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Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigeria’s Next Fibre Kilometre Depends on Who Clears the Roadworks
Nigeria’s fibre-cut figures point to a control gap that a bigger network cannot solve by itself. Before a road crew excavates, a project needs a verifiable record of the route check, the official who can release or stop the work, who pays for protection or relocation, and how the…
Africa National Telecom Trends
Vodacom’s MIMO trial answers a space problem, not the rollout economics
Vodacom says a compact passive-active antenna tested with Nokia in the Western Cape can add capacity at constrained sites, using 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz. It has not disclosed the site count, capacity lift, timetable or cost; the announcement establishes a deployment option, not a…
Africa National Telecom
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…
Africa Institutional
South African Post Office: the rescue is ending, the statutory bill is not
On 12 June 2026 the Post Office's business rescue practitioners asked the Pretoria High Court to terminate the rescue, reporting a balance sheet returned to a positive R840 million and a loss cut from R514 million to R71 million. No order had been granted by 17 August 2026, the…
Africa National Telecom Trends
Airtel Money’s 80% dividend target depends on thirteen cash routes
A London quotation can put a public price on Airtel Money. It cannot by itself turn customer trust balances or cash held in 13 regulated markets into a dividend at the Dutch parent. The route between profit and payment is the more useful listing test.
Africa National Telecom
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.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya opens fibre framework to multiple providers
ICTA can appoint up to 28 providers across two lots, then compete individual backbone, metro and cross-border requirements through later call-off contracts.
Africa Datacenter
Digital Parks Africa plans Lagos data centre
Digital Parks Africa has announced NDC1 in Lagos and engaged Uptime Institute for a Tier IV assessment, but no certification, capacity or opening date has been disclosed.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Gabon signs 20-year backbone deal with Gabon Fiber
Gabon Fiber will operate and expand the national backbone under a 20-year concession, with more than CFA41bn sought for 1,651km of new fibre.
Africa National Telecom
NIGCOMSAT orders NigComSat-2A from Thales Alenia Space
NIGCOMSAT has ordered a nearly four-tonne GEO satellite covering much of Africa, but no launch date, contract value or service-entry timetable has been disclosed.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigerian operators complete 70% of network-site upgrades
The NCC says 8,526 of 12,179 committed site deployments or upgrades are complete, while fibre cuts remain a separate source of disruption.
Africa National Telecom Trends
NigComSat-2A needs its own capacity catalogue
Nigeria's satellite operator has signed for a new spacecraft. The next commercial question is what a customer will be able to buy from it, on what terms, and through which ground services.
Africa Datacenter Trends
Cape Town data-centre approval faces appeal
Campaigners are appealing approval for two proposed Cape Town data centres as questions over zoning, water, and electricity remain unresolved.
Africa National Telecom Trends
US plans nearly $100m Africell network loan
US export financing could support Africell's network expansion in Angola and the DRC.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Africell's EXIM loan puts financing inside equipment choice
The announced $99.6 million facility links Angola network investment with export finance. Which equipment qualifies, how it is paid for and what it delivers remain different commercial questions.
Africa Institutional Trends
Ghana's spectrum result reveals three different markets
A US$100.9 million result for Scancom sits beside spare lots in one band and excess demand in another. The allocation rules matter as much as the headline fee.
Africa Datacenter Trends
NDC1's next sale is a defined slice of capacity
Digital Parks Africa's Lagos project puts an exacting question to future customers: which part of a proposed facility can safely anchor a migration commitment?
Africa Datacenter Trends
TNM's 52-rack purchase faces two different demand tests
The Kanengo handover gives TNM room for its own systems and an enterprise hosting business. Its earlier acquisition disclosure makes the distinction important: this was not a purchase of an established data-centre profit stream.
Africa Cloud Services Trends
TerraPay links 15 African wallets to Alipay+ merchants
The deal would let users pay abroad with their existing wallets, but the first phase still depends on each wallet going live on the Alipay+ network.
Africa National Telecom Trends
LuLu cable plans five Kenyan landings
LuLu is planned as a 500km coastal cable linking five locations between Mombasa and Lamu, with service targeted for 2028.