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- 15 Jun 2016
'Orange Money' Allows Funds Transfer From France to Three African Countries
Orange Money, a money transfer service offered by Orange mobile to its subscribers will now allow transfers from France to customers in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, and within Metropolitan France.…
- 20 Dec 2012
ACE Submarine Cable Connects 13 countries
France Telecom-Orange and the other members of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have announced that the ACE submarine cable is now operational for the first phase linking France and Sao…
- 21 Jun 2016
Aleda Declares Intent to Simplify Orange Money Service in Africa
Aleda, a French company specialising in paperless payment solutions and money transfers, has established itself as a key player in the sector with the recent launch of Orange Money. The Orange Money…
- 23 Jul 2015
Airtel Plans Sale of Subsidiaries’ to Boost Nigerian Operations
Bharti Airtel has commenced final talks to sell four of its African subsidiaries to France’s Orange SA for $1bn (N197bn) in order to consolidate its stake in Nigeria. After the sale, which should be…
- 2 Apr 2013
Orange Hands 2,000 Towers in African Markets to IHS
France Telecom-Orange has signed a 15-year deal to hand over the management of over 2,000 base stations in two African countries to IHS, a pan-African tower operator. Under the terms of the…
- 6 Oct 2015
Orange Digital Ventures Invests in Afrostream
Orange Digital Ventures has announced its participation in the funding of Afrostream, a subscription video on demand service (SVOD) of African, African-American and African-Caribbean films and…
- 29 Jul 2016
Orange Outlines Vision for Smart Metering, Solar Power, Others for MEA
Bruno Mettling, CEO of Orange Middle East and Africa (MEA), Jean-Marc Vignolles, Chief Operating Officer for Orange MEA and Ramon Fernandez, Deputy CEO and Chief Finance and Strategy Officer,…
- 31 Jan 2017
Nokia, Orange Group Collaborate to Shape the Future of 5G Services
Nokia and the Orange Group are to collaborate on the development of services that will allow industries and consumers to take advantage of the unprecedented efficiencies and business models made…
- 18 Jun 2019
Gwandu Urges Ethiopia to Learn from Nigeria's Telecom Deregulation
Dr. Bashir Gwandu, non-executive chair of the Commonwealth ITU Group (CIG) and the former commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has advised Ethiopia to learn from Nigeria as…
- 28 Dec 2017
9mobile Extends Christmas Roaming Offers to January
9mobile has extended its roaming offer which was launched during the Christmas season, for its customers. The double roaming packages affords them the opportunity to stay connected with family,…
- 12 Jan 2023
Report Identifies Regulations for Africa’s Sluggish 5G Readiness
The rollout of 5G connectivity continues to experience delays in Africa mainly because of market wrangling and regulatory holdups, with 13 out of the continent’s 53 nations connected to the…
- 6 Dec 2017
9mobile Splashes Roaming Customers with Double Offers @ Yuletide
Christmas is starting early this year as 9mobile, the leading customer-friendly telecommunications company, has launched double roaming offers to enable its potential and existing customers to stay…
- 16 Jan 2016
Orange Acquires Airtel Subsidiaries
Telecom operator Orange will take over Airtel’s operation in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone and effectively expand its reach in West Africa. The latest development comes only a day after the French…
- 30 Jun 2008
Informa Telecoms & Media Happy with Nigeria Telecoms Growth
After months of speculations, Nigeria has officially taken the lead as Africa’s largest telecommunications market, Informa Telecoms & Media (IT&M), organizers of the annual West and…
- 25 Mar 2015
Google, Facebook Build “Digital Prisons” in Nigeria, Others with Internet Freebies
Google and Facebook are at the forefront of a scramble to win over new African Internet users, offering freebies they say give a leg-up to the poor but which critics argue is a plan to lock in…
- 3 Jun 2015
Mobile Phone Access in Africa set to Double in Next Five Years
Eighty percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, double the current rate, although government help is needed to reach…
- 18 Nov 2015
Airtel Restructures, Sacks Staff
Airtel Nigeria on Tuesday said it had sacked some of its employees to enable it to reposition the business and “reinforce its competitiveness in the market place. The workers affected by the…
- 6 Apr 2018
Consumers Using Mobile Wallet to Total 2.1B in 2019 - Report
Nearly 2.1 billion consumers worldwide will use a mobile wallet to make a payment or send money in 2019, up nearly 30 percent from 1.6 billion recorded at the end of 2017, according to a new study by…
- 24 Jun 2020
5G: World is Abandoning China’s Hauwei- US
Mr Michael Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, has said that the “tide is turning against” Huawei, Chinese multinational telecom giant, in the sale of 5G technologies. The assertion comes amid efforts…
- 18 Sept 2013
Dolphin Telecom to Land $700m ACE Cable in Nigeria
Dolphin Telecom, a global communications carrier and operator of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable system in West Africa has announced that it would land the $700 million submarine…
- 23 Jan 2013
Maku Blasts French Firm over AFCON Blackout
Labaran Maku, minister of Information, has lauded Nigeria’s inability to broadcast live matches from the ongoing African Nations Cup in South Africa, saying it was in the interest of sports…
- 16 Oct 2013
Undersea Cable Investments Hit $3Bn
Nigeria’s broadband revolution has a new impetus with the princely $100 million financing facility between MainOne, West Africa’s leading open access broadband provider and some banks to further…
- 10 Aug 2017
Nokia Bell Labs Leads Project To Develop Next Gen 5G Platform-as-a-Service
Nokia Bell Labs is to lead a consortium of industry vendors, operators, IT companies, small and medium-sized enterprises and European academic institutions to build over the next 24 months the Next…
- 8 Dec 2009
Nitel Privatisation: Guiding against Previous Mistakes
The inability of Bureau for Public Enterprise (BPE) to conclude the sale of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (Nitel) within the 60 days as directed by Vice president Goodluck Jonathan, who is also…
- 18 Jun 2012
Orange Money Hits 4m Customers Mark, Launches in Jordan & Mauritius
Orange Money has reached the threshold of 4 million customers in Africa and the Middle East and celebrates its commercial launch in Jordan and Mauritius. These two additional countries mean that the…
- 30 Aug 2019
MainOne Submarine Cable Systems Scheduled to Land in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire
Making good on the strategic partnership with Orange Telecoms and its West African Affiliates (Sonatel and Orange Cote d’Ivoire) signed in September 2018, MainOne has confirmed the scheduled landing…
- 3 May 2017
Jumia Travel Records Double Digit Growth Monthly – MD
Kushal Dutta, managing director of Jumia Travel, has disclosed that the foremost online travel agency records double digit growth on a monthly basis. Explaining the company’s achievement, Dutta adds…
- 8 Apr 2016
Orange Completes 100% Cellcom Acquisition
Liberia will now become the 20th country in Africa and the Middle East to join the Orange group, as Orange has announced the completion of the acquisition of 100% of Cellcom, Liberia’s leading mobile…
- 8 Feb 2016
Orange to Acquire Millicom’s Subsidiary in DR Congo
On Monday , Orange and Millicom signed an agreement leading to Orange’s acquisition of Millicom’s operations in the DRC. The mobile market in the DRC is undergoing significant growth and is currently…
- 10 Feb 2016
Orange Unveils Entrepreneur Club for Start-Ups in Africa, Middle East
Orange is launching the Entrepreneur Club, a new space for information in French and English devoted to entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East. The website is a source of information for…