After a successful first season, the cultural magazine TV Y’Africa has been renewed for a second season. It is set to launch on today on 15 African national channels, as well as on the Orange’s YouTube channel. The new season of Y’Africa will consist of 8 episodes of 26 minutes highlighting 24 artists from 8 [...]
Orange CEO Stephane Richard has announced the company has no issue partnering with Huawei in Africa. Some European countries, such as Britain and Sweden, had banned the Chinese company while others have encouraged telecom operators to opt for European suppliers. “We’re working more and more with Chinese vendors in Africa, not because we like China, [...]
Orange Jordan has signed a three-year agreement with Nokia to deploy more than 100,000 units of Nokia Wi-Fi Beacons across the country. Nokia’s solution, including fibre modems and Wi-Fi beacons, will allow Orange Jordan to provide consistent Wi-Fi coverage even at the farthest places inside the premises. The Nokia beacons are available for both new [...]
Ivory Coast-based startup StarNews Mobile, a mobile video network enabling celebrities and influencers to monetize their fan bases in Africa, has collaborated with mobile operator Orange to deliver its high-quality video platform to Orange’s 150 million subscribers across 15 countries in Africa. Launched in July 2017, StarNews Mobile targets the mass market with a network [...]
Ethiopia’s finance ministry confirmed two final bids for new operating licences, with MTN Group and a consortium including Vodafone Group, Vodacom and Safaricom in the running to enter the market. The country’s overdue application process ended this week with the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance announcing final bids had been received from MTN, and a consortium [...]
Zeepay is planning to raise $10m in equity funding to support the creation of new mobile-money hubs in East and Southern Africa. According to Andrew Takyi-Appiah, Co-founder and managing director of Zeepay, the new hubs, which will consist of processing centres and back offices, are expected to be in Rwanda and South Africa. He adds that the use of [...]
Ethiopia’s communications regulator announced that it has received twelve bids for the two telecom licenses it intends to grant to multinational mobile companies, breaking the state monopoly. Th regulator stated that nine bidders are telecom operators and two non-telecom operators, and one submission was incomplete. Bidders consist of Etisalat, Axian, MTN, Orange, Saudi Telecom Company, [...]
International telco, Orange Group, is planning to extend its already substantial African footprint in highly profitable markets of Nigeria and South Africa. From its early period as France’s national telecom operator, Orange Group has been spreading its wings and is already present across Europe, The Middle East and Africa. According to the Chief Executive Officer [...]
Orange Morocco has launched Orange Money in the country to enable mobile users to make payments and transfer money using their phones. Morocco becomes the 18th country in the Africa and Middle East region of Orange to offer the Orange Money solution. Orange Money allows every mobile user, regardless of their telecom operator, the possibility of having a [...]
Connectivity in Central Africa will receive a major boost as Orange will be the first global telecom operator to blend satellite-based revolutionary terabit-scale O3b mPOWER communications system into its network. The move is to support the growing demand for connectivity in Africa. Orange is on track to adopt the SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite [...]