Telecommunications

Airtel Africa has disclosed its intention to roll out $750 million in capital expenditure this year to ramp up its mobile-money business across the continent as part of efforts to …

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, received a $1.3 billion fine for mismanaging user data. The fine was levied by the Data Protection Commission in Ireland, which oversees Meta’s operations …

Airtel Africa has successfully renewed its 2100 MHz spectrum license in Nigeria. The Nigerian subsidiary, Airtel Networks Limited, made a payment to the Nigerian Communications Commission for the license renewal. …

TECNO has launched “Magic Skin” in Africa, one of the industry’s newest and most innovative materials in smartphone design. The company is the first to launch the product in the …

Orange ended its exploration of Nigeria as a potential addition to its African footprint, as the Middle East and Africa CEO Jerome Henique (pictured), bemoaned a lack of market conditions …

After the grand success of the previous edition, Connected Africa is back, back much bigger stronger and larger than before, themed “Transforming to Telco’s of the Future”. The 3rd Edition …

Commercial 5G launches rebounded in the second half of 2022 as operators in developing markets – and notably Africa – turned on their networks. That’s one of the key findings …

Africa Data Centres and operator Orange are both making plans to use solar power for at least some of their data centre power requirements in parts of Africa. Africa Data …

Telecom Egypt chose IBM automation technologies to upgrade its OSS systems across mobile, fixed and core networks to enable the operator to reduce operational costs and minimise the time in …

It’s only been a matter of months since a new service provider, Celtiis, entered the Benin market. Now, however, the number three operator is apparently preparing to deploy 5G mobile …