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Loon to Land Third Ground Station in Kenya

Wei Shi, Intelligence Content Manager, Telecoms.com & Site Editor, Connecting Africa, 2/14/2019

Telkom Kenya and the Alphabet subsidiary Loon will add a new ground station in Nyeri to expand Loon coverage. Two earlier stations are in place in Nairobi and Nakuru.

Telkom, Airtel Finally Get Engaged

Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, Light Reading, 2/11/2019

Having dated previously but split, Airtel Kenya and Telkom have rekindled their M&A desires and are now officially engaged, having announced their intention to get hitched in an effort to better compete with market leader Safaricom.

Why MTN Will Want a Jumia IPO

Wei Shi, Intelligence Content Manager, Telecoms.com & Site Editor, Connecting Africa, 2/11/2019

If Nigerian e-commerce giant Jumia executes an IPO and lists its shares in New York, as is rumored, such a move would be welcomed at the headquarters of network operator MTN, which could ease its debt load as a result.

WACS Subsea Cable Upgrade Completed by Huawei Marine

Wei Shi, Intelligence Content Manager, Telecoms.com & Site Editor, Connecting Africa, 2/6/2019

Huawei Marine has recently completed its second upgrade to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) undersea cable that connects many African markets to each other and to Europe.

Berkshire Partners Takes Control of Data Center Specialist Teraco

Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, Light Reading, 2/2/2019

As the data center hosting and cloud services market starts to pick up in key market across Africa, so the money starts flooding in. The latest example is the planned acquisition by investment firm Berkshire Partners LLC of a majority stake in Teraco Data Environments, a major provider of colocation data center infrastructure in South Africa. (See ...

Airtel Africa Gets Another Cash Injection, Adds Customers

Ray Le Maistre, International Group Editor, Light Reading, 2/1/2019

Airtel Africa, which operates in 14 countries across the region and has nearly 100 million customers, has secured more external funding as it prepares for an IPO.

Tech Startup Funding In Africa: A Deeper Dive into 2018

Connecting Africa, 1/31/2019

African tech startups have never been so attractive to investors, particularly if they're in Nigeria and focused on the fintech sector: That was the key takeaway from the first leg of this two-part feature. (See Tech Startup Funding In Africa: 2018 Hits Record High.)

Tech Startup Funding In Africa: 2018 Hits Record High

Tom Jackson, 1/30/2019

Africa's tech startup scene has been on an upward trajectory for the past few years, with the amount of funding flooding into the sector one of the main ways of tracking this trend.

MTN's Nigeria IPO Looks to Be Back On Track

Wei Shi, Intelligence Content Manager, Telecoms.com & Site Editor, Connecting Africa, 1/25/2019

Following a tough few months of financial stand-off between MTN and the regulatory and banking authorities in Nigeria, the prospects for the long-mooted public listing of shares in MTN Nigeria once again look to be favorable.

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South Africa Leads the World in Demand for Constant Connectivity

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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Not all Ka-band satellites are the same

African Tech Startup Funding 2017

Another Fine Mess for African Telecoms

Nigerian Telecoms Resiliency and Re-Emergence in the Face of Recession

Alternative Means of Connecting Africa: How service providers are adopting alternative technologies to improve broadband access in Africa

Can Telcos Take Over the African Data Center Space?

The Xalam Africa 4G Spectrum Value Report

The Connecting Africa Country Guide: Part 1

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African Tech Startups Funding Report 2016

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