Uganda is one of the fastest and most consistently growing economies in Africa. Fibre, mobile broadband and mobile banking are revolutionising the country’s telecom sector...

A new type of tax is emerging in Africa according to new research conducted by Deloitte and the GSMA...

Mali’s leading internet provider has installed new caching appliances to manage increasing customer demand for international Internet content...

Seven African countries will soon host new 3G networks deployed by Bharti Airtel, which is also planning a major expansion of its 2G (GSM/EDGE) networks across Africa...

A new financial institution in Mozambique has launched a mobile financial service aimed at the country’s unbanked population...

Research conducted by Deloitte has demonstrated that sales of mobile phones saw a significant boost in Kenya after the African country’s government scrapped value added tax on handsets in 2009...

Mobile money services have been launched in Nigeria by Lonestar Cell GSM, a member of the MTN Group...

With its potential largely untapped, the oil-rich nation of Sudan has plenty of room to grow...

Developing Telecoms’ Africa blogger Tom Makau takes a look at how operators’ excess power can be used for the benefit of rural communities in Africa...

Enterprise markets in Southern Africa are on the rise and Namibia’s licence-exempt market is no exception...

Despite being Africa’s latest exporter of oil, Chad has one of the least developed telecommunications markets in the world...

The African tower ownership and management company Eaton Towers has secured a major round of equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds (“CIPEF”), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets...

Uganda’s mobile sector is predicted to grow through to the end of 2015, while broadband subscriber numbers are expected to rise significantly between 2013 and 2015...

Far from being written off because of the growth in mobile, Africa’s fixed line operators have a golden opportunity to capitalise on the fibre revolution taking place on the continent...

France Telecom is reportedly close to signing an agreement for the acquisition of DRC operator Congo Chine Telecom...

The use of foreign currency as legal tender in Zimbabwe has been of great benefit to the country’s telecoms sector...

With a penetration rate of over 75% and the imminent widespread introduction of wireless and 3G broadband, Ghana’s telecoms sector has gone from strength to strength...

Mobile financial services are a hot topic - and nowhere is this more apparent than Africa, a continent with millions of unbanked mobile phone users. However, massive growth potential could may not be enough for investors if the cost of implementation is too high. DT editor James Barton spoke to Peter de Villiers, co-founder of Clickatell, to find out how to stop expenses from escalating...

Investors as well as local operators have been invited by the government of Kenya to take part in the construction of a wholesale LTE network...

A high-speed wireless broadband network is launching in Nairobi, Kenya, in the city’s Junction Shopping Mall area...

With increased growth in the African telecommunications market, competition has intensified. The market is nearing saturation and margins are increasingly coming under pressure. As a result, CEOs have to start considering rejecting strategies aimed at subscriber acquisition...

Kenya is reportedly considering employing a wholesale model for LTE rather than inviting operators to bid for their own spectrum licences...

With security concerns and bandwidth limitations now being overcome, Paul McKibbin,  Divisional CEO at Jasco Carrier Networks, looks at how South Africa is warming up to cloud computing...

With a high penetration rate, mobile subscriber numbers in Ghana are set to remain fairly constant but 3G is on the rise...

The growing uptake of smartphones and new social networking approaches to handling voicemail and SMS could help MNOs complete more calls and boost ARPUs, says Einar Lindquist, CEO of Teligent Telecom, in this bylined article...

The success of Kenya’s M-Pesa mobile money service has been underlined by the revelation that the service is now the country’s single largest source of revenue for its owner, Vodafone...

A new device launching across South Africa will provide users with high speed mobile internet without the need for an inflexible contract...

DT editor James Barton recently spoke to Charles Green, CEO of Helios Towers Africa, about starting out providing infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially a hostile environment, the infrastructure market is undergoing massive growth, with more investment likely in the near future...

The first deployment of 3G services in Niger could soon be underway, with reports indicating that the West African country’s regulator is preparing to hold auctions for two new licences...

Preparations for the upcoming launch of the Arabsat 5C satellite have been finalised by Central European Telecom Services (CETel Group)...

It’s not just the future that’s bright for Africa – there are plenty of opportunities right now if you know where to look, according to Deloitte’s Matthew Guest, Senior Manager in Strategy Consulting. DT editor James Barton spoke to him as part of a series of articles on growth in Africa...

One of the most prominent operators in Western Europe could be expanding into Africa...

The number of operators in South Africa’s already competitive mobile market could yet increase – and the market leader Vodacom has stated its opinion that this could be damaging to the market in the long term...