Mobile transforms the face of African business

As Africa becomes more in-tune with mobile technology, companies will be looking at what they can provide for their business operations as well as their local economies. According to a survey by the Africa Business Panel, the smartphone penetration rate in Africa...

GSMA unveils Tanzania rural connectivity project

At Mobile 360 – Africa, the GSMA announced the launch of the first active infrastructure sharing initiative in East Africa between mobile network operators (MNOs) Airtel, Millicom and Vodacom. The MNOs have committed to launch six 3G pilot sites across the...

Internet Technologies Angola deploys Radwin network

Service provider Internet Technologies Angola (ITA) has deployed a national network using Radwin’s Point-to-MultiPoint solutions in the 2.2-2.3 GHz band. ITA provides business-class services to many of Angola’s largest corporations. Rolf Mendelsohn,...

Huawei joins Smart Africa

Huawei has joined the Smart Africa Alliance as Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) advisor and Platinum member at the Smart Africa Board Meeting. The partnership with the Smart Africa Alliance is one of Huawei’s efforts to drive digital...

Orange completes Airtel buy in Sierra Leone

Orange, together with its Senegal-based partner Sonatel, has completed the acquisition of 100% of the mobile operator Airtel in Sierra Leone. Since the signature of an agreement with Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV (“Airtel”) in January 2016,...

IFS signs up East African major cargo handling company

One of East Africa’s leading cargo handling companies has chosen the IFS Application Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite as its business management solution of choice. The cargo handling company will be implementing the IFS Finance, Maintenance and SCM...