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- 22 Feb 2016
Vodafone Group Selects Ericsson For Global Customer Experience Management
Ericsson Expert Analytics has been selected by Vodafone Group as a strategic solution for Customer Experience Management (CEM) across 22 countries. Ericsson Expert Analytics is a real-time,…
- 30 Apr 2014
Mobile Operators Collaborate on Interoperability of Mobile Money across Africa
Nine mobile network operators, including Bharti Airtel, Etisalat Group, Millicom, MTN Group, Ooredoo Group, Orange, STC Group, Vodafone Group and Zain Group, have committed to work together to…
- 21 Sept 2021
Global Initiative to Give 3.4bn People Access to Smartphones
An initiative has been launched by Vodafone Group and the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to address the global digital divide. It aims to give an additional 3.4 billion people the…
- 4 May 2014
Nigeria to Miss MM Cross Border Remittance Deal
Nigeria will not be a beneficiary of the landmark deal struck by major telecom operators in Africa for the implementation of interoperable mobile money services across Africa and the Middle East…
- 21 Oct 2015
Vodafone Re-certified as Cisco Cloud, Managed Services Master Partner
Cisco has re-certified Vodafone Group Plc as a Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Master Partner worldwide. This comes after Vodafone reaffirmed its capabilities of delivering cloud and managed…
- 24 Feb 2016
HomeSend, Vodafone to Extend M-Pesa Remittance to 5 Markets in 2016
At the Mobile World Congress, HomeSend, the international payment and money transfer hub, announced the expansion of its global framework agreement with Vodafone Group for M-Pesa, including the…
- 4 Nov 2019
IHS Towers Appoints New Non-Executive Independent Directors
IHS Holding Limited (“IHS”), one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world and leader in EMEA by tower count, has announced…
- 18 Mar 2014
GSMA, Telcos Partner to Improve Mobile Access across Africa
Senior leaders from eight major mobile operator groups, covering 551 million mobile connections across Africa and the Middle East, plan to cooperate on network infrastructure sharing initiatives that…
- 27 May 2014
Telcos to Reduce Roaming Charges across Africa, Middle East
The GSMA has announced that senior leaders from nine major mobile operator groups, accounting for over half a billion mobile connections across 48 countries in Africa and the Middle East, are…
- 2 Apr 2024
Report Finds Africa’s SMEs Grapple with Tech Costs, Skills Dearth
Although small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa are increasingly investing in digital technologies, their innovation journey is hindered by the high cost of technology upgrades, the lack of…
- 8 Oct 2024
Vodafone, Google Deepen AI Ties to Bring New Services Across Africa & Europe
Vodafone and Google on Tuesday announced a ten-year strategic expansion of their existing partnership to bring new services, devices, and TV experiences to millions of Vodafone's customers across…
- 31 Oct 2022
Mobile Tech Tap to Drive Africa’s Financial Inclusion
New research urges African governments to work collaboratively with all role-players to introduce strong mobile tech-driven financial innovations in support of national development priorities and the…
- 22 Oct 2012
Bharti Airtel Now 4th Largest Operator in the World
Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa moved up one notch in the world wide ranking to be the fourth largest mobile…
- 18 Mar 2014
GSMA, Operators Thinker on Improving MEA Mobile Access & Affordability
GSMA and telecom operators have commenced moves with the initiative aimed at enhancing use of network infrastructure to connect underserved communities across Middle East and Africa. The move is in…
- 17 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…
- 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…
- 4 Jul 2024
9mobile Reposition with Appointment of Obafemi Banigbe as Chief Executive Officer
As part of preparation for a new phase of business transformation, the Board of Directors of Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS), operating as 9mobile, has announced the…
- 15 Jun 2015
Huawei, Vodafone in Strategic Alliance to Explore Global Enterprise Market
Huawei on Monday announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a new Strategic Alliance with Vodafone Global Enterprise focusing on the enterprise market in Europe,…
- 21 Jun 2019
Vodacom Unit to Sell Operations in Nigeria, Others
Vodacom Group Ltd., South African mobile phone operator, announced on Friday its plan to sell its Business Africa unit’s Angolan operations and assets to Internet Technologies, Angola, for an…
- 24 Mar 2015
Francesco Angelone Becomes CMO of Etisalat Nigeria
Management of Etisalat Nigeria has announced the appointment of Francesco Angeloneas as its new chief marketing officer. Angelone was previously the vice president-Commercial at Etisalat Group, where…
- 27 Nov 2018
MTN Executives to Resign as Telco Battles FG Fines
There are strong indications that some executives of MTN Group will exit the telecom firm in the next few months as the company battles to resolve its issues with the Nigerian government over the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 1 Nov 2017
$1b Fine: MTN Set for Lagos IPO
In a bid to settle $1 billion fine imposed on it by Nigerian regulators in 2015, MTN Group Ltd, has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering of its Nigerian business and should…
- 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…
- 3 Jul 2015
How Airtel Emerged 3rd Global Largest Mobile Operator
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa, has become the third largest mobile operator in the world in…
- 29 Feb 2024
Here Are the Economic and Social Impact of Bayobab’s Sub-sea Cable Landing
In the ever-evolving landscape of global connectivity, the unveiling of the 2Africa subsea cable stands as a testament to the power of collaboration and innovation. Spearheaded by the joint efforts…
- 28 May 2026
Bharti Airtel Named Fourth Largest Mobile Network Operator in the World
The top ten mobile network operators in the world account for roughly 3.8 billion subscriptions, about 43 percent of the 8.8 billion mobile lines in service worldwide as of mid-2024. The composition…
- 21 Mar 2016
Adekoya Takes Over From Sim Shagaya As Konga CEO
Konga Online Shopping Limited, Nigeria’s largest online mall company, has announced the appointment of Mr. Shola Adekoya, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Adekoya‎ takes over from the…
- 12 Nov 2015
Ericsson, Cisco Partnership to Spur Cloud, IoT Growth
Ericsson and Cisco, two industry leaders in the development and delivery of networking, mobility, and cloud – during the week announced a global business and technology partnership to create the…