent elections that saw protests accusing the

Orange submarine cable subsidiary Orange Marine announced the construction of two new cable ships to boost the resilience of digital

Digital Realty has launched ACR2, its first data centre in Ghana, that it says will serve as a critical hub in Ghana’s digital ecosystem by

Ericsson said on Monday it has successfully completed MTN Nigeria’s first field trial of a triple-band FDD massive MIMO radio that integrates the

Two submarine cables – one linking the UAE and Kenya and the other linking Tunisia with France – have made news recently, the former thanks to a

Automation and orchestration specialist Inmanta expanded its sovereign cloud automation offering to Africa, aiming to help telecom operators and

Wingu Africa, a specialist provider of carrier-neutral, Tier III-standard data centres in East Africa, has entered a strategic partnership with

Mozambique’s government has made 5G coverage compulsory in all provincial capitals, while scrapping its earlier plan to auction spectrum licences

It may come as a surprise to some readers to hear that, more than three years after the telecommunications regulator ...

MTN MoMo South Africa is expanding its strategic collaboration with Mastercard in a bid to increase access to digital financial services and

Singapore-headquartered global payment platform Thunesand pan-African financial institution Ecobank Group signed an agreement on Wednesday to

Safaricom has officially confirmed it is partnering with Meta subsidiary Edge Network Services to establish the Daraja subsea cable system that

Logistics solutions company DP World says it has launched the rollout of its Port Community System (PCS) platform in Kenya, marking what it calls

Ownership of 5G phones in Nigeria is greatly outpacing coverage, leaving many users unconnected to 5G, according to a new report conducted by

Two recent news stories – from Madagascar and Chad – indicate that some African regulators feel they need to respond strongly to public concerns

NEC Africa announced on Wednesday it has kicked off a project with Cote d'Ivoire’s Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Production

The governments of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have held discussions on the extension of Tanzania’s National ICT

Pan-African telecoms and network services provider Paratus Group announced on Wednesday that it is expanding into Rwanda, where it will provide

Ethio Telecom and Djibouti Telecom announced that they are actively exploring new collaboration opportunities to deepen their ongoing partnership

South African telco Vodacom said on Sunday it plans to invest over ZAR660 million (US$38.2 million) in network infrastructure in Southern Gauteng

UAE-based digital solutions firm Yango Group and China Mobile International (CMI) have reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to

Ethio Telecom launched a new line of low-cost cloud-based smartphones on Thursday to not only boost uptake of its 4G network, but also address

MTN’s digital infrastructure arm Bayobab said on Thursday it has signed an MoU with US-based AI company Seekr Technologies to offer

Global independent tower company IHS Towers announced on Thursday that it has officially completed the sale of its Rwanda unit and its

In a recent feature, I explored how operators are reducing their capex by turning to alternatives for RAN, including Infrastructure as a Service

South African company fibertime, which says its aim is to connect townships to affordable world-class internet, is working with tech giant Nokia

Subsea cable operator and managed connectivity service provider Seacom says it has signed an MoU with broadcast and digital services

African data centre operator Raxio Group says it has signed an agreement with digital network operator Laser Light Africa to accelerate internet

Botswana and Nigeria are in the data centre news after recent announcements signalling plans to develop facilities in both countries powered, in

The government of Mauritania has indicated that it intends to develop a national space programme focused on nanosatellites to strengthen

Ericsson said on Monday that MTN South Africa has successfully completed its core network modernisation project that will give its mobile

Deploying a mobile network has never been cheap, but the scale of the intensive capital expenditure required is increasingly pushing smaller

Finland-based business support systems (BSS) provider Qvantel announced it is acquiring rival Optiva, in a move aimed at expanding its scale and

The World Bank Group has approved the Digital Zambia Acceleration Project (DZAP), a project that aims to support Zambian government efforts to

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has agreed to fund a feasibility study for a plan to extend AFR-IX Telecom’s Medusa subsea cable

Loc8 has reportedly entered Namibia’s 5G arena, aiming to launch its network in Q1 2026 after years of securing telecoms licences for both 4G and