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The appeals from both Vodacom and the Kenyan government aren't a sign that either party believes the court got it wrong.

Here is the uncomfortable twist in the GSMA's numbers: the people being locked out of AI aren't being locked out by a lack of towers or signals. More than 90 percent of the 3.4 billion offline already live within reach of mobile broadband.

Spectrum is only worth something if you actually build with it. Mafab paid $273.6 million for Nigeria's first 5G licence in 2021, then let it sit unused for four years — no deployed network, no customers, a deadline extension from the…

The real problem Nigeria's January 2027 payment data deadline is surfacing isn't whether local data centres exist — they do. It's that moving a database onto Nigerian soil doesn't make it resilient.

Uber's 25% commission versus Bolt's 15-20% sounds like the explanation. But both companies are extracting from the same drivers, in the same naira, selling to the same squeezed consumers.

A tenfold jump in transaction volumes is real progress. But notice what PAPSS's own CEO is saying alongside it: the next phase, starting 2027, is about getting banks and fintechs to actually route everyday payments through the network.

Eleven years out, now back at 7.4% of J.P. Morgan's new emerging-market bond index — that's a real signal, and it compounds the FTSE frontier reinstatement from September.