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MTN Nigeria has marked 25 years since it began commercial operations in the country, running an anniversary campaign tagged “We’ve Come A Long Way”…
The NCC has told operators to stop treating cybersecurity as a line item buried inside general IT spending. The Nigerian Communications Commission has directed…
Google-backed wireless optical communications company Taara has established a foothold in Nigeria, deploying laser-powered internet links across Lagos in partnership with Liquid Intelligent Technologies…
IHS Holding Limited shareholders have approved MTN Group’s proposed acquisition of the telecoms tower company, clearing one of the final conditions standing in…
Nigerians complain about two things with mobile data almost in the same breath: it costs too much, and it finishes too fast. Both complaints…
Everyone has strong opinions about internet providers in Nigeria, and almost none of them account for the one detail that actually matters: does fibre…
The NCC has signed a new agreement aimed at reducing the industry’s heavy reliance on diesel generators, one of the biggest drags on operator…
Ethiopia’s technology community gathered at the Adwa Victory Memorial Museum in Addis Ababa on July 25 and 26 for what organisers billed as the…
Starlink has officially launched in Côte d'Ivoire under a 12-month provisional licence, its latest African market. The approval came together in weeks, a sharp…
Nineteen Kenyan banks have signed on to PesaLink's new pricing model: free transfers under KSh 1,000 and a flat KSh 20 fee up to…
Kenya has introduced a mandatory licence for anyone importing or wholesaling phones, routers, and modems, effective July 21. The rules require IMEI reporting, type…
Esther Waititu, Safaricom's Chief Financial Services Officer and the architect behind M-PESA's Fintech 2.0 migration, has resigned, the third senior executive to leave the…
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