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Uganda Wants 4,000 Wi-Fi Resellers on a List Before It Names Their Licence
UCC says thousands of public Wi-Fi sellers must register as it decides how they fit a licensing system that already allows regional service and capacity resale. The register is moving faster than the answer.
Africa Institutional Trends
Mozambique’s Digital Plan Has 2030 Targets. Its Approval Date Says “XX”.
Six implementation pillars, fourteen flagship commitments and a preliminary US$1.5–2.0 billion funding estimate give Mozambique’s digital strategy a serious scale. The official draft’s cover still leaves the Cabinet approval date as “xx”; the harder test is whether its proposed…
Africa National Telecom Trends
The Satellite Is in Orbit. Kenya’s Licence Stack Stays on the Ground.
The Communications Authority of Kenya has put a satellite-frequency rulebook out for comment. Its draft gives gateways, terminals and moving dishes different licence paths—and lets the spectrum clock follow a different service licence for each.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya’s 2.7bn cyber events need a counting rule
The National KE-CIRT/CC recorded 2,696,335,021 detected events in July–September 2026. Its report gives the total and six tidy subtotals, but no data dictionary linking a detection to an advisory, an incident or a defended service.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya Wants the Satellite Dish to Come With an Address Book
A beam can cross a border in milliseconds. Kenya's proposed satellite rules ask who keeps track of the equipment at the other end—and who answers when it causes trouble.
Africa Institutional Trends
Nigeria’s US$750m cloud bet has one big customer: the government
Abuja wants private capital to build a regional cloud market. Its plan starts with something the state already controls: what federal agencies buy, how they buy it and whether those contracts are predictable enough to finance new capacity.
Africa National Telecom
Three references, one document: who may sell capacity at Banjul, and where the record stops
The Africa Coast to Europe cable record places a landing point at Banjul and carries this company's name in an owners field. What a buyer of Gambian capacity needs next is the party entitled to sell over that landing, and an owners string does not name it. That gap carries a…
Africa Institutional Trends
Nigeria’s new Internet Governance Working Group needs a public remit
The Nigerian Communications Commission ties its new forum to online fraud, privacy and vulnerable users. The launch announcement leaves the group’s membership, remit and path into regulatory decisions unstated.
Africa Regional ISP
The ownership verb: what WIOCC's homepage claim actually measures
On 18 October 2026 WIOCC's own front page began stating a position in two named submarine systems. The same block gave three counters that each carry a unit, and the independent record retained alongside it counts routing adjacencies, not fibre. The gap between those two kinds of…
Africa National Telecom Trends
Morocco’s first non-licensee FTTH offer sets terms, not coverage
Morocco’s regulator has approved a passive fibre access offer from Uni Fiber, a joint venture outside the licensed operators themselves. The decision makes the reach of access rules more important than the label on the network owner: it governs infrastructure Uni Fiber…
Africa National Telecom Trends
South Africa Has a Wayleave Template. It Still Needs Municipal Adoption
South Africa’s next broadband build rule is being written in three places at once. The decisive test is whether a national template can travel through municipal adoption, permits and budgets without being mistaken for a permit itself.
Africa National Telecom Trends
KaliteNet can test your connection. Choosing the next one takes more.
Mauritius now has a public broadband-testing platform and a date for annual reports. The useful question is how a result on one phone becomes advice that another household can trust.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Congo's digital plan has approval. What happens after the meeting?
The steering committee can help ministries work together. Its next challenge is less photogenic: turning agreed tasks into services people can actually use.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya's alarm-fee proposal: why the sixth unit matters
A proposed annual rate of KES 680 sounds easy to budget for. But a five-unit billing rule would make the move from five alarms to six considerably more expensive than the headline suggests.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Smile's old licences have a new buyer in mind. What about users?
Smile Telecoms SA says it has provided no commercial services since receiving its licences around 2009. A proposed transfer to Sporic Solutions puts a more useful question than customer handover on the table: can those rights become a service people can buy?
Africa National Telecom Trends
A telecom tower's last day may not belong to its owner
Taking down a tower can save its owner money and leave another provider needing a replacement. Liberia's draft asks how to let an operator leave without treating a working connection as someone else's problem.
Africa National Telecom Trends
NuRAN can erect a tower in days. Getting it there takes months
The company's African contracts run into the thousands. Its next expansion depends on the much smaller numbers that pay for equipment, power and time.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Keeping your number should not mean chasing three companies
Mauritius wants mobile customers to take their number to a new network. Its proposed sole portability provider would make that choice possible; the difficult part is deciding who must put things right when the networks disagree.
Africa Institutional Trends
East Africa has revised its e-commerce baseline. What, exactly, is being counted?
A regional meeting has refreshed the starting numbers for the EAC's online-trade strategy. The next useful publication would let a reader follow a figure back to a country, a definition and the institution that supplied it.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigeria's MVNO draft puts a clock on the deal, not the first call
A proposed 120-day deadline would limit how long a host can take to conclude an agreement. The argument at Nigeria's public inquiry was also about what the host must agree to—and which costs come out before revenue is shared.