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May 20, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Neo Sesinye •
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The Group’s overall restructuring path of cost cutting is a means to drive sustainable long term growth and reverse the downward trend in earnings. This move follows BT’s announcement last year of a reduction of 4,000 roles in similar areas, of which...
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May 19, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
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Vodacom, already the only telecoms company listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, is negotiating with the Tanzanian government and other cellphone operators about possibly expanding the company. Vodacom Group’s President and CEO, Shameel Joosub...
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May 19, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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Telecom operator, AirtelTigo Ghana has partnered with Ericsson to consolidate and upgrade its network infrastructure. The partnership will enable AirtelTigo to unify its network assets between former Tigo and Airtel and provide customers with fast internet...
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May 18, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion •
Danielle Kruger •
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Communications is critical to any successful business. Effective communication with your staff, customers and suppliers is what leads to effective outcomes. Oddly though, business communications tends to be something of a forgotten child in the IT family....
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May 15, 2018 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
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KT Corporation, South Korea’s largest telephone company, has completed the construction of Rwanda’s nationwide LTE network, the first in Africa, as part of its efforts to boost global exports in the field of information and communications...
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May 10, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
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China Telecom Global (CTG), a subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited – providers of integrated telecommunication services, and Liquid Telecom, a pan-African telecoms group, announced the signing of a historic strategic partnership whereby the two...
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May 2, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on 5G connection forecasts grow with deployment announcements
5G connection forecasts have risen, even before the first standardized 5G commercial deployments, according to 5G Americas, the industry trade association and voice of 5G and LTE for the Americas. By 2023, there are 1 billion forecast subscriptions for 5G...
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May 1, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Mobile Subscribers in Israel on the rise
Increasing number of mobile operators in Israeli will drive mobile subscribers to 11.3 million by 2022, says GlobalData. Israel has a relatively small population of almost 9 million people and a saturated telecom market with over five mobile operators and a...
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April 30, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, West Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on Orange Digital Ventures invests in African telecoms
Orange Digital Ventures Africa, the Orange investment fund’s new initiative for Africa launched last June, is proud to announce its first investment, helping Africa’s Talking to raise $8.6 million alongside the IFC World Bank and Social Capital. Based in...
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February 19, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion, Southern Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Policy implementation and failure holding back South Africa’s telecoms industry
Aside from laudable victories for competition such as the reduction in mobile termination rates, the South African telecommunications sector is becoming a tennis match characterised by endless sets of policy implementation decisions and policy implementation...
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January 26, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Virtualisation will reshape the telecoms industry
The hype around software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) is growing in the telecoms industry. The hope is that these technologies will enable service providers and network operators to drive down capital expenditure,...
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January 23, 2018 •
Features, Lists, Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on 5 things to expect from 5G in South Africa
At the beginning of 2018 MTN and Ericsson announced that they have begun the first 5G technology and applications trial in Africa. Mobile Internet usage has grown exponentially the world over, South Africa has in turn looked to leverage faster network...
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November 14, 2017 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on Nigeria: Airtel picks up three awards
On Saturday 11 November 2017, telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, was awarded three accolades at the Nigeria Technology Innovation & Telecom Awards (NTIT) 2017 organised by the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria...
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November 3, 2017 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Opinion, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on South Atlantic Cable System: A Paradigm Shift for Africa’s Telecommunications Sector
While Africa has traditionally been able to ‘leap frog’ the poor landline infrastructure on the continent by using mobile technology, the rapid rise of mobile devises and demand for broadband is pushing current infrastructure to its limits. In fact, the...
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October 24, 2017 •
Events, General, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on What’s in store for delegates attending AfricaCom 2017?
Anyone who’s anyone in African telecoms and technology will be in Cape Town at AfricaCom 2017 from 7-9 November. The continent’s single largest and most influential technology, media and telecoms (TMT) event, promises opportunities to witness future tech...
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October 23, 2017 •
East Africa, Events, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on AfricaCom 2017: Celebrating 20 years of Africa’s telecoms and technology journey
AfricaCom, Africa’s largest technology, telecoms and media event celebrates its 20th anniversary in November 2017, and promises delegates and exhibitors three days of thought-provoking content and cutting-edge technology and a glimpse into what the future...
