Telecom Operators

Moov-Africa announced it will deploy a submarine cable from Casablanca to Togo.

MTN has significant 5G plans in South Africa. Back in 2019, MTN, the biggest in Nigeria’s telecom market, conducted 5G trials in the cities of Abuja, Lagos, and Calabar, but all that could hit the rocks.

Telecom Egypt (TE), one of the largest integrated telecommunications operators in Egypt, is collaborating with IBM and Red Hat to help them develop an open, hybrid cloud strategy that will modernize their operations and accelerate their digital transformation journey. Telecom Egypt will adopt IBM Cloud Pak for Automation built on Red Hat OpenShift, to become more efficient, flexible and future-ready to support core operations and enable new digital services.

The monopoly in the Ethiopian telecom market is soon to end as two new operators will be licensed in March. For that, Ethio Telecom hired KPMG to determine its economic value in advance of a part-privatization.

South African multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN announced that the Group has concluded an agreement to sell, and thereby fully exit, its 20% shareholding in Belgacom International Carrier Services SA (BICS) to Proximus NV/SA.

Telecom operator Liquid Telecom South Africa has successfully completed the restructuring plan it began last year. Under this plan, the company has improved its skills and its team will be rebranding by the end of the year to clearly reflect its new ambitions.

According to MTN Group, South Africa’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, it is expecting its annual profit to rise by up to 70%, after the sale of Uganda and Ghana tower joint ventures.

Getinge, a leading global supplier of medical technology products and systems, chose Orange Business Services to deploy a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). The solution has supported the Sweden-based multinational’s network performance, while increasing security and supporting its cloud-first strategy. 

Bharti Airtel’s Africa operations reported underlying revenue grew 13.8% to $2,870 million is the March-December period according to the company’s financial results.

In a unique public-private partnership, MTN, Africa’s leading mobile network, has announced a donation of US$25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme.