Airtel DRC unveils new head office

Bharti Airtel Africa, the leading telecommunications service provider in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has unveiled its new regional head office in Matadi, Bas-Congo. While unveiling the new building to Jacques Mbadu, the Governor of Bas-Congo, Airtel DRC MD...

Airtel Money grows in DRC

Bharti Airtel, the leading global telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Africa and Asia, has announced at a media briefing that its mobile commerce service, Airtel Money, has hit the 1-million revenue-earning customers landmark in...

Mobile comms, money to drive DRC growth

The mobile communications markets of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia are still underdeveloped.While the population densities of both countries are among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, their active mobile penetration rates in 2013 were 36.4%...

DRC, BankservAfrica partner to use Tango

BankservAfrica partnered with Lusis Payments to provide Tango, a payment switching and processing software solution, in South Africa and across the African continent. BankservAfrica’s interoperable switching platform has successfully been running on Tango software...

Airtel, Movirtu sign agreement

Airtel, one of the world’s largest mobile services providers, has entered into a group-wide framework agreement with Movirtu, an innovator in virtual SIM solutions. The group-wide agreement follows Airtel’s successful launch of the Movirtu Share service in Madagascar....