MTN Group announced a solid set of third quarter operating results, plans for a public offer of shares in MTN Nigeria, progress in finalizing a passive infrastructure deal for MTN South Africa as well as in our work to create shared value across our 20 markets, with ESG at the core.
In order to improve and upgrade its network in the country, MTN Group is investing $120 million in South Sudan over the next three years.
Telkom Kenya has partnered with Ericsson and NEC XON to expand the companies’ 4G mobile network. Telkom aims to invest nearly $100 million to deploy 2,000 telecom sites across the country by 2023.
Nigerian mobile operator Globacom signed a multi-year contract to purchase wholesale telecom capacity from French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications.
Oracle and Orange announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement as part of a joint plan to accelerate cloud-led digital transformation in West Africa.
For the second year in a row, MTN Group has been named the most valuable African brand in the Brand Finance Africa 150 rankings, which assigned the group a brand value of US$2.7 billion – US$1.0 billion above the next most valuable brand.
Egyptian Minister of communications and information technology, Amr Talaat, oversaw the renewal of the IoT partnership between Telecom Egypt and Nokia, to deploy the country’s first IoT infrastructure through Nokia’s global network WING (Worldwide IoT Network Grid).
Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa (VMMEA) announced that it has achieved net zero carbon emissions across all of its own operations. Through its partnership with Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence, VMMEA gathered and assessed available data under Scope 1 (direct), Scope 2 (indirect energy), and Scope 3 (indirect value chain) to calculate its group-wide total emissions. The emissions calculations were used to create and implement sustainable processes for the year-on-year reduction of VMMEA's overall emissions.
MTN Group have been recognized as the leading African company on the recently revealed World’s Best Employers 2021 list.
Vodafone Group and ITU, the United Nations’ specialized agency for information and communication technologies, launched an initiative to address the global digital divide. In line with the Broadband Commission Global Targets 2025 on affordability and connectivity, the new Working Group’s aim is to provide an additional 3.4 billion people the ability to access and use the internet through a smartphone by 2030.
