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- 25 May 2016
IHS Towers Bags Africa Telecom Infrastructure Company of The Year Award
IHS Towers (“IHS”), the largest mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, has won the 2016 Africa Telecom Infrastructure Company of the Year Award at…
- 24 Dec 2019
IHS Towers, Nigerian Firm Buys Brazilian Telcoms Infrastructure Company
IHS Towers, Nigerian telcoms group, said it has agreed to buy Brazilian telecoms infrastructure company Cell Site Solutions (CSS) from Goldman Sachs and Centaurus Capital LP for an undisclosed…
- 6 Sept 2016
NCC to License more 5 Infrastructure Companies
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Tuesday said it would soon commence the second phases of the licensing of five new Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos) in the country, to bridge…
- 18 Mar 2024
Nigerian fintech Zone raises $8.5M seed to scale its decentralized payment infrastructure
Zone, Africa’s fast-growing payment infrastructure company (the “Company”), has raised $8.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by reputable VC firms Flourish Ventures and TLcom…
- 3 Jul 2019
MTN Group adds GlobalConnect to portfolio of Opcos
MTN Group has announced that GlobalConnect, the company’s wholesale infrastructure company, is now an operating company (Opco) of the group. The Opco, headquartered in Dubai, will continue to…
- 23 Mar 2021
Helios Announces Key Acquisitions to Advance Africa Aspirations
Independent telecom infrastructure company Helios Towers has signed agreements with Airtel Africa to acquire its passive infrastructure operating companies in Madagascar and Malawi, and has entered…
- 29 Jul 2021
MP-Infrastructure Bags BoICT’s Telecom Infrastructure Provider of the year Award
MP-Infrastructure, one of Africa’s leading infrastructure development and Management Company has bagged the Telecom Infrastructure Provider of the year award at the 2021 Beacon of Information and…
- 18 Mar 2016
InfraCo: ATCON Rues Delays, Seeks Multiplicity of License Per Zone
The Association of Telecomunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), has decried snail pace processes in the licensing of Infrastructure Company (InfraCo) to drive broadband infrastructure…
- 18 Dec 2025
Why Econet Wireless is Switching to VFEX
After nearly 30 years on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), Econet Wireless, the country’s biggest technology company, is preparing to leave the bourse and move its property and infrastructure assets…
- 12 Apr 2019
AfDB Approves $15million Investment Package for InfraCredit Company in Nigeria
The Board of the African Development Bank has approved a $15-million investment package to Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit), to support infrastructure financing through the…
- 21 Jul 2021
Agusto, GCR Affirm InfraCredit’s ‘AAA’ Long Term Credit Ratings
Rating agencies, Agusto & Co and Global Credit Ratings (GCR) have re-affirmed the “AAA” credit rating of Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Limited (InfraCredit), specialised infrastructure…
- 25 Feb 2021
FG Seeks Asset Manager for N15tn Infraco Fund
Federal government plans to hire an asset manager for its new Infrastructure Development Company (Infraco), designed to raise as much as N15 trillion ($36.7 billion) for infrastructural projects and…
- 19 Oct 2009
Telecom Operators Occupy 1,200 Collocated Sites
Some 1,200 collocation sites have sprung up across the country as more telecommunications companies embrace the cost-efficient solution that provides optimum performance for their equipment and…
- 23 Nov 2012
MainOne, Phase3 Telecom Join Hands for Broadband Delivery
MainOne Cable Company and Phase3 Telecom, wo leading indigenous telecommunications infrastructure companies, have penned a business pact to increase broadband Internet penetration in Nigeria…
- 2 Feb 2009
IHS Gets Listing on NSE
IHS Nig. plc has been listed by introduction on the floor of the Nigeria Stock Exchange. This was done last week after the company had undergone pre-listing requirements for listing on the NSE…
- 29 Apr 2018
Subsidy Agreement Delays InfraCos’ Service Rollout
The inability of federal government to workout subsidy agreement with licensed infrastructure companies (infraCos) for the deployment infrastructure expected to assist in transmission of bandwidth…
- 18 May 2023
AfDB Approves $15m to Close Infrastructure Gap in Nigeria
The board of African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $15 million subordinated loan to Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Limited (InfraCredit) to strengthen its capital base and help…
- 13 Jun 2014
NCC Opens Bids for Lagos Fibre Deployment
Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) has opened the bidding process for the licensing of infrastructure companies to deploy metropolitan optic fibre infrastructure and associated equipment…
- 17 Feb 2021
NSIA, InfraCo Set to Enhance Nigeria’s Infrastructure
The Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has said it will collaborate with the newly-established infrastructure company (infraCo) to support the development of Nigeria’s infrastructure.…
- 18 Aug 2008
IHS seeks Listing on NSE
Infrastructure Hi-Tech Services (HIS) a telecommunications infrastructure company, has received the nod of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to be known and styled IHS Nigeria, PLC The…
- 30 Jan 2015
InfraCo Licencing: MainOne Wins Lagos, North-Central Goes to IHS
MainOne Company has won the licence as the infrastructure company (infraco) for Lagos region, according to Dr Eugene Juwah, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).…
- 28 Jan 2014
Shareholders Allege N5.2Bn Fraud @ MTI, Telecom Infrastructure Builder
Shareholders of MTI Plc, a diversified infrastructure offering company, have petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission, (SEC) over the alleged involvement of …
- 23 May 2013
GE Africa Bags African Infrastructure Investment Award for PPPs
General Electric Company (GE) has been awarded the coveted African infrastructure investment award for Public Private Partnership in recognition for GE’s work in Nigeria on Energy (power…
- 2 Mar 2022
ATCON Seeks FG’s Intervention to Tackle Critical National Infrastructure Challenges
Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), has called on the federal government to rise up to the challenges affecting the distribution and maintenance of critical national infrastructure…
- 4 Aug 2026
Dimension Data to Channel Funds to Support Nigerian Fibre Expansion
Dimension Data has said that the proceeds from its Series 1 corporate bond, will support the expansion of the company's fibre infrastructure to meet Nigeria's growing demand for digital connectivity.…
- 26 Aug 2022
Agusto, GCR Affirm ‘AAA’ Long Term Credit Rating of InfraCredit
For the fifth consecutive year, rating agencies, Agusto & Co (“Agusto”) and Global Credit Ratings (“GCR”) re-affirmed the “AAA” credit rating of Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company Limited…
- 5 Aug 2018
RoW Approval: IHS Returns InfraCo License
Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) efforts to achieve 30 percent broadband penetration may have run into hitches as IHS, one of the companies granted infrastructure service provider (InfraCo)…
- 1 Nov 2019
NCC Seeks N65Bn Bailout for Infracos
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is to seek the Federal Executive Council’s (FEC) support in granting and disbursement of the planned N65 billion subsidy for Infrastructure Companies…
- 1 Mar 2016
Galaxy Backbone, WACREN Ink Agreement for Cloud Computing, Shared Services Infrastructure
Galaxy Backbone Ltd, a leading ICT infrastructure and services company in Nigeria is set to empower tertiary institutions and Research Education Networks (RENs) in West and Central Africa with its…
- 30 Apr 2018
RoW: State Govts Demand N600Bn from Telcos
Telecommunications companies licensed to deploy broadband infrastructure across the country will have to cough out about N600 billion in Right of Way (RoW) charges to the 36 states of the federation.…