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Digital Transformation

Guinea’s Transitional Government Signs $28M Loan Agreement with African Development Bank

Eva Sgroi -
Guinea's Transitional Government and African Development Bank Group sign an $28 million loan agreement for agropastoral development, digitization and market access. The Bank's Country Manager in Guinea, Léandre Bassolé and the Guinean Minister of the Economy and Finance, Moussa Cissé, signed...
FinTech

New mobile-to-mobile digital payment service launched in Africa

Jenna Delport -
WorldRemit users can now make instant, low-cost international mobile money transfers to 15 million accounts in Guinea, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Niger.  Digital money transfer service, WorldRemit, is set to continue its expansion in Africa by launching a new international...
Company News

Samsung donates 3000 smartphones in fight against Ebola

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Samsung Electronics South Africa has revealed that the company will donate 3000 smartphones, worth about USD 1 million (ZAR10,9 million) to support the ongoing fight against Ebola. The smartphones to be donated through the United Nations Office for the...
Mobile and Telecoms

Huawei & MTN Group ink managed services contract

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Huawei has announced a five-year managed services contract with MTN Group. According to the deal, Huawei will provide managed services for MTN in six countries, including Ghana, Cameroon, Guinea and Benin. The company has stated that the contract covers a...
Mining & Energy

West Africa, Russian mining companies opt for Orange

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Orange Business Services is providing secure satellite VPN services to improve communication between the Russian headquarters of Nordgold and the company’s Lefa mine in Guinea and the Bissa and Taparko mines in Burkina Faso in West Africa. Nordgold has...
Mobile and Telecoms

MTN secures 3G license for Guinea

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South African mobile operator MTN announced that it has secured a license to provide 3G mobile data services to the African nation of Guinea by signing a Convention de Concession de Licences with telecoms regulator L’Autorite de Regulation des Postes...
Mobile and Telecoms

MTN Guinea to launch data, payment services

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Amid growing interest in mobile technology and infrastructure in Guinea, mobile services operator MTN Guinea has announced plans to roll out data and payment services in March. The company's CEO Phumzile Joshua Phike has confirmed that the telecom operator will launch mobile data,...
Mobile and Telecoms

Africa’s ACE undersea cable now operational

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France Telecom-Orange and the other members of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium announced in a ceremony held today in Banjul, The Gambia, that the ACE submarine cable is now operational for the first phase linking France and...
Mobile and Telecoms

Guinea’s ETI chooses Alvarion’s 4Motion for expansion

Staff Writer -
Guinea’s Conakry ISP ETI has chosen Alvarion’s 4Motion 802.16e platform as part of the service provider's broadband network expanstion from the capital in order to cover the entirety of the country. It said the new platform will assist Conakry in...
Top Stories

Guinea, MTN payment wrangle resolved

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The R97 million row between South Africa's mobile operator, MTN and the government of Guinea has finally been resolved, an official confirmed to ITNewsAfrica.com. Responding to written questions, MTN Group Communications Manager, Rich Mkhondo, said the solution has been found...
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Digital TransformationMamsi Nkosi -

Ethio Telecom & AfDB Partnership to Drive Ethiopia’s Digital Economy

In a strategic effort to support Africa's digital transformation, Ethio Telecom has partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB)...
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