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National Telecom company intelligence covers national telecom operators, mobile network groups, fixed-line carriers, wholesale connectivity providers, and incumbent infrastructure companies in Africa, with enough context for readers to understand how these organisations build, operate, finance, regulate, and sell the infrastructure that supports digital markets.
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Libya's self-declared gateway operator does not appear in the measured record of the country's 2025 shutdown
The Libyan International Telecommunication Company presents itself as Libya's single international gateway. The independent measurement of 16 May 2025 names four Libyan access networks — none of them the gateway, and one of them under a name that matches no corporate identity the…
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Helios Towers: tenancy growth, a US$5.9bn backlog and the cash that arrived least
Helios Towers' H1 2026 report shows an operator winning the tenancy race and losing the cash-conversion race, and the gap between the two is where the investment case now lives. Tenancies rose 13%, revenue 11% and adjusted EBITDA 14%; cash generated from operations fell 16% and…
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MTN partners UAE investor on African data centres
MTN Digital Infrastructure has partnered with a UAE-based investment platform to develop AI-ready data centre capacity across Africa.
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Telecel completes 1,890 4G site upgrades in Ghana
Telecel has completed about 70% of its 2026 4G site-upgrade target in Ghana, with 808 sites still to be upgraded.
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A Tower Sale Does Not Sell the Power Bill
Selling passive mobile infrastructure can release capital and move steel, shelters and site operations to a tower company. It does not answer who pays when diesel rises, a generator burns too much fuel, a ground lease lapses or an uptime target is missed. Those outcomes live in…
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Kenya bandwidth rises 16% ahead of Daraja launch
Kenya’s international bandwidth is growing faster than utilisation, while Daraja would give Safaricom a new Oman–Mombasa route for sourcing capacity.
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Angola Cables' 2023 Route Leak Made Path Validation an Accountability Test
Angola Cables' 2023 Route Leak Made Path Validation an Accountability Test intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
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Orange Botswana and the price of covering a thin mobile market
A mobile account in Botswana looks small at the counter: a prepaid data bundle, a voice minute, a SIM swap, a home-internet router, a money transfer or a roaming charge. For Orange Botswana (PTY) Ltd, that visible price has to carry a much larger bill: spectrum, radio sites…
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Somcable and the price of resilience from Berbera
Somcable LTD is not best understood as a simple bandwidth supplier. Its economic value sits in a harder question: whether a Somaliland cable landing, a terrestrial fibre distributor, a wholesale buyer and a retail user can trust the same chain when politics, recognition, route…
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Angola Cables and the hard price of a South Atlantic shortcut
Angola Cables owns one of the most interesting routing bets in the Atlantic: a path that can make Africa-to-Brazil traffic feel local, but only if wholesale buyers believe the cable, data-centre and interconnection stack is worth paying for despite Angolan currency, power…
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Telecel Ghana After Vodafone: The National Carrier Test in a Repriced Mobile Market
Telecel Ghana After Vodafone: The National Carrier Test in a Repriced Mobile Market intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
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Orange Centrafrique and the Price of Keeping a Tower Alive
In Bangui, the price of a mobile connection is not only a tariff on a screen. It includes the fuel, security, cash liquidity, backhaul and repair discipline needed to keep a tower, a cash counter and a customer online in a country where grid power and road access cannot be…
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Mauritel and the desert coverage bill behind a cheap prepaid megabyte
Mauritel sells Mauritanian users a cheap prepaid path into the mobile internet, but every small data pass has to help pay for a national network stretched across desert towns, mining corridors, border roads, diesel-backed towers, fibre bottlenecks and maintenance teams that…
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TELCO S.A and the island arithmetic of scarce bandwidth
TELCO S.A and the island arithmetic of scarce bandwidth intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Africa…
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Malawi Telecommunications Limited and the Arithmetic of the Fixed Network That No Longer Works
Malawi Telecommunications Limited is not hard to identify. It is its valuation that is complex.
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SONATEL: Rent, Risk and Reach of a West African Incumbent Operator
SONATEL must be understood not as a simple Senegalese telecom operator, but as a rent-bearing infrastructure system whose revenues are generated by three superimposed layers of advantage: an inherited fixed-network and spectrum position in Senegal, a mass-market mobile and Orange…
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SCPT and the DRC Problem of Owning Infrastructure Without Monetising It
The Société Congolaise des Postes et Télécommunications, usually presented as SCPT SA or historically as OCPT, is best understood as a state infrastructure conversion problem. It is not just a postal company, not just a legacy telecom operator, and not a normal ISP. It sits at…
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Orange Madagascar: national telecom dependency profile
The dependency surface covers consumer access, enterprise connectivity and international reachability. If Orange Madagascar changes network investment, licence status, interconnection posture or international capacity, the impact can be felt across a national market where…