Category: Mobile & Telecoms

London, United Kingdom, February 4, 2019/ — Investment news provider TMT Finance, today predicted that over $10 billion telecom, media and technology ( TMT) infrastructure mergers, acquisitions and fundraising  would happen in Africa, this year.

Lagos, Nigeria, February 4, 2019//-Globacom (Glo) says it is ready to bring innovation to the financial transaction process in the country with the launch of its mobile money platform tagged ‘Glo Mobile Money,’ which is expected to become a reality in a couple of weeks.

Accra, Ghana, February 2, 2019//-Popular Ghanaian veteran dentist and Chairman of Afriwave Telecoms, Dr. Francis Apiagyei Poku has died at age 83. 

January 30, 2019//-For telcos to keep and grow market share, the network division needs a makeover that lets it shed its cost-center past to become a leading function that influences the digital and analytics metamorphosis of the core.

January 24, 2019//-Uganda has deported another telecom provider MTN’s executive, an Italian national, accused of inciting violence.

Accra, Ghana, January 23, 2019//-MTN Ghana Foundation has extended the submission of nominations for MTN Heroes of Change Season 5 to 25th January, 2019.

Accra, Ghana, January 18, 2019//-MTN Ghana on Thursday injected dynamism into the country’s infant digital music content industry.

January 15, 2019//-India’s Bharti Airtel is in talks to buy Telkom Kenya, the country’s smallest telecoms operator, to create a stronger challenger to market leader Safaricom, three industry sources told Reuters on Monday.

January 13, 2019//-The recent crisis of confidence between Teleology Holdings, preferred bidder of 9mobile and its Nigerian local partners, resulting in the pulling out of the deal by the former is seen by analysts as tainting the country’s investment outlook.