Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia announced that it will begin a phased commercial launch in Dire Dawa in August 2022. The telco will switch on its network in 25 cities across the country by April 2023, said Matthew Harrison-Harvey, Safaricom Ethiopia’s Chief External Affairs & Regulatory Officer. “Currently we are in a testing period to ensure that when we switch on, we will deliver a quality experience for Ethiopians,” he noted.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted an Approval in Principle (AIP) to Abeg Technologies Limited, a product of Piggytech Global Limited, as a Mobile Money Operator (MMO) in Nigeria, becoming Nigeria’s first social commerce platform to secure the CBN’s AIP for an MMO license.
MTN Cameroon announced the adoption of a new data analytics and AI platform to drive its digital transformation plans. The new solution unifies and correlates mobile operator and subscriber data into a single 360-degree view and enables real-time decisioning with LigaData’s Data Fabric and Flare products.
Etisalat Egypt announced it is launching “etisalat by e&” as its new brand, in line with the e& Group recent positioning as the global technology and investment conglomerate that digitally empowers societies.
The Board of Airtel Networks Kenya Limited has appointed Louis Onyango Otieno as Chairman and Ashish Malhotra as Managing Director to jointly oversee the firm’s next phase of growth.
Selorm Adadevoh, managing director, MTN Ghana, announced that the company no longer expects to roll out the pilot of 5G network in the country as planned.
To support the accelerated execution of their Ambition 2025 strategy, MTN Group announced the appointment of new CEOs for operations in Cameroon, Rwanda and Uganda effective 1 September 2022.
Having recently been awarded the 2600MHz Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum and proceeding with an extensive rollout plan, Orange Egypt will deploy the Ericsson Antenna System to build a 2600MHz network that will improve coverage, capacity, and throughput. With better wind load, lesser weight, and high port count integration, the Ericsson antennas are also set to help Orange Egypt significantly reduce operational site expenses.
Zimbabwe's telecom market is suffering from the current economic crisis. TelOne, a parastatal telecommunications company owned by the government, recently stated that it was struggling to keep its head above water in the current economic context while operators have to deal with rampant inflation and weak local currencies like their competitors.
Algeria Telecom, the leader in the Algerian telecommunications market has worked with NEC Corporation, a leading global IT and network transformation services provider, and Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, to roll out its modernized, nationwide IP metro commercial network to support current demand for increased capacity as well as future needs driven by 5G and FTTx.
