🇰🇪 Safaricom migrates M-PESA users to My OneApp in platform
Safaricom, East Africa's dominant telecommunications operator, is executing a strategic migration of its 56 million M-PESA users to a unified digital ...
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🇬🇭 MTN’s most valuable customers are in Ghana, and the numbers
MTN Group's 2025 financial data reveals a striking geographical shift in African telecom profitability—one that challenges conventional investor assum...
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🇳🇬 Airtel hits 650 million subscribers, becomes world’s second
Bharti Airtel, India's telecommunications colossus, has achieved a transformative milestone by crossing 650 million mobile subscribers globally, solid...
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🇰🇪 Telkom Kenya slides to smallest mobile operator in market
Kenya's telecommunications sector is undergoing a fundamental restructuring. Telkom Kenya, once positioned as a credible third player in East Africa's...
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🇰🇪 Kenya adds 9 million mobile money users but the easy growth
Kenya's mobile money ecosystem has crossed a critical threshold. With subscriptions climbing to 51.3 million users—a net addition of 9 million in the ...
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🇳🇬 How Nigeria’s CDMA operators built a market, then lost it
In 1998, Nigeria achieved a technological milestone that few remember today. The nation's first private telephone call travelled across a CDMA (Code D...
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🇳🇬 Shopping for Easter free from dropped calls
Nigeria's telecommunications sector faces mounting operational challenges that extend far beyond seasonal inconvenience. As the country approaches the...
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🇳🇬 A’Court dismisses NBC’s bid to overturn judgment
Nigeria's Court of Appeal has delivered a landmark decision that fundamentally reshapes the regulatory landscape for broadcast media in Africa's large...
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🇿🇦 MTN to invest R22bn in SA by 2028
MTN Group's commitment to invest nearly R22 billion (approximately €1.2 billion) in South African operations through 2028 represents a significant con...
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🇰🇪 Raila family among top bidders for Sh645m Telposta assets
** Kenya's telecommunications sector is entering a critical consolidation phase, as prominent business families—including the Raila-linked consortium...
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🇰🇪 Parliament okays Sh240b Safaricom share sale to Vodacom
Kenya's Parliament has formally approved a historic Sh240 billion (approximately €1.8 billion) divestment of the government's stake in Safaricom to So...
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🇳🇬 TIRMS, taking telecom and regulation a notch higher
Nigeria's telecommunications regulator has quietly introduced a regulatory framework that could significantly alter the operational landscape for the ...
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🇰🇪 PS lauds Safaricom for advancing AI to boost job creation
Kenya's telecommunications regulator and government have thrown their weight behind artificial intelligence adoption as a strategic lever for job crea...
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🇳🇬 NigComSat revenue jumps from $650m to over $2bn in two years
Nigeria's state-owned satellite operator NigComSat has achieved a remarkable financial milestone that reshapes the investment calculus for European en...
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🇰🇪 Savanna Fibre sparks price war in Kenya’s stagnant
Kenya's broadband market, long dominated by entrenched incumbents Safaricom and Airtel, faces its most serious competitive challenge in years as Savan...
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🇳🇬 Nigerians used 1.26 million terabytes of data in February
Nigeria's digital infrastructure experienced a notable correction in February 2026, with aggregate data consumption declining to 1.26 million terabyte...
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🇳🇬 Truecaller crosses 500 million users
Truecaller, the Stockholm-headquartered caller identification and spam-blocking platform, has crossed a critical threshold: 500 million active users g...
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🌍 Starlink to appeal Namibia licence rejection
Starlink's decision to appeal Namibia's rejection of its telecommunications licence marks a critical inflection point in the satellite internet operat...
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🇳🇬 New satellite plan nears execution stage ahead of 2028
Nigeria is entering a critical phase in its long-delayed space ambitions. The Federal Government has officially moved its next-generation satellite pr...
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🇳🇬 NCC orders telcos to compensate users for poor network
Nigeria's National Communications Commission (NCC) has introduced a landmark regulatory framework requiring telecommunications operators to automatica...
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