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Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/24/2019
Orange has met with authorities in Ethiopia about acquiring a stake in the country's telecom incumbent or bidding for a new license as the government tries to promote competition and encourage investment.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 6/21/2019
The Vodacom Group is selling out of its enterprise businesses in Nigeria, Zambia, Angola, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire
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Iain Morris, News Editor, 6/21/2019
Orange is confident it can maintain sales growth of 5% across its footprint of operations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) even as its mainstream consumer voice business goes into decline.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 6/21/2019
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that within the next 30 days the country will finally get some concrete direction when it comes to mobile spectrum allocation.
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Tom Jackson, 6/20/2019
Tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are betting big on cloud computing in Africa as the market looks set to experience significant growth in the coming years.
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The Staff, 6/19/2019
A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has upheld a recent government suspension of South African-based telecoms operator Vodacom's 2G telecoms licence in the country.
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 6/18/2019
South Africa's new merged communications and telecoms departments will be known as the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT).
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The Staff, 6/17/2019
Airtel Africa has revealed the price range for its planned IPO on the London Stock Exchange. The operator, a division of Indian telecoms giant Bharti Airtel, has set the range at 80 pence-100 pence per share, which values the operation at between GB pound 3 billion and GB pound 3.62 billion (US$3.79 billion and $4.57 billion), excluding any ...
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Paula Gilbert, Editor, Connecting Africa, 6/14/2019
Ooredoo Algeria has taken the first step towards next-generation networks with the successful deployment of what it claims is North Africa's first virtualized mobile gateway.
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Steve McCaffery, President, International Sales & Managing Director IBO, Arris, 1/3/2019
South Africans have the world's highest expectations for connectivity.
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