The EllaLink international submarine cable in Praia, Cape Verde, went live. This event comes as the culmination of a project that was born in 2018, when Cape Verde Telecom and EllaLink announced the signature of the contract of agreement to deliver connectivity from Europe and Latin America to Cape Verde. This partnership between Cabo Verde Telecoms and EllaLink has received the support of the European Bank of Investments and the local Government of Cape Verde.
Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr signed six new commercial and strategic agreements, a step that comes within the framework of a joint cooperation between both parties to maximize their returns and support the development of new technologically advanced services to end users in the local market.
Smile Group is a pan-African telecoms group that operates in Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It will benefit from a $120 million financing from its majority shareholder Al Nahla Group. This new capital injection will notably allow the company to expand its network footprint in Tanzania.
Airtel Africa has acquired an additional spectrum to bolster its service delivery in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Airtel Africa paid 42 million U.S. dollars for the 58 Megahertz (MHz) spectrum which will spread across 900, 1800, 2100, and 2600 MHz bands.
Safaricom and Visa have unveiled a new virtual card, called M-PESA GlobalPay, that enables customers in Kenya to shop using their mobile money account at more than 100 million merchants across 200 countries through Visa’s global network. This will both open e-commerce opportunities for M-PESA customers and make it easier for Kenyans when travelling abroad.
Mobile communications technology has been a crucial enabler of the information age, connecting individuals, businesses, and governments, and facilitating improvements in daily life for people everywhere. Connectivity is the lifeline of modern societies and access to it is a digital human right.
Orange Egypt and Ericsson announced the completion of Orange Egypt’s mediation consolidation, upgrade, and modernization. Ericsson Mediation is now used as the unified mediation in Orange Egypt and is considered as a central component of its enterprise architecture.
IHS Holding Limited, one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared communications infrastructure in the world by tower count has completed the acquisition of 5,701 towers in South Africa from Mobile Telephone Networks Proprietary Limited (MTN), one of the leading mobile telecommunications operators in South Africa. Under the agreement, IHS Towers is also providing power management services to MTN SA on approximately 13,000 sites, including the acquisition portfolio, across South Africa.
MTN, leader in the telecommunications sector in Cameroon, announced the signing of a Collaboration Framework Agreement with the Rural Electrification Agency (AER) to supply its rural sites with solar energy.
Djibouti Telecom took a giant leap in welcoming the landing of the new submarine cable 2Africa. An important ceremony was organized on this occasion at the beach Siesta under the patronage of the Minister of Communication in charge of Posts and Telecommunications, Radwan Abdillahi Bahdon, and in the presence of Djibouti Telecom representatives.
