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Vodacom empowers unemployed youth with ICT skills
Vodacom has announced that 367 unemployed young people will be graduating with certified diplomas in Information Technology Technical Support from the Vodacom Youth Academy during March and April this year. The Vodacom Foundation founded the Youth Academy in 2012 with…
MTN Nigeria rolls out smart feature phone running on KaiOS
MTN has started to roll out its new Smart S 3G phone across all of its African markets. The telco launched MTN Smart, a smart feature phone running on Kai Operating System (KaiOS) in Nigeria. MTN Smart comes with two…
Rwanda: MTN accelerates growth, delivers on dividend
MTN Group, the parent company of MTN Rwanda, last week, announced its financial results for the year 2018 which ended December, promising its investors that it was committed to improve its financial performance in the medium term period. The South…
Cell C’s annual Take a Girl Child to Work initiative goes digital
For the past 17 years, Cell C’s Take a Girl Child to Work Day initiative has been a resounding success and this year the programme introduces an all-new digital support platform and extends to grade 8 and 9 learners for…
Subex, BTC ink 5 year multi-million-dollar contract
Subex, a telecom analytics solution provider, announced that it has signed a five-year multi-million-dollar deal with Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTC), a telecommunications services provider in Botswana. As part of the deal, Subex will be implementing its integrated ROC Revenue…
DFA branches out to Zimbabwe
DFA opened a new office in Harare, Zimbabwe, this week. This new office is the fibre optic company’s first network expansion into African markets outside of South Africa. The DFA Zimbabwe operations are headed up by Simon Chimutsotso, a seasoned…
MTN and Ericsson extend mobile money partnership in Africa
MTN and Ericsson have signed a five-year contract extension to deploy new products and provide Managed Services for Mobile Money services in 13 countries across Africa and the Middle East. The new contract includes deployment of Ericsson Wallet Platform in…
Data highway expands rapidly through Africa
Paratus Africa has announced that it recently activated additional capacity between West Africa Undersea Cable System (WACS) and Lusaka, Zambia. This follows the recent Paratus Trans Kalahari Fiber project that was built between the WACS landing station in Swakopmund and…
MTN signs up to Liquid Telecom’s 4G Roaming service
Liquid Telecom South Africa has secured MTN as first customer MTN, to offer 4G roaming to millions of South Africans. This includes LTE services to fuel the growing demand for high-speed mobile broadband. The wholesale roaming service will be made…
Cell C appoints new interim Group Chief Executive Officer
Cell C has announced the appointment of Douglas Craigie Stevenson as interim Group Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective 1 March 2019. Craigie Stevenson replaces Jose Dos Santos, who announced his resignation as Chief Executive Officer in February 2019.…
Telecom Egypt, Nokia working on IoT rollout in Egypt
In advance of Mobile World Congress, Nokia launched off-the-shelf Internet of Things (IoT) packages to help operators win new business in vertical IoT markets. In addition to enabling operators to achieve a fast time to market, the packages simplify the…
Ghana: NCA revokes Expresso telecom’s licence
The license of Kasapa Telecoms Limited, operators of 028 numbers under the Expresso telecom brand, has been revoked revealed the National Communications Authority (NCA). Kasapa Telecom Limited is not licensed to provide any telecommunication services in Ghana. The NCA is…
Rain and Huawei to announce 5G roll out in South Africa
At 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC 2019), Data-only network Rain has announced it’s going to start offering 5G commercial services in South Africa in September 2019. The company is partnering with hardware manufacturer Huawei, which will supply the devices necessary for consumers…
Orange launches a new smart feature phone powered by KaiOS
Orange has partnered with KaiOS Technologies and UNISOC to launch a phone with voice recognition at $US 20 in 16 countries in Africa and the Middle-East : Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire,…
MWC2019: Huawei unveils 5G live networks and foldable phones
Huawei kicked off this year’s Mobile World Congress with its Day0 Forum in Barcelona. With the theme of building a fully connected intelligent world, the forum included industry insights of the latest trends. At the 5G is ON industry insights,…
MWC2019: Nokia, Korea Telecom to conduct trials on 5G NFV and network slicing
Nokia and Korea Telecom (KT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate and trial various 5G technologies, including NFV and network slicing, in order to develop new applications and business models for the operator’s enterprise customers. The joint work…
