Angola: Africell Angola Hits 5 Million Subscriber Mark and Will Roll-Out 5G in and Around Luanda

Africell's newest operation in Angola is proving that well-financed mobile competition can still energize African markets. Russell Southwood spoke to Christopher Lundh, CEO,… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Intelsat's Cellbackhaul Offers DRC Mobile Operators a New Business to Reach Remote Areas Not Connected to Fibre

With the growing spread of regional and national fibre, satellite operators have had to come up with new ways of selling their connectivity for mobile backhaul. Russell Southwood… Read more »

West Africa: GVA Ups the Fibre Speeds Offered to Canalbox Customers

This week Groupe Vivendi Africa upped the speeds offered to its Canalbox customers. In doing so it has increased the pricing stakes in what are often very uncompetitive francophone… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: How to Expand Wi-Fi Everywhere

Organistions like Zenzeleni have pioneered the use of mesh Wi-F in remote villages in South Africa to deliver low-cost Wi-Fi. This week Russell Southwood spoke to Edelquinn Njambi,… Read more »

Africa: YouTube Use in Three of Francophone Africa's Key Broadcast Markets - Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal Power Ahead While Cameroon Trails

YouTube is Africa's leading streamer and is a vital part of reaching new, young audiences and the diaspora. This week Russell Southwood looks at a comparison between YouTube… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Liquid Intelligent Technologies Expands National Fibre Infrastructure and Will Be Landing Party for Equiano International Fibre Connection

A combination of a more responsive Government and a lot of investment means that DRC in on the way to connecting ever larger parts of the country with fibre. The MNOs have money to… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Removes Tax Element From Mobile Device Registry

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Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Removes Tax Element From Mobile Device Registry

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Angola: Govt Takes Back Control of Movicel As Financial Crisis Bites for Dos Santos's Former Allies

Sold without a proper tendering process in 2009 to the allies of former President dos Santos former state-owned mobile operator Movicel is in financial trouble. Russell Southwood… Read more »

Africa: African YouTube Challenger Starnews Mobile Looking to Monetize Broadcaster Music and Comedy Archives, Attracts Snapchat Investment

Finding a business model for video streaming that works has been one of the key challenges for Sub Saharan Africa's digital economy. Users want to look at stuff but who is going to… Read more »

Africa: Raxio's Delayed Tier III Carrier-Neutral Data Centre in Uganda Looks Set for 1 May Launch, Also It Has Broken Ground in Ethiopia and Is Looking to Start in DRC

The Covid-19 year has delayed capital projects across Africa so it's good to see Raxio's delayed Tier III carrier-neutral data centre in Uganda now set to launch at the beginning… Read more »

Africa: AfricaXP's Premiumfree TV Bids to Become a Continent-Wide FTA Satellite Bouquet That Offers a Pay-TV-Like Experience

Given the continuing slow transition to terrestrial DTT in many countries, international satellite operators like Intelsat and SES are trying to change the broadcast landscape by… Read more »

Africa: Growing Low-Cost Rural Connectivity

The low-cost rural operator space has grown but given the size of the opportunity it has been mighty slow. This week Russell Southwood spoke to Michael Darcy, CEO and Founder of… Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: GITGE Doubles Down On Price and Capacity During Covid-19 - Will Roll-Out More FTTH Based On Pilot Results

Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea is one of the most under-reported telecoms markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. To right the balance a little this week we're running a translation of… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Streaming Music in the DR Congo

In the middle of May, Vodacom in partnership with Muska, launched DRC's first mobile music streaming service. Muska had already launched last year in Cape Verde and has wider… Read more »

Africa: Massive New Cable Around Continent to Connect 16 African Nations

In July last year Google initiated the Equiano cable. The announcement of the 2Africa cable which involves Facebook completes the second generation cable build announcements.… Read more »

Africa: African Broadcasting in a Time of COVID-19 - Reports From the Front Line in Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda

A month ago I wrote an article trying to anticipate the impact of Covid-19 on African broadcast. What follows is the first of a series of articles looking at how this impact is… Read more »

Africa: Vodacom Play Signs Up MGM and Will Roll-Out in Lesotho, Tanzania, DRC and Mozambique 'Within Weeks'

Mobile operators have found it tough rolling out VoD services in Sub-Saharan and in the main have not made a great success of them. One exception is Vodacom Play that is now… Read more »

Mali: Mali, DRC, Senegal Look to Digital Realm to Foster Economic, Societal Change

Over the last year, three Francophone countries have made a bid to raise their digital profile. Below follows an interview with Ms Kamissa Camara, Mali's Minister of Digital… Read more »

Africa: Legislating Africa's Digital Economy - Rwanda Commits to Protect Personal Data and Uganda to License Digital Platform Drivers

African countries have some tough choices to make about legislating the new digital economy. Africa's "big men" have often seemed to want to choke off social media with taxes,… Read more »