Where fibre goes, business and growth will follow

The transaction provides Vodacom Tanzania with access to important spectrum held by the small operator, which will help it grow 4G and 5G network services.

The R&D centre will focus on 5G, artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud computing, and digital financial services.

The launch of Tigo Fibre marks the first time in Tanzania that fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business services will be made available.

MoMo users can now send money to more than 200 million wallets, across 24 African countries.

Using Infinera FlexILS and GX Series DWDM equipment, latency on the new route is 123 milliseconds and the Infinera equipment can support wavelengths of up to 800Gb.

Q-KON SA has been distributing and implementing, or helping to implement, voice gateways for nearly 25 years.

Brand Finance named MTN as the country’s most valuable brand, followed by rival telco Vodacom.

For the 2024 edition, the programme will return to its physical form, with Huawei exposing participants to 5G technologies, cloud computing, and AI.

Vivek Badrinath joins the company board of directors from Vantage Towers where he served as CEO and board chair.

Apple announced that iPhones will support Google’s Rich Communication Services messaging in 2024.

This follows recent changes to MTN Group's leadership structure, which took effect on 1 April.

Mike Silber is joining MTN Group from Liquid Telecom, where he held the role of group chief regulatory officer, for the five years.