MTN
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Ericsson has completed an overhaul of African operator MTN’s network in Kigali, Rwanda to prepare the East African country for 5G. -
IHS Towers, Africa's largest telecom tower company, has renewed and extended leases on 13,500 sites with its largest customer and shareholder, MTN Nigeria, until 2032.
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MTN is planning the construction of its largest West African data centre, according to several reports.
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MTN Ghana will invest US$1 billion to expand and improve its network by 2025.
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Guinea has enlisted the help of MTN to bring back a state-owned operator that was declared bankrupt in 2012.
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MTN is to spend the equivalent of US$1 billion on expanding operations in Ghana over the next five years.
Forthcoming events
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MTN Zambia has launched its first 5G network pilot platform in the country, promising faster connectivity speed, ultra-low latency and greater bandwidth.
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MTN has added west Africa’s Côte d’Ivoire to the list of countries where it is working with Canadian infrastructure supplier NuRAN Wireless
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More than a decade after South Sudan won independence from Sudan, local operations of Zain and MTN are continuing to pay licence fees to the government of Sudan.
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African operator MTN is to expand its rural network in Sudan via a US$125 million network-as-a-service (NaaS) contract with Canadian infrastructure company NuRAN.
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South Africa’s MTN is in talks to buy its domestic rival Telkom, the operator revealed in an announcement earlier today.
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Africa’s MTN group has announced three new CEOs, all of them women, and two of them CEOs for the first time. They take up their posts on 1 September.
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IHS Towers has completed the acquisition of 5,701 towers in South Africa from MTN, in a deal valued at 6.4 billion South African rand (US$412 million) that makes it the country’s biggest tower operator.
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African operator MTN is to sell BT’s business solutions to its customers under a deal between the two companies which also affects MTN’s wholesale relationship.
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Capacity shares four system update stories making headlines today.
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MTN GlobalConnect has acquired MTN Business Kenya, allowing it to expand its digital wholesale and infrastructure services into the Kenyan market.
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South African operator MTN is to modernise its network in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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African group MTN is following the example of the former Liquid Telecom and rebranding to reflect its status as a technology company.
