The country has banned some telecoms executives from leaving the country after they resisted paying a new tax on the industry, sources said.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered mobile phone companies to pay a levy estimated at about $180-million/year, sources said.
Orange will find a successor to its chairman and CEO Stephane Richard after a Paris appeal court convicted him of complicity of misuse of public funds.
Dell Technologies will release software designed to help telecoms carriers manage the computers in their networks, deepening its push to become a major player in 5G technology.
France’s Orange sees no issue in working with Huawei in Africa, where the Chinese company dominates as a supplier of equipment to many telecommunications operators.
Facebook and Google are spending billions trying to get more people online in Africa, but the Internet giants are facing a backlash from governments worried about technology being used to remove them from power.
Huawei Technologies is positioning itself to get more business in Ethiopia, as the East African economy opens up its telecommunications sector.
Ethiopia opened the doors on Friday for telecommunications operators wishing to secure two new licences to submit their technical and financial bids.
Huawei Technologies, already getting squeezed out of Europe’s vast market for the next generation of telecommunications equipment, is under siege in another fast-growing business: cloud computing.
Standard Bank Group is planning to scale up some of its operations and further digitise its systems to fend off fintech firms encroaching on its client base.