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- 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…
- 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…
- 17 Sept 2018
MainOne, Orange Deal Targets Cable Extension into Francophone West Africa
MainOne partnership with French Telecoms company, Orange will see the French telecoms giant co-invest in two new cable landing stations in Dakar, Senegal and Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire while the…
- 29 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…
- 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…
- 14 May 2020
Facebook, Telcos Unveil A Transformative Submarine Cable for Future Internet Connectivity in Africa
Facebook, China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC announced that they will partner to build 2Africa, which will be the most comprehensive subsea…
- 18 Nov 2020
Djoliba, New Submarine Cable System to Connect Nigeria, 7 Others
Orange, French telecoms firm is championing Djoliba , a new submarine cable system that is expected to boost Internet access across West Africa will connect Nigeria with Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire,…
- 22 Feb 2016
Operators, Google, GSMA Align Behind Adoption of Rich Communications Services
Global operators, including América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Globe Telecom, KPN, Millicom, MTN, Orange, PLAY, Smart Communications, Sprint, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera,…
- 21 Jan 2016
MTN, Another Firm Fined $160m for Tax Evasion
The local units of mobile telecom companies, MTN and Orange in Cameroon, have been fined over $160 million for failing to pay taxes on games and gambling services, the Central African nation's…
- 28 Feb 2020
Orange, SES Partner to a New Era for Satellite Connectivity Innovation
Orange will be the first global telecom operator to integrate satellite-based revolutionary terabitscale O3b mPOWER communications system in its network, to support the growing demand for…
- 14 Sept 2015
ConSol & Mellanox Partnership is Symbolic- Adeoye
Abiodun Adeoye is the Managing Director of Contact Solutions Ltd “ConSol”. He has consulted for various telecom operators around the globe (KPN-Orange Belgium, Vodafone Netherland, SBC Technologies,…
- 22 Feb 2010
MTN, Others Partner on Global Applications Platform
MTN Group and other large mobile operators have joined forces to launch an open international applications platform, marking the largest unified move to date by the operator community into the mobile…
- 16 Jan 2013
Nigeria Faces AFCON Blackout over TV Rights
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest television viewing audience may be denied the privilege of watching the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in South Africa, because her inability to dole out 8 million euros TV…
- 17 Jan 2013
Orange on Lookout for New Businesses with Orange Horizons
Orange has launched a new subsidiary called Orange Horizons that aims to seek out new business opportunities in countries where the Group is not already present as a mass-market telecommunications…
- 8 Dec 2009
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Swift Networks, Nigeria’s leading broadband company said that it has signed a turnkey (design, deploy, optimize and support) agreement with Huawei Technologies to implement its network upgrade…
- 20 Nov 2014
GSMA Partners Child Helpline International to Promote Child Protection
GSMA has marked the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)1 by forming a partnership with Child Helpline International (CHI) to protect young people and…
- 22 Oct 2025
GSMA, Top African Operators Join Forces for $30 Smartphones to African Consumers
The GSMA’s new partnership with six major African telecom operators, recently, launched a major for $30–$40 4G phones to bridge access gap and connect 50 million new users in Africa. The development…
- 12 Jan 2017
NarrowBand IoT Enterprise App Market Will Surpass $8m by 2022
The Narrowband IoT market size is expected to grow from USD 320.5 Million in 2017 to USD 8,221.3 Million by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 91.3% during the forecast period. The…
- 25 Aug 2015
How Telcos Can Benefit from $7.1tr Cellular M2M, IoT Industry
Given the tremendous industry growth, machine-to-Machine (M2M)/ Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of top business drivers for leading telecom operators across the globe, and the market in…
- 25 Jul 2017
9mobile Asks Citi, Standard Bank to Shop for Investors
9mobile, the mobile operator formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria, has appointed Citigroup and Standard Bank to find an investor to buy into the firm and three companies have shown interest, a banking…
- 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…
- 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…
- 11 Jul 2015
Telecoms Companies, Research Firms Join Forces on 5G
A group of 16 leading players in the field of telecommunications are joining forces to advance the development of a new air interface below 6 GHz for 5G networks. The “FANTASTIC-5G” (Flexible Air…
- 21 Jun 2021
CBN, Huawei Clouds and Five others Join IXPN Network
The Central Bank of Nigeria, Huawei Clouds, and five other organizations have recently joined the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN). Mr. Muhammed Rudman, Chief Executive Officer of IXPN…
- 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…
- 8 Feb 2024
Bayobab Lands 2Africa Subsea Cable in Nigeria, Ghana
Bayobab, a provider of pan-African digital connectivity solutions, yesterday landed the 45,000km-long 2Africa cable in Ghana and Nigeria. The MTN Group-owned company announced the landing, saying…
- 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…
- 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…
- 30 Dec 2015
Huawei’s Mobile Broadband 2020 StrategyOutlines Plans for Next Five Years
Huawei announced its “MBB 2020 Strategy” on the opening day of the 2015 Global Mobile Broadband Forum, outlining a new mobile broadband blueprint for the next five years. “From now until 2020,…
- 22 Feb 2024
MTN Partners Bayobab to Land Longest Subsea Cable in Nigeria
Bayobab, a pan-African digital connectivity solutions provider, has partnered with MTN Nigeria to land a 45,000km subsea cable in Nigeria. Known as ‘2Africa,’ the cable landing station is at…