Orange Botswana has rolled out LTE-A services, boosting data transfer rates on its 4G network. The upgrades are being branded 4G+ and have already been introduced in Greater Gaborone (which houses about 10 per cent of the country’s population) and Francistown, the country’s second-largest city. LTE-A services will soon be accessible in most parts of [...]
Mobile operator Vodacom will use Alphabet’s Loon balloon-carried base stations to extend its coverage in Mozambique. The balloons will be 20km above the ground in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa, in the north of the country close to the border with Tanzania. Loon’s CEO, Alastair Westgarth declared, “We view this as the first [...]
The government of Niger has awarded a 4G license to operator Zamani Com. Zamani Com is the new owner of mobile operator Orange Niger which has been awarded a 15-year license for the establishment and operation of a 4G network in Niger. The first operator to plan 4G offer in the country is Airtel. The [...]
Data provider, rain, has introduced an unlimited 4G data offering at R479 per month. The CEO of rain, Willem Roos said, “rain’s goal is to offer South Africans a choice of affordable unlimited data products. Following President Ramaphosa’s address to the nation pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic, we accelerated the go-live date of our 24/7 unlimited 4G [...]
Kenyans will enjoy high-speed and affordable internet facilities with the help of Google Loon and Telkom Kenya. This development comes after the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) signed an agreement with Google Loon, allowing them to fly their balloons over the Kenyan airspace beaming high-speed internet. President Uhuru Kenyatta said this will help Kenyans in [...]
Expresso Telecom has recently announced the launch of 4G which will be accessible to their customers as from the 31 March. “With the 4G Expresso, the experience will be much better in terms of connection, speed and reliability”, announced Fatou Sow Kane, the Commercial Director of Expresso Telecom. In addition to 4G, Expresso also plans [...]
9mobile is deploying its 4G LTE network to more Nigerian cities in order to expand its service offering to more customers. The company has added 10 new cities and towns across the country to its 4G network and upgraded LTE services in existing six cities, increasing the number of cities and towns enjoying its services [...]
MTN mobile operator South Africa, leader of the national telecommunications market, announces the extension of its roaming agreement with telecommunications company Cell C, the third largest operator in the market in terms of shares, to the entire national territory In addition to the coverage area, the new agreement between MTN and Cell C incorporates the [...]
Tizeti, the Nigerian start-up specializing in providing solar-powered wireless Internet connectivity, has announced the launch of its 4G service in Nigeria. The company works primarily in Lagos, Nigeria’s unofficial business capital and Port Harcourt is the fifth largest city in Nigeria located in River State, another commercial hotspot for the country According to Kendall Ananyi, [...]
The mobile phone operator, MTN Nigeria, has increased the pressure one notch in the telecommunications market. The company, still the leader in terms of subscribers and revenues, launched 4G + in the states of Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt. This increase in the capacity of its telecom network was achieved by combining the 800 MHz frequency [...]
