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TowerCo Gets $30 Million from UK Agency for Telco Towers in Tanzania
ToA Tanzania focuses on owning and operating passive telecommunications infrastructure for lease to mobile network operators.
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- Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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M-Pesa and Data Revenue Push Safaricom to First Profit Growth in Three Years
Revenues from M-Pesa grew 20% year-on-year, reaching $1 billion (KES140 billion) from $891.3 million.
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- Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Inclusion Requires Interoperability: Why All Digital Financial Services Should be Interoperable
As of 2021, there were 1.4 billion financially excluded people globally — over 1 billion fewer than there were in 2011. As Briana Marbury at the Interledger Foundation explains, mobile money and other digital financial products and services have helped to drive this progress, reaching populations that have traditionally been excluded. But she argues that this momentum has highlighted an emerging issue that could limit the impact of the growth in financial inclusion: the lack of interoperability between digital systems.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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Bayobab Acquires MTN Zambia’s Fibre Assets to Further Growth Plans
According to Bayobab, the milestone marks a major step in its strategic growth plans in line with the company’s 2025 targets set by MTN.
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- Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mauritius Telecom to Build Africa-Asia Subsea Cable – Report
The T4 cable is expected to replace the 13,500 km (8,400 miles) SAFE cable and will run a similar route that spans South Africa, Madagascar, La Reunion, Mauritius, India, and Singapore.
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- Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure
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MTN and Investec Partner to Bring PayShap to Mobile Money, Driving Financial Inclusion in South Africa
The partnership represents a major breakthrough in expanding financial services to South Africa’s unbanked population.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vodacom Tanzania Acquires Smile for $27.4 Million to Support 4G and 5G Rollout Plans
The agreement grants Vodacom access to Smile's 800MHz and mid-band spectrum. Additionally, Vodacom will use Smile’s 4G LTE network.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: E-Waste Is Being Generated Five Times Faster Than It Is Being Recycled
Worldwide, the annual generation of e-waste is surging by 2.6 million tonnes annually and is on track to reach 82 million tonnes by 2030, which a 33% increase from the 2022 figure.
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- Technology, Telecommunications, WASH
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- Global
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- circular economy, recycling, research, waste