Airtel Africa
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Airtel Africa’s newly launched wholesale division, Airtel Telesonic, has successfully activated its initial phase of the 2Africa submarine cable system -
Airtel confirms the launch of Airtel Africa Telesonic (Telesonic), a fully owned Airtel subsidiary and fibre wholesale company.
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Olusegun Ogunsanya (pictured) will retire as CEO of Airtel Africa this year, with Sunil Taldar stepping up to take the top job.
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Yashnath Issur, the former head of global data centre portfolio management at Amazon Web Services, has been hired as CEO of Airtel Africa’s new data centre subsidiary Nxtra.
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With the latest financial reporting season well upon us, Capacity rounds up the top line findings from five telcos in third quarter 2023.
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Airtel Nigeria has purchased 100MHz of spectrum in the 3500MHz band and 2x5MHz of 2600MHz from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for US$316.7 million.
Forthcoming events
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The development arm of the World Bank has lent Airtel Africa US$194 million to expand services and improve sustainability in six countries.
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Airtel Africa’s Tanzanian subsidiary Airtel Tanzania has purchased 140MHz of additional spectrum spread across the 2600MHz and 3500MHz bands from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) for a cash sum of US$60.1 million.
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American Tower Corporation (ATC) and Airtel Africa have entered a multi-year, multi-product agreement which will see the two work together on new sites and product development capabilities across Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda.
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Africell has appointed Godfrey Efeurhobo as group chief commercial officer to accelerate growth in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and to strengthen market leadership in Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
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Mobile operators in Zambia have set up a trade association to lobby the government on the industry’s behalf.
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As several companies from around the world of telecoms share their Q2 results, here is a financial round-up with all the key points.
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Airtel Africa confirms that subsidiary, Airtel Kenya Networks Limited (Airtel Kenya), has purchased 60MHz of additional spectrum in the 2600MHz band from the Communications Authority of Kenya.
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Airtel Africa has bought additional spectrum worth around US$42 million in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Airtel Africa has joined the Joint Alliance for CSR (JAC), an industry body that promotes sustainability through supply chains.
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Airtel Africa has extended its memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Helios Towers and will not be renewing its agreement with the telco in Chad.
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Airtel Africa, marked its membership of the FTSE 100 share listing this week with revenue up almost 25% and earnings up 34%.
