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MTN Bids $2.2 Billion to Regain Control of IHS Towers, Including in Cameroon
MTN has signed an agreement to acquire the shares of IHS Holding Limited (IHS) that it does not already own, in a transaction fully paid in cash.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Amazon Wins Approval to Enter Nigeria’s Satellite Internet Market
The move opens competition with Starlink in the LEO satellite segment.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest
We've counted the votes in NextBillion’s “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest, an annual tradition since 2012. The three winners are listed in this article. Congratulations to these guest writers, and to the other contestants in the contest, whose insights have clearly resonated with our readers this past year. And thank you to everyone who voted — and everyone who read and wrote for NextBillion in 2025. Best wishes for the new year!
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4
NextBillion’s “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest has been an annual tradition since 2012. As we do each December, we’ve highlighted 12 of our most-read articles from the past year: You can find links to them in this article, or on the homepage below. We invite you to read them and vote for the ones that influenced your thinking the most. You can vote up to once per hour between today (Dec. 19) and 11:59 pm EST on Jan. 4. We thank you for your support and engagement over these past 20 years, and we wish you a happy and prosperous 2026.
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Airtel Africa Partners SpaceX to Roll Out Starlink Direct-to-Cell Connectivity Across 14 Markets
Under the partnership, Airtel Africa becomes the first mobile network operator on the continent to offer Starlink Direct-to-Cell services.
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Uber Eats Alum Lands $14 Million Seed from a16z to Fix WhatsApp Chaos for Latin America’s Doctors
Solving the WhatsApp communication challenge in Latin America is critical because, according to Merin, patients in Latin America often choose their doctors based on their willingness to communicate using this channel.
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- Latin America
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Meta Completes 2Africa, the World’s Longest Open-Access Subsea Cable
On key routes, the network is said to offer up to 180 terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity — more than all existing subsea cables serving Africa combined.
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Vodacom and Starlink Partner to Connect Africa
Vodacom Group and Starlink have partnered to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband Internet to businesses across Africa.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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