Safaricom partners with Google and Transission, the company behind TECNO, Infinix and itel, to enable Kenyans to access more 4G devices under the Lipa Mdogo Mdogo financing plan. Through the partnership, Safaricom customers can access the internet and the world of possibilities via an array of smartphones that they can pay for as they use. [...]
Equity Telecom’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), Equitel, has introduced its fourth generation (4G) services in Kenya. The new 4G high-speed broadband network offers faster speeds to browse, stream, download and upload for customers in line with current market demands. Equity’s Group IT and Operations Director, Lanre Bamisebi, noted that the upgrade would improve customer [...]
UAE-based ISAT Africa and SES have inked a three-year agreement to launch 4G services in East Africa. The new service will be accessible first through SES’s O3b medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation to subsequently migrate and extended to SES’s next-generation MEO system, O3b mPOWER, in 2022. The Founder and Managing Director at iSAT Africa, Rakesh [...]
Telecom Egypt has rolled out its 4G voice calls service with VoLTE technology in the Egyptian telecom market. The launch was possible with the collaboration of Ericsson, as well as Nokia and Huawei on other networks. This provides customers with a high quality of voice calls and allow them to make calls and use data [...]
Zain Bahrain has selected Ericsson to expand its 4G and 5G coverage as well as introduce 5G low-band (sub-6GHz FDD) and mid-band (sub-6GHz TDD) Carrier Aggregation to extend its 5G coverage, network capacity, and provide an enhanced user experience with increased data speeds. Zain Bahrain is continuously evolving and expanding its 5G network using latest [...]
Mozambique Tmcel has partnered with Huawei for a $23 million 4G expansion deal where the operator will also prepare for 5G services across the country. Tmcel plans to extend its 4G coverage nationwide, beginning with upgrades to its networks in Maputo and Matola. “The implementation of the latest generation 5G technology, together with the project [...]
South Africa’s mobile and broadband operator MTN Group has picked five partners to roll out an open radio access network (OpenRAN) in Africa to expand 4G and 5G services more quickly and cheaply. A radio access network (RAN) connects individual devices to other parts of a network through radio connections. MTN said it will launch [...]
Ooredoo and Nokia have announced a partnership for the introduction of Nokia’s FastMile 4G and 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) solution, offering a better and faster Wi-Fi experience to customers across the Sultanate. Having begun deployment in February, the state-of-the-art service will provide up to 15,000 homes and businesses with superfast and reliable 4G internet. [...]
Huawei has secured the contract for the extension of 4G services in Ethiopia’s monopoly operator, Ethio Telecom. Ethio Telecom’s monopoly is set to be broken within the coming months. The CEO of Ethio Telecom, Frehiwot Tamiru, stated the move “opens a new chapter and brings an immediate impact on congested areas of telecom service”. The [...]
Mobile operator Zain rolled out 4G in South Sudan. The South Sudanese Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies and Postal Services has stated that the entry of the telecoms company into this market segment is the result of successful negotiations with the National Communications Authority (NCA). The CEO of Zain South Sudan, Khalid Abdalla, said, “We [...]