Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has launched the fastest direct land-based fibre link connecting East to West Africa. This breakthrough coast-to-coast digital corridor follows the completion of Liquid Telecom’s new high-capacity fibre link running 2,600-kilometre (km) across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

This expansion connects millions of DRC citizens and thousands"...

Orange is partnering with itel, a mobile brand in Africa and KaiOS Technologies, maker of the leading operating system for smart feature phone KaiOS, to launch a new 4G version of the Sanza Phone, “Sanza XL”.

From December 2019, this mobile phone with voice recognition functionalities will be on offer for around 28 US dollars in seven countries in Africa and the Middle-East: Botswana,"...

MTN Group has selected Vanu to supply both equipment and services for as many as 5,000 mobile network sites in Africa. Vanu provides of equipment, tools and services that allow mobile network operators to profit by serving off-grid communities

Vanu's unique off-grid network systems will enable MTN Group to provide efficient and profitable connectivity solutions to previously unconnected communities."...

MTN Ghana has partnered with Ecobank Ghana and Samsung for a new Customer Device Financing programme for customers. With this programme, customers of both the telecom giant and the bank can get any Samsung smartphone from any of the 54 MTN Service Centres in the country.

The plan for this Customer Device Financing is to pay for the device in instalments. The duration spans from 6 months to 12 months."...

Industry Minister Djamila Tamazirt on Monday blew up a high-caliber case after announcing that there was no mobile phone installation in Algeria, as she put it.

On the sidelines of a field visit to Tizi-Ouzou province in eastern Algeria, the minister stressed that the committee, which is endeavoring to verify the integration"...

Intracom Telecom, a global telecommunication systems and solutions vendor, has announced the supply of its WiBAS™ Point-to-MultiPoint (PtMP) technology to Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), South Africa’s leading provider of open-access fiber infrastructure, to enhance DFA’s ability to provide state-of-the-art microwave connectivity solutions to its customers.

DFA’s decision to select"...

Liquid Telecom has won the ‘Most Innovative IoT Solution’ award at the recently held World Communications Awards in London. Liquid Telecom was recognised for helping thousands of fish farmers in Western Kenya and Nyanza to monitor and protect freshwater fish populations using Internet of Things (IoT).

The innovative IoT solution deployed in rural Kenya impressed the judges since it was"...

In its continued effort to fight against the exploitation of children on the internet, MTN Group has announced the launch of its Child Online Protection initiative by signing a partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). MTN is the first Africa wide Telecommunications Company to partner with the IWF.

MTN believes that everyone deserves the benefits of a modern connected life, and that all"...

South African telco, Vodacom, has launched a new affordable prepaid device offering for its customers that will see barriers to entry for more aspirational smartphones fall by the wayside. The high price of smartphones has long been an inhibitor for the majority of prepaid customers. Vodacom has taken an active step in driving financial and digital inclusion by now providing such customers the opportunity to purchase a 4G smartphone with an option to pay over a period of 12"...

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) announced today that it will commit to clear 300 MHz of C-band spectrum to support fast 5G wireless deployment throughout the continental U.S. In an updated filing with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the CBA detailed that the 300 MHz of spectrum includes a 20-MHz guard band to protect existing satellite services from 5G interference.

Further enhancing"...