American Tower Corp has agreed to buy Eaton Towers for R27.2-billion as one of the few international providers of telecommunications infrastructure expands in the fast-growing African market.
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MTN Group has identified Ethiopia as a rare country where Africa’s largest wireless carrier will consider expanding beyond its existing footprint.
Huawei has filed a motion in a US court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecommunications equipment, the latest action in an ongoing clash with Washington.
Seacom said on Tuesday that it is adding eight new points of presence across Africa, including at the continent’s first Microsoft Azure data centres, in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko hopes to work with other industry players to present a plan to President Cyril Ramaphosa about how to deal with the challenge presented by the US’s blacklisting of China’s Huawei.
While its rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C struggle with flat growth in a tough economic environment, Telkom is killing it in the mobile business, showing astonishing growth in subscribers in the past year.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko on the group’s 2019 financial results.
Telkom is seeking an equity partner to help build more mobile network towers as the former South African phone monopoly seeks new ways to increase revenue away from its core, fixed-line business.
Telkom’s property management company Gyro plans to open many more buildings and high sites to other mobile operators as the partially state-owned company looks to extract more profit from its property portfolio.
MTN Nigeria said it has “not been accused of any wrongdoing” after reports emerged at the weekend that it’s being investigated by the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.