HUAWEI RELEASES FIRST 5G CUSTOMER-PREMISES EQUIPMENT

Last Sunday at the at Mobile World Congress, Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) launched its HUAWEI 5G customer-premises equipment (CPE), the world’s first commercial terminal device supporting the globally recognized 3GPP...

VODAFONE AND HUAWEI TEST APPLICABILITY OF IP MICROWAVE BACKHAUL FOR 5G

Vodafone and Huawei have completed lab tests which indicate that traditional IP microwave links will be considered a viable technology for 5G backhaul. 5G will play a critical role in meeting the...

MTN TO RAISE $500M FROM SALE OF SHARES IN NIGERIA

MTN Group plans to raise about $500m from the sale of shares in its Nigerian business during the first half of the year. This is in its quest to fulfill the terms...

INTEL ANNOUNCES IT’S OWN SET OF SMART GLASSE

Intel has recently announced it's own set of smart glasses that could change the world by bringing the internet closer to us. Although many companies tried developing similar set of glasses, majority...

AIRTEL AND STANDARD CHARTERED PARTNER TO LAUNCH NEW MOBILE MONEY PLATFORM

Airtel Zambia and Standard Chartered Bank Zambia has partnered to launch a new mobile money wallet platform dubbed “Straight2Bank.” This newly launched mobile money wallet is expected to give customers the chance...

EXPRESSO WORKERS HOLD DURBAR AHEAD OF CELLTEL RELAUNCH

Staff of Expresso Telecom are gearing up for relaunch of the company as Celltel after almost 20 years of shareholder battle in and out of court – which is largely to...

VODAFONE EYES EUROPEAN EXPANSION WITH LIBERTY GLOBAL DEAL

  Reports coming from the BBC suggests that Vodafone Group, the UK-based telecoms giant, has said it is in talks to buy some European assets owned by US cable company Liberty Global.The...

RURA ASSURES AIRTEL AND TIGO CUSTOMERS OF A SEAMLESS CONSOLIDATION AFTER MERGER

The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) has moved to reassure subscribers of both Tigo Rwanda and Airtel Rwanda that they will not lose out after it authorised the transfer of all...

SAN FRANCISCO TO BUILD CITY-WIDE FIBER INTERNET

San Francisco is planning to find network providers to build a city-wide, gigabite fiber internet with consumer privacy protections. The city-wide internet would be an open-access network, allowing multiple Internet Service Providers...

MTN HOSTS VERSION 5.0 OF ITS APP CHALLENGE AT UDS

MTN Ghana is hosting, it's version 5.0 of the MTN Apps Challenge at Univesity for Developement Studies (UDS) in Tamale in the Norther Region of Ghana. The Apps Challenge focuses on bringing...