As mobile and digital money become more widely used across Africa, so public and private bodies are responding to fears of fraud, as recent news from Ghana and Kenya indicates.
Airtel Kenya announced the separation of its mobile money unit from its core network operations as the operator complies with regulations set by the central bank, ending a process three years in the making.
Nigeria’s Globacom has joined the rush to open payment service banks (PSBs) with the launch of its MoneyMaster PSB offering. MoneyMaster was granted a payment service bank licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2020.
Uruguay’s Senate has approved new legislation that will end the fixed broadband monopoly held by state-owned telco Antel.
Pan-African operator Airtel Africa and ATC Africa, American Tower Corporation’s African operation, have announced a multi-year, multi-product agreement.
Google has announced the launch of a cloud region in South Africa, its first in the African continent. South Africa now joins Google’s network of 35 cloud regions and 106 zones worldwide.
South Africa’s MultiChoice Group is perhaps best known for its DStv satellite TV service that is a major force in sub-Saharan Africa. However, it has now aggressively entered the fibre internet market by bringing both DStv and internet into its own uncapped fibre products offering at heavily discounted prices.
After many pilots, it appears that Safaricom Ethiopia has finally officially arrived with the announcement that it has switched on its network and services in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
M Auto, a leading provider of electric mobility solutions in Africa, says it is utilizing secure, intelligent IoT connectivity from Aeris, a global IoT solutions provider, to help enable sustainable transportation across the continent.
Uzbekistan’s state-backed provider of fixed and mobile services Uzbektelecom has signed a raft of new deals with Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE.
Vodacom Business Africa, an enterprise-focused ICT subsidiary of the Vodacom Group has said that, having successfully deployed its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solution to several businesses in South Africa, it is now making the offering accessible to clients in all 47 operating countries across its African footprint.
The Oman-Australia undersea cable linking Perth and Muscat, is, according to the company that built it, ready for service.
Kazakhstan’s Republican Centre for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the country’s Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry, and SES, a provider of content connectivity solutions via satellite, have announced plans to jointly offer high-speed connectivity services to businesses across Kazakhstan.
India’s first 5G services went live over the weekend, with Bharti Airtel announcing its commercial 5G launch at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) event.
The Raxio Group, a leading pan-African data centre developer and operator, recently held a ground-breaking ceremony that formally kicked off the construction of its Tier-III carrier neutral colocation data centre, located at Beluluane Industrial Park (MozParks) in Maputo, Mozambique.
Hungarian telecoms operator group 4iG has agreed conditions to acquire a minority stake in Israeli company Spacecom, as part of a move for the company to launch Hungary’s first commercial satellite to expand coverage and services.
Khazna Data Centers, one of the largest wholesale data centre providers in the Middle East and North Africa, has signed a memorandum of understating (MoU) with GDS IDC Services (GDS), a Chinese company that develops and operates high-performance data centres.
ZTE and AIS have jointly launched Thailand’s first 5G innovation hub.
Tele2 Lithuania has launched a 5G service in Vilnius using its recently obtained 700MHz and 3.5GHz spectrum.
C&W Networks, a wholesale telecommunications service provider, says it is leveraging the GeoMesh Extreme product from networking systems, services and software company Ciena to upgrade its CFX-1 (Colombia-Florida Express) and EWC (East West Cable) submarine cable networks to deliver advanced broadband and IP services of up to 400Gb/s.
In the country’s latest initiative to improve fixed line connectivity for its population, Argentinian telecommunications regulator Enacom has approved funding for a programme to provide broadband internet in houses built and financed by the state.
Global digital operator Veon has announced that Banglalink, its operating company in Bangladesh, is rolling out next generation 4G networks nationwide across Bangladesh, with a launch reportedly now taking place in a major city.
Another private network has been launched in Brazil with the announcement from communications and IT services provider Speedcast that it has deployed advanced connectivity via a private LTE network powered by Nokia for a Brazilian energy integrator.
In response to what it describes as growing demand for high-quality data services, Guinean operator ETI SA is implementing digital enablement expert Alepo’s BSS Transformation. Alepo says that the advanced platform will modernize the operator’s existing FTTH services, as well as provide support for the future launch of its fixed LTE network.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) revealed 96% of the country’s mobile sites have been repaired after the country was devastated by heavy flooding.
International telecommunications services and investment company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin), and Zenlayer, a massively distributed edge cloud service provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the joint development of a digital connectivity platform that will provide on-demand subsea cable services.
Amazon has announced plans for its Mexico cloud unit to open a local zone early next year in what is, by many accounts, a fast-growing cloud services market in that country.
Digital business support systems (BSS) specialist Tecnotree is in the news again, this time after it announced a partnership with operator MTN Nigeria on a new initiative called Metamorphose.
The traditional approach for operators to run their business forever changing, now the telecoms industry needs to be more open to collaboration to truly thrive.
With the TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World event well underway in Copenhagen and welcoming an estimated 3,000 or more attendees, it seems an appropriate time for Tecnotree to make a TM Forum-related announcement.
South Sudan and Djibouti have reportedly signed a deal that will see a fibre optic cable laid across three countries.
Israel’s Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel says he is considering closing old copper networks and transferring all communications services to newer fibre optic infrastructure.
Tata Play Fiber, an internet service provider in India, has selectedsecure, AI-driven networks specialist Juniper Networksfor upgrades to its regional network.
Saudi Arabian regulator the Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has given more details on its planned non-terrestrial networks (NTN) 5G spectrum auction in the 2100MHz band.
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