TMT Finance Africa 2019 returns to London on November 28 with a renewed agenda, investing in the next phase of digital infrastructure and the leadership strategies for growth and cross-border investments in Africa. There will be over 70 TMT C-level key financial decision makers announced to speak from across telecoms, infrastructure, smart cities and fintech, with […]

STC has marked the start of its participation at GITEX Technology Week, the largest technology exhibition in the region, taking place in Dubai, in the presence of the Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in attendance of STC Chairman, HRH Mohammed Bin Khaled Abdullah Al-Faisal, and STC Group CEO, […]

Lenovo Foundation is partnering with Jangala to provide Wi-Fi access and hardware donations in education centres for refugees across Africa. Jangala, a charitable non-government organisation (NGO) is working to meet refugees’ needs with its ‘Big Box’ connectivity solution. It creates Wi-Fi that is ‘easy to manage and scale’, to support thousands of users in a […]

Epsilon, a cloud-centric global connectivity and communications service provider, has partnered with ORIS Telekom, Turkey’s fast-growing telecoms provider, to deploy its award-winning software-defined networking (SDN) platform, Infiny by Epsilon, in Turkey. The partnership agreement includes the launch of a joint Point of Presence (PoP) in the TI Sparkle data centre located in Istanbul, which is one of the most diversely […]

An agreement has been reached between fonYou and a mobile operator in Egypt to deploy its iCarrier Data platform for the distribution of hyper-personalised airtime, data bundles and other carrier products. It is a new-generation platform that enables mobile carriers to predict and optimise their real-time responses to customer needs, even when they run out […]

Companies building fast, secure and reliable network for residential and businesses across fixed and mobile services.  Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator, and Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, have a signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Cairo cementing Juniper’s position as a strategic technology provider for Telecom Egypt. This MoU […]

Gobabis now has lightning fast reliable fibre Internet access. Paratus Africa, a private telecommunications operator in Namibia, is offering its standard range of fibre packages to Gobabis businesses and residents. Paratus recently completed a national fibre project, connecting from the WACS landing station in Swakopmund eastward to the border of Botswana and dropped off in […]

Nokia is helping Ooredoo Algeria take the first step towards next generation networks and reinforce its technology leadership in the region with the successful deployment of North Africa’s first virtualised Mobile Gateway. This is a crucial step for the migration of core network elements to the cloud and paves the way for the transformation of […]

Batelco, Bahrain’s leading digital solutions provider, has expanded its wide portfolio of network back-up solutions for MPLS and dedicated Internet service with the deployment of a fully-redundant MPLS network with active backup capabilities for Ithmaar Bank. This project positions Ithmaar Bank, a leading Islamic retail bank, as the first bank in Bahrain to deploy the […]

Sparkle, a leading international service provider in Italy and among the top 10 global operators, has announced the opening of a new Point of Presence (PoP) in Aqaba, Jordan, in cooperation with Naitel, an integrated Jordan based operator with proprietary data centres and a nationwide network. Located close to the Red Sea, Aqaba has the potential […]