Tag: Africa

South Africa-based MTN Group has raised some R1.1bn (US$78.3m) in its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) public share offer, missing its target. The ...

Econet Wireless-owned pan-African fibre and satellite broadband provider Liquid Telecom has entered into a US$300m loan agreement to help finance its fibre expansion ...

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Mobile operator Telkom Kenya has named Sundararaman Pattabiraman as its new CFO, succeeding François Bresson. He joins from rival Safaricom, which is partly owned ...

Orange Egypt has reportedly secured a €500m (US$552m) loan from parent company French incumbent Orange to help pay for its 4G licence. Although there ...

South African telecoms giant MTN (JSE:MTN) has hired Ralph Mupita, CEO of Old Mutual Emerging Markets, as its new CFO, ...

CenturyLink has agreed a US$34bn deal to buy Level 3 Communications to combine the target’s global connectivity backbone with its larger enterprise customer base. Explaining ...

Eutelsat has agreed a satellite capacity deal with UAE’s Yahsat that puts its Broadband for Africa programme back on track following September’s Amos-6 launchpad explosion. The announcement ...

Intelsat has released Q3 results down on the same period last year but in line with guidance for 2016, as its ...