Mobile operator Safaricom Ethiopia announced the upcoming construction of a new data center in Addis Ababa. The company signed a land sub-lease agreement with Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) to build a new Tier-III quality “telco-cloud data center” in the latter’s ICT Park outside the capital, and is reportedly investing around $60 million into this project.
Safaricom Ethiopia has begun a large-scale customer trial of its network after announcing plans to launch commercial operations in Ethiopia within the year, in Dire Dawa.
Telkom, South Africa’s third-largest cellular network provider, has termed the government’s proposed move to switch off 3G wireless technology by March 30, 2025, as “unrealistic.” The government published the country’s draft new policy on the broadband spectrum, which included plans to shut down the 2G network by June 2024, while the shutdown of the 3G network is scheduled for March 30, 2025.
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc (MTN Nigeria) kicked off an open 5G pilot in the lead-up to its highly anticipated commercial launch. The company, which intends to launch 5G services in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Owerri and Maiduguri, is testing the next-generation network infrastructure. Customers with certain enabled devices will be allowed to connect to and try out the new service where coverage is available.
World Bank Group's private sector, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), announced plans to invest up to US$160 million in Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia (STE), to enable the operator to finance its capital expenditures to provide quality telecom services in Ethiopia.
Cairo, August 22, 2022: Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cables operators in the region, announces the signature of a strategic collaboration agreement with Orange Jordan, the leading operator of integrated communications services and one of Orange Group’s subsidiaries, to create a highly reliable terrestrial system connecting Iraq to Europe through Jordanian and Egyptian territories.
Telecommunications company Vodacom Tanzania Plc launched Tanzania's first fifth-generation (5G) mobile network. The new technology is expected to accelerate the country's digital transformation with download speeds up to 40 times those of 4G.
Vodafone Ghana plans to expand its mobile network by up to 30% by the end of October.
MTN Sudan has announced the implementation of a new data analytics and AI solution to unify and correlate mobile operator and subscriber data into a single 360-degree view (enabling real-time decisioning). The roll-out of this new data platform, powered by LigaData, will accelerate MTN Sudan’s digital transformation strategy with the advanced use of data analytics.
The Communications Authority in Kenya(CA) has issued new guidelines requiring telecommunication companies to give credit rebates to customers in cases of network outages.
