Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, has announced that its Nigerian subsidiary, Airtel Networks Limited ('Airtel Nigeria'), has purchased 100 MHz of spectrum in the 3500MHz band and 2x5MHz of 2600MHz from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for a gross consideration of US$316.7mn, payable in local currency

Eutelsat has joined the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Partner2Connect Digital Coalition

Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has announced it is now offering remote peering through its partnership with INX-ZA, further advancing the data centre giant's development in sub-Saharan Africa

Telecom Egypt in cooperation with Huawei Technologies has announced the implementation of the first eco-friendly, integrated solution to provide mobile networks via utilising environmentally friendly tower made of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP), with wireless availability

To support customers in South Africa and drive greater digital inclusion for all, Vodacom zero-rated more than 770 institutions and over 1,400 URLs, including government institutions such as the National Department of Health, National Department of Home Affairs and the National Department of Education

USTDA and DBSA (Development Bank of Southern Africa) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to enhance collaboration on accelerating large-scale infrastructure development across Africa

AXESS Networks, a global leader of satellite communications solutions, and Es'hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, have announced the strategic partnership agreement to provide Teleport and VSAT services for multiple sectors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

The Ghana Digital Innovation Week held in Accra, brought together tech and business leaders with policy advocates and academics, including professors of tech and machine learning

Pan-African payments technology company, Cellulant, has been named as the 'Top Payments Gateway Brand in Kenya” at the Top Star Brand Awards 2022

Using existing infrastructure, standard telco networks, Brastorne's technology has turned the continent's ubiquitous feature phones into internet portals for less than US$0.05 per day

MTN Benin and Ericsson have partnered on the deployment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solution in Africa to address throughput challenges

The potential of smartphones in the African market is vast. But are pricing and availability going to make things difficult for the consumer? Ron Murphy discussed the state of the mobile devices market in Africa with Arnold Ponela of IDC. The full article has been published on the latest issue of Communication Africa

Mobility 54 Investment SAS, the corporate venture capital subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO SAS, has decided to invest US$1mn in BasiGo Inc., a startup in the electric bus business in Kenya. The full article has been published on the latest issue of African Review