The Airtel Africa Group has announced the new appointment of Olusegun "Segun" Ogunsanya, as its Managing Director (MD) and CEO. Ogunsanya took the helm of the group as of 1 October 2021.
This comes as former CEO, Raghu Mandava, who led Airtel Africa since 2016, was announced to be stepping...
Last month, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), the country’s communications regulator, announced that it would not be publishing invitations to apply (ITA) to participate in the highly anticipated auction of high-demand spectrum in South Africa, effectively postponing the auction.
ICASA said that the move was made to...
Frogfoot, a licensed open-access infrastructure provider, has announced its acquisition of the Link Africa Western Cape FTTH (Fibre to the Home) network. The deal comes a few months after MetroFibre Networx purchased Link Africa's FTTH network in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
Frogfoot says in a statement that the deal will...
The Ghanaian arm of the largest telecom company in Africa has announced its intentions to launch and make operational 5G services in the West African country by 2023.
This comes as MTN has yet to fully cover Ghana with its 4G spectrum, but projects to gain 98% 4G coverage by...
Safaricom has announced that it will increase its 5G sites by 200 by the end of 2021, and launch a commercialised version of its 5G services in 2022.
Kenya's leading telco launched 5G technology for the first time in the country in March, starting with 15 sites. Now the telco...
Fifth-generation (5G) wireless broadband is no longer a future technology - it’s here and is already available in limited key metropolitan areas in South Africa.
The country, with its limited Internet access and infrastructure, high data costs and ailing economy, can benefit in multiple ways from 5G.
However, there are also...
MTN today has announced a number of community interventions as part of its initiatives to assist in the rebuilding of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) after the deadly unrest that gripped South Africa in July, including the investment of R500-million ($35.2-million) which will go towards network upgrades and expansion throughout the province.
A...
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), the country's communications regulator, has announced that it will not be publishing invitations to apply (ITA) to participate in the long-awaited auction of high-demand spectrum in South Africa.
ICASA says that the move was made to avoid a lengthy court battle against...
Internet Technologies Angola (ITA), part of the Paratus Group, announced today the launch of its high-speed fibre-optic link connecting Angola to DRC across Noqui (Angola) and Matadi (DRC).
The 600-kilometre connection between Luanda and Noqui, with a capacity of up to 200 gigabits per second, will also provide internet services...
South Africa's semi-private telecommunications firm Telkom has cut the price of its 1GB + 1GB All networks data bundle to R79,00 from the previous price of R99. The telco has also announced the introduction of a new 1,5GB + 1,5GB All networks data bundle at R89,00.
According to a statement...
Over the last 36 months, 5G has rapidly gained mindshare in society as a vital technology.
But not all stakeholders in industries adjacent to the telecom industry understand what makes 5G different from its predecessors.
In this post, we describe a set of strategic choices made for previous mobile generations of...
Recently, MTN issued a warning that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)'s decision to take back the emergency temporary radio frequency spectrum it opened to the country's telecoms in April 2020 at the onset of the pandemic would lead to a "digital load shedding" in SA.
ICASA is...
Vodacom Central Region has become the first network provider to launch a 5G mobile network in Kimberly, Northern Cape province of South Africa. The new 5G network supports both mobile and fixed wireless access services.
Customers of the carrier with 5G enabled devices, and within a 5G coverage area, are...
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred digital transformation initiatives across Africa, but it has also affected the revenues of its largest telecommunication firms.
Almost all of the companies in this list had their bottom lines affected by the global pandemic either positively or negatively, however, a key trend is clear -...
Selorm Adavehoh, CEO of MTN Ghana, has expressed his expectations that the operator will be able to launch 5G services in the country as early as next year.
This comes from recent comments that Adavehoh made at the MTN@25 Business Executive Breakfast held at the Pan-African telecommunications company's headquarters in...
South Africa's Competition Commission, the country's business practice watchdog, has unconditionally approved the merger of ISPs: Afrihost, and Cool Ideas.
In June, Afrihost and Cool Ideas said they had concluded a deal in which Afrihost would purchase a majority stake in Cool Ideas. However, the new deal does not see...
