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Airtel Africa Signs $124-Million Credit Facility with Citi Bank

Airtel Africa, one of Africa's largest telecom groups with a presence in 14 countries across the continent, today announced the signing of a $125-million revolving credit facility with investment banking group Citi through its branch offices/subsidiaries in sub-Saharan Africa. The...

Airtel Africa Coughs Up $40-Million for New Kenyan Spectrum

Airtel Africa, one of the continent's largest telecommunications groups with a presence in 14 countries, today announces that its Kenya subsidiary, Airtel Kenya, has concluded its purchase of additional spectrum in the country. According to the announcement Airtel Kenya has...

Airtel Money is Now On its Own

Telecoms group Airtel Kenya has announced that it will be splitting its mobile money business - Airtel Money - from its main company. Instead, Airtel Money will now be operating under the name 'Airtel Money Kenya Limited'. “Following this business separation,...

Airtel Kenya Appoints New CEO

Airtel Kenya, one of the largest telecommunications service providers in Kenya, has announced the appointment of Ashish Malhotra as the new CEO. Malhotra replaces Prasanta Das Sarma who left the position for a co-CEO position for Fibre Services at Airtel...

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...

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...

Airtel Kenya Agrees to $30-Million Spectrum Settlement

Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, today announced that its Kenya subsidiary, Airtel Kenya Networks Limited (‘Airtel Kenya’), has agreed to settlements with the Communications Authority...

Safaricom Announces Launch Date for Commercial 5G Network

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...

4 Fastest Mobile Internet Operators in Kenya Ranked

Internet and connectivity speed tester Ookla last month released its market analysis for Kenya, ranking the country’s fastest mobile internet operators. The analysis only takes into account top mobile operators in the country, ones which account for 3% or more...

Kenya’s IEBC Denies Servers Were Hacked to Steal Personal Details from 61,000 Voters

Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has refuted claims that hackers infiltrated its servers and obtained the personal details of at least 61,000 registered voters. This comes after reports from the Directive of Criminal Investigators (DCI) were released, saying...
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