Dataxis has recently published its report on the Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) civil communications market. After years of significant growth, the decline in traditional video activity in the most developed countries is being sustained, resulting in a limited but steady decline in the turnover of FSS operators. The outlook for the future is equally becoming [...]
Group Vivendi Africa (GVA), the French media giant set up to develop telecoms in Africa, has signed a new agreement project with the Minister in charge of Posts, Telecommunications, and New Information and Communication Technologies, Augustin Kibassa Maliba, to launch Canalbox in the DRC Region, which will offer internet connection 100% fiber-optic broadband. Augustin Kibassa [...]
Cabo Verde Telecom have signed a joint cooperation agreement with Angola Cables, to expand connectivity and network capabilities.This new strategic partnership will also streamline closer commercial cooperation in the development of customised networking products and solutions that can be brought to market in the coming months. The SACS, WACS, MONET and EllaLink subsea cables will [...]
Eutelsat’s Konnect Africa and Vodacom Tanzania PLC have signed a service agreement for packaged services to bring connectivity to underserved regions of Tanzania, leveraging Eutelsat’s EUTELSAT KONNECT high-throughput satellite (HTS). Following a successful Proof of Concept trial, Vodacom will commercialise services on the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite under its brand, building out its service offer to [...]
Telecom Egypt has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme to maximise its capacity along the Mediterranean segment of Telecom Egypt’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system. This is set to give Telecom Egypt the highest capacity per wavelength, which the company says will reduce cost per bit and provide more spectral and power efficiency. [...]
Paratus Namibia, part of Pan-African telecommunications company Paratus, has been chosen by Ongos Connect, a company working with Ongos Valley, Namibia’s first smart city development, to bring fibre connectivity to over 11,000 new residents in the new city. The agreement is the conclusion of a two-year planning process during which Paratus has been working on [...]
Seacom, the pan-African telco, has completed the acquisition of Hirani Telecom’s metro fibre network in Kenya. Now under the full ownership and control of Seacom, the metro fibre network formerly belonging to Hirani Telecom will now be incorporated into Seacom’s existing metro network in Nairobi. This acquisition forms part of Seacom’s ongoing strategy to grow [...]
Ooredoo Oman, an Omani telecommunications company owned by Ooredoo, announced the expansion of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service to additional locations in the Sultanate. The Sultanate’s first privately owned telecommunications company, customers in Saraa in Al Buraimi, Al Bustan in Muscat, Al Bilad in Sur, Ibra, Hay Al Kawthar in Al Khoud, and Al Jinaynah [...]
Telkom Kenya has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ericsson and NEC XON to boost the operator’s network with an additional 2000 wireless sites by 2023. The agreement is worth around US$100 million, and forms part of the expansion strategy announced by Telkom Kenya in August 2020. The operator’s CEO Mugo Kibati said that [...]
Iraqi operator Asiacell has announced that it is extending its strategic partnership with Ericsson to enhance and improve its LTE services in the country. The partners state that the ongoing project will see Ericsson modernise and expand Asiacell’s LTE network and supply Asiacell with the latest radio access network (RAN) equipment from the Ericsson Radio [...]