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MTN Nigeria has launched Y’ello Y’Fi, an enterprise Wi-Fi and analytics solution built for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It bundles internet connectivity with…
Read the storyMTN South Africa has reached a peak download speed of 10.35 gigabits per second in a trial that points to where mobile networks are…
Before you hand over money for that “slightly used” iPhone or Samsung, you can now check whether Nigeria’s telecoms regulator will accept it on…
Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa, began conditional trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market at 8:00 a.m. on Friday,…
Ghana’s 5G market is entering a new phase as telecom operators move towards independently deploying next-generation networks following the government’s decision to end the…
Nigeria’s first digital connectivity investment forum has put a six-month clock on one of its most ambitious goals. Participants agreed to secure funding within…
Swift Telephone Network Limited (STN) has secured a Unified Access Service Licence (UASL) from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The licence allows the Lagos-based…
Airtel Uganda has switched on Airtel Starlink, letting customers send messages from places with no mobile signal, with no dish or extra hardware needed.…
Nigeria has cut the delivery timeline for its $2 billion national fibre network from five years to three. Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital…
Lebara Nigeria has officially launched full nationwide commercial operations, entering a market of about 179.64 million active phone lines. The UK-based company operates as…
Mafab Communications paid $273.6 million in 2021 for a 100 MHz block of 5G spectrum. Nearly five years later, the company is seeking regulatory…
Airtel Kenya Telesonic, the wholesale fibre arm incorporated in 2022, is being wound up and struck off by December 2026. Its accounts show no…
Your phone probably already supports eSIM. All four Nigerian networks now offer it, and activation is free. So why is almost nobody using it?…
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