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- 15 Jan 2024
Africa Pay TV Market: Additional 12m Subscribers Projected by 2029
The newly published Africa Pay TV Forecast signifies a notable expansion in the continent's pay television subscriber base. An anticipated surge of 12 million subscribers by 2029 is set to increase…
- 24 May 2017
MainOne Says Improved Investments to Drive Data Explosion in Africa
Ms. Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne joined experts at the International Telecoms Week conference in Chicago who highlighted the need to accelerate investment in Africa to facilitate the continent’s…
- 21 Oct 2014
Google Approves 6,560-Mile US/Brazil Undersea Cable Link
Google will soon starting the laying of a 6,560-mile (10,557-kilometre) undersea cable to link the United States (US) and Brazil. According to Sky News, the fibre-optic cable will have the capacity…
- 23 Jan 2015
Trusted Data to Tip Balance between Success, Failure This Year
The wheels are turning ever faster in the telecom industry. For every year, there are new and often unexpected developments. As we face another eventful year, industry expert David King, CEO of…
- 16 Aug 2021
2Africa Consortium Adds Nigeria, Other Landing Sites to Subsea Cable Network
The 2Africa consortium announced, on Monday, that it will extend the subsea cable that serves the African continent and Middle East region to four more branches. The consortium includes China Mobile…
- 15 Jun 2025
MultiChoice Reportedly Testing Weekly Subscriptions amid Use Decline
MultiChoice is reportedly testing weekly subscription plans in Uganda, aiming to ease financial pressure on customers struggling with monthly payments. If successful, the pay-TV giant may expand the…
- 19 Jun 2018
Nigeria Missing as Ghana, Others Lead African Telecoms
BuddeComm recently launched an exclusive Telecoms Maturity Index (TMI), that analyses the broadband, mobile and fixed Line markets of a country as well as a range of economic parameters to rank it on…
- 10 Feb 2019
Phase3 Named among "Companies to Inspire Africa" in 2019
Phase3 Telecom, West Africa's largest independent telecommunications infrastructure, has been penned as one of such in the technology and telecoms space by the London Stock Exchange Group (LESG).…
- 9 Nov 2020
Nnamani Gets Special Recognition for Contributions to Telecom Sector at NTITA 2020
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, the Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications Limited was on Saturday given a special recognition at year’s Nigeria Tech Innovation & Telecom Awards (NTITA).…
- 27 Nov 2023
Ikechukwu Nnamani Emerges AfriTECH Man of the Year
Engineer Ikechukwu Nnamani, the chief executive officer, Digital Realty Nigeria, has been crowned the Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH) Man of the year. Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani is the Chief…
- 26 May 2022
Nnamani to Chair 2022 DigitalSENSE Forum
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, president, Medallion Data Centres Limited, has been named the chairman of the twin event of the 2022 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D)…
- 27 May 2024
Nnamani Bags Lifetime Achievement Award @ABoICT 2024
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, CEO of Digital Realty Nigeria, received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent Africa's Beacon of ICT Merit and Leadership Awards organized by Nigerian…
- 14 Jun 2024
Ike Nnamani to lead speakers @NDSF on Internet Governance
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the most interconnected facility in West Africa, the Digital Realty Nigeria, Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, would lead speakers to the 2024 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa…
- 26 May 2025
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani Receives Two Prestigious @ABoICT Awards
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, CEO of Digital Realty, West Africa's leading interconnected data center facility, has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to Nigeria’s digital economy and the…
- 30 Oct 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa Telecoms Market to Reach $51Bn by 2021- Report
Sub-Saharan Africa's telecoms service market will be worth US$51 billion in 2021 and the retail telecoms revenue in the region will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% between 2015…
- 19 May 2022
U.S, China Battle for Africa Mobile Phone Sector- VOA
Africa, in recent years, has become the new frontier where China and the United States, the world's two biggest economic superpowers, are competing for influence in a key industry:…
- 13 Apr 2015
Reports Link Vodacom, MTN in Race to Acquire Visafone
Different reports at the weekend indicated that Vodacom Group Limited (Vodacom) and MTN Group are quietly competing in the race acquire Visafone, the only surviving Code Division Multiple Access…
- 26 Oct 2020
Ericsson Launches Graduate Program in Africa to Help Innovate the Future
Ericsson has announced the launch of its 2020 edition of the Graduate Program in Africa. The program aims to grow the technical skills of the graduates, train them in the Ericsson technology,…
- 11 Oct 2013
Microsoft Forms 4Afrika Advisory Council
Microsoft has introduced the 4Afrika Advisory Council, an external board of advisers tasked with guiding strategic investments undertaken by the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative. Benjamin Mkapa,…
- 8 Dec 2013
Microsoft Forms 4Afrika Advisory Council
Microsoft Corporation has unveiled the 4Afrika Advisory Council, an external board of advisers tasked with guiding strategic investments undertaken by the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative across the…
- 6 Mar 2019
Dangote, Adenuga Lead Black Billionaires List
Aliko Dangote, business mogul and Mike Adenuga, oil and telecoms mogul are the richest black people in the world, according to by Forbes, the influential American business magazine. Dangote…
- 6 Jul 2022
Study: Telcos Fastest Growing African Business Sector
The telecoms sector will be the fastest-growing industry in Africa over the next five years as internet connectivity improves, according to research from blockchain-based mobile network operator…
- 23 Oct 2013
SA Firm to Rollout Made-in-Africa Smartphone
A South African company hopes to rival the likes of Samsung and Nokia with home-grown smartphones tailored to African needs. Seemahale Telecoms, which already makes telecommunications equipment in…
- 6 Feb 2014
African Population Half to Be Covered by LTE Networks by 2018
Half the African population will be covered by LTE networks, as LTE base station deployment swells at a CAGR of 40% over the next five years, finds ABI Research. However, LTE network population…
- 24 Aug 2015
MTN, Liquid Telecom in Partnership for Broadband
Mobile operator MTN and network services provider Liquid Telecom have announced a partnership to provide their respective customers with access to a broader fixed and wireless footprint. In a…
- 2 Feb 2009
Business Activities Grounded as Sat-3 Shuts Down
Internet service delivery in the country has drop significantly since last week, no thanks to the shutting of under sea cable service, South Atlantic Terminal 111 (SAT-3) cable of Nigerian…
- 15 Jun 2010
Nigeria, Others Prepare for Broadband Banquet
By the end of 2011, the entire continent of Africa will be connected to no fewer than nine undersea broadband cable initiatives that would serve as Africa’s innovation catalysts, Nigeria…
- 23 May 2013
IMImobile, CCA Ink Content Licensing Deal
IMImobile, a leading global specialist provider of mobile data platform and services to telecom operators, enterprises and media companies, announced a strategic partnership with Content Connect…
- 15 Sept 2010
Broadband: WACS Battles Main One, Glo 1 with Price
West Africa Cable System (WACS), the submarine communications cable linking South Africa with the United Kingdom along the West Coast of Africa is planning an aggressive entry strategy including…
- 17 Oct 2013
NCC @ CATCO, Calls for Consumers Satisfaction
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has moved motion for the close examination of some consumer related issues peculiar to African countries as the foremost Conference of African Telecom…