Mobile network operator Lonestar Cell MTN and Youtap have launched Momo Pay, a contactless mobile payment service for Lonestar Cell MTN Mobile Money users in Liberia. Momo Pay enables Lonestar Cell MTN customers to ‘tap and pay’ for goods and...
United Bank Africa (UBA) and Mastercard have announced a partnership which will see UBA act as the issuer for MasterCard in 18 new markets in Africa. The partnership, which came into effect in 2016, will see UBA issue Mastercard credit, debit and prepaid...
Orange has revealed that it has completed the acquisition of 100% of Cellcom through its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire. Less than three months after signing the agreement with Cellcom Telecommunications Limited for the acquisition of its Liberian...
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...
MTN Mobile Money users, who are also Ecobank customers in 12 African countries, will soon be able to withdraw cash from Ecobank ATMs. They will also be able to transfer money between their Mobile Money and Ecobank accounts. The service was piloted in Ghana...
February 18, 2014 •
Features, West Africa •
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The West African country of Liberia has received a great deal of coverage in the news of late. Specifically, there have been detailed reports in regional media about financial irregularities within the Liberia Telecommunication Authority (LTA) and the...
From Liberia, local GSM and mobile services provider Cellcom has announced the extension of its 4G services to an additional two Counties, Margibi and Sinoe. This brings to four the regions covered by the Company. The Heritage reports that Cellcom management...
January 24, 2013 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
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In what analysts had long expected, Liberia’s tax court has ordered that Libercell be sold. The move means the telecommunications company will be able to pay off its debts to the Liberian government, after it had failed to due so. The Tax Court of...
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 Sao Tomé &...
Less than a week after Libercell won a tentative court ruling not to suspend its services, the telecom operator finds itself back in the courtroom, this time over taxes. Liberia’s Supreme Court ordered Tax Court Judge Eva Mappy Morgan to resume...
A Liberian court has halted an intended action by the Liberia Telecommunication Authority (LTA) to cut off Lonestar Cell MTN services in the country. The court on Wednesday issued a stay of the order and has allowed Lonestar to continue to operate. The...
November 26, 2012 •
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Tension is growing within Liberia’s telecommunication sector after Lonestar Cell MTN threatened legal action against the Liberian Telecommunications Authority (LTA) for the second time this year. It comes as the regulator announced orders to suspend the...
The Heritage from Monrovia reports that management of LoneStar Cell MTN has described plans by Liberia’s Telecommunications Authority (LTA) to suspend its operating license for three days as “a serious security nightmare to the country”. The LTA...
The News in Monrovia has reported that Lonestar Cell/MTN recently dismantled transmission links with neighbouring Ivory Coast in accordance with an order by The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA). According to the regulatory body Lonestar...
Liberia’s Libercell, also known as Atlantic Wireless, has been shut down by the Liberian authorities in Monrovia. The shutdown was initiated by the Tax Court at the Temple of Justice and will only be lifted when the company pays $1.4-million in tax...
Liberia’s Cellcom GSM will today launch the country’s first 4G network. The country claims that it is the most advanced mobile Internet technology in the world and that it will double Cellcom’s current Internet speeds, while allowing users to...
