MTN
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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Public hearings are underway in South Africa today as the regulator garners industry feedback on its call termination regulations implemented in 2014.
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IHS Towers has appointed a new VP and CEO to head its South Africa division.
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MTN has told all its employees that they must be vaccinated against Covid-19 if they are to work on the company’s premises.
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MTN Nigeria is planning to raise the equivalent of almost US$220 million in a bond issue to expand its 4G network.
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South African telcos Vodacom and MTN have joined Telkom SA’s case against the country’s regulator ICASA over plans to remove temporarily allocated spectrum.
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Ethiopia has called for proposals for a second private telecoms operator to compete with Ethio Telecom, the incumbent, and Safaricom, licensed earlier this year.
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South Africa’s telecoms regulator has abandoned its spectrum auction in the face of legal opposition but says it wants to run a new auction by the end of January 2022.
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MTN Nigeria has reportedly pledged to invest ₦600 billion ($1.4 billion) in network infrastructure over the next three years.
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Uganda’s Smart Telecom is closing operations at the end of August.
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Government officials in Ethiopia have told media that the country will open bidding for its second telecoms operator licence this month.
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Orange has formally submitted its interest to acquire a stake in Ethio Telecom, confirmed Ethiopia’s ambassador to France.
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The investor that is one of the biggest shareholders in MTN has bought Telenor’s Myanmar operation for just US$105 million.
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MTN has announced plans to invest the equivalent of US$1.5 billion in Nigeria over the next three years to expand broadband access across the country.
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MTN has appointed chemical engineer Eliane Houphouet-Boigny to be the CEO of its operation in Guinea-Bissau, in west Africa, from 1 July.
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MTN has picked two Indian companies and three US companies for its move to open RAN technology, which it plans to start this year.
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Companies have 30 days from today to tell the government of Ethiopia if they are interested in buying a 40% stake in state-owned Ethio Telecom.
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Telecom operators in Nigeria have been instructed by the NCC to suspend Twitter following a government order.
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MTN is considering making a second attempt to win a telecoms licence from Ethiopia, the CEO has told shareholders.
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Vodafone will spend US$8 billion on building its new network in Ethiopia, according to the country’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed.
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The successful bidders for Ethiopia’s telecoms licences will be able to offer mobile money services, according to a weekend report.
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Ethiopia received just two bids, from MTN working China’s Silk Road Fund and a US-backed and Vodafone-led consortium, for its two telecoms licences this morning.
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Season 2, episode 13 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guests Hannes Gredler and Richard Brandon from RtBrick.
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MTN, the South African telco, is reportedly eying up a valuation of more than $5 billion for its mobile money business.
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The Central Bank of Somalia has issued first ever mobile money licence to Hormuud Telecommunication, which operates EVC Plus.
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Both Orange and Vodafone have confirmed to Capacity that they are planning to bid for Ethiopian telecoms licences by the extended deadline of 5 April.
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Ethio Telecom, the monopoly provider in Ethiopia until two new operators are licensed in March, has hired KPMG to determine its economic value in advance of a part-privatisation.
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South Africa is to merge its national connectivity business, Broadband Infraco, with its Sentech broadcast network to create a state-owned broadband infrastructure operator.