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Remote work in Nigeria carries great promise, offering professionals flexibility and access to global opportunities. Yet, one persistent obstacle continues to weaken this potential:…
MTN South Africa and Ericsson say they have pulled off a world-first in mobile networking: a live core network upgrade without a single service…
Ethio Telecom and Huawei have completed the commercial deployment of the first batch of a Solar-on-Tower solution in Addis Ababa. The sites began stable…
MTN has spent the last few years executing on Ambition 2025, a plan that grew its subscriber base to more than 300 million across…
Kenya gets its first locally-owned undersea internet cable with the support of Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The Daraja project could end the country’s reliance…
Kenya’s fourth-largest internet provider just secured $4 million to expand its unusual approach to broadband access. Poa Internet received the debt funding from Finland’s…
Paratus Launches Namibia’s First Private Mobile Network Paratus Group has launched Namibia’s first private mobile network, breaking state dominance in the sector. Until now,…
The telecom operator has signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Huawei to completely rebuild its network infrastructure from scratch. This partnership represents T2mobile’s most serious…
In a groundbreaking technological leap, ZTE Corporation and MTN South Africa have successfully executed the world’s first commercial deployment of a 5-band Remote Radio…
Viamo has launched Ask Viamo Anything (AVA), a voice-first AI assistant that works on basic mobile phones without internet access. The service aims to…
Safaricom is advancing its flagship mobile money platform, M-PESA, with an ambitious target: to raise its peak transaction processing capacity from the current 4,000…
Africa’s telecom MTN has appointed Ferdi Moolman as the new CEO of its South African operations, replacing Charles Molapisi. MTN reports strong financial recovery…
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