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Safaricom Launches Shari’ah-Compliant Mobile Loans
Safaricom has partnered with Gulf African Bank to launch a Shari’ah-compliant mobile financial service, Helal Pesa, in Kenya. According to Tech Weez, the product is the first Shari’ah-compliant mobile and digital solution in the East African country. Customers accessing financing…
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Kenyans Spend More Time Listening To Radio Than Watching TV, Report Shows
The Media Council of Kenya released a ‘State of the Media’ report on Thursday which shows that Kenyans spend more time listening to the radio than watching TV. According to the report, Kenyans watch TV for only two hours, which…
Kenya Gets Sixth Submarine Internet Cable Worth $400-Million
On Tuesday, Kenya launched its sixth submarine internet cable worth $400-million to offer high speed, lower latency, and broader bandwidth. According to Business Daily, the cable will connect Africa to France and Pakistan through the Europe-Asia route, providing direct connectivity…
Liquid Intelligent Secures Slice of Equiano Subsea Cable
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has announced it has acquired a fibre pair on the Equiano subsea cable, allowing Liquid to transport traffic up to 12 Terabits, bringing a much-needed increase in international…
Airtel Africa Wants to Get Rid of its Towers to Cut Costs
Pan-African telecommunications firm Airtel Africa has reportedly stopped investing in new tower infrastructure in Kenya, and other markets across the continent, as it prepares to sell most of its already-existing infrastructure assets. This is in efforts to reduce ownership of…
Why You Don’t Need VPN Encryption?
There is an army of shills on the internet pumping out unending content which claims that by simply clicking one button, you will be completely untraceable online. All of your online privacy concerns will be instantly addressed, as if by…
Paratus Expands to DRC, Connects 620KM Fibre Optic Line
Telecommunications firm Paratus Group has announced its expansion into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This coincides with the news that Paratus has won, together with DRC based Global Broadband Solution (GBS), a government tender to activate a 620-kilometre fibre-optic…
Tizeti Partners Microsoft to Boost High-Speed Internet in Nigeria
Microsoft, the US-founded tech megacorp, and West African solar-based internet service provider Tizeti have announced a new collaboration to boost high-speed internet in Nigeria with the “Airband initiative”. The initiative will see the rollout of high-speed Airband internet infrastructure in…
Ethiopia’s Government Postpones Ethio Telecom Privatisation Process
The government of Ethiopia has announced today that it will be postponing the ongoing privatisation process of the state-owned Ethio Telecom, and did not set a timeframe for when the process will continue. In an announcement posted to Twitter by…
Here’s How Much MTN Spent During the ICASA Spectrum Auction
MTN announced on Thursday that it had secured the high-demand spectrum required for its 4G and 5G network expansion drive from the highly anticipated ICASA spectrum auction. ICASA announced that MTN had successfully secured the following spectrum bands: 2 x…
MTN SA Invests $46.4-Million in New Infrastructure for KZN, South Africa
Africa’s largest telecom group MTN SA has announced a further investment of $46.4-million (R700-million) in order to modernise existing, and deploy new, network infrastructure across the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The $46.4-million investment, which is an addition to the…
Telkom Launches New Mobile Pay App for SMMEs in SA
Telkom Financial Services has launched the Telkom Pay Mobile Point-of-Sale (mPOS) app, a fintech tool that allows small, micro, and medium business owners to make and receive payments through their mobile phones. Telkom says that the said businesses will be…
Airtel Nigeria Upgrades All 2G & 3G Cell Sites to 4G
Airtel Nigeria, the West African arm of telecom Airtel Africa, has announced that it is upgrading all of its cell sites to 4G technology. The operator says that now its 50-million customers in Nigeria can “tap into flawless voice call…
Safaricom Hits 30 Million Monthly Active M-PESA Users in Kenya
Telco Safaricom has revealed that its active M-PESA users have surpassed the 30-million mark for its Kenya customers, according to Techweez. Techweez says that this new development follows after the product’s 15th birthday after its launch in May 2007. M-PESA…
MTN Group Posts “Strong” 2021 Results – $583M in Profits
South African telecom MTN has released its financial results for the year ended December 2021 and reported “strong financial, operational and sustainability results” through what the group is calling a “tough macro year.” MTN boasts that these very positive results…
4 Important Things You Need to Know About ICASA’s Auction Tomorrow
After several years of delays, cancellations, court cases and the setting of further and further deadlines, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is finally set to auction access to SA’s much-coveted spectrum for mobile broadband services. Two auctions…
