Mobile, Telecom & Connectivity
The latest Mobile, Telecom & Connectivity stories, scored against the thesis and threaded over time.
Starlink Uganda: the licence matters less than what MTN already proved
Uganda's Starlink launch is a connectivity headline. But the more interesting story happened before today.
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MTN Posts $7.18 Billion H1 Revenue and Record Margins, Nigeria and Ghana Lead Growth
Latest: New reporting names Dubai-based tycoon Al Ashram as MTN's partner in the 150MW AI data centre programme, adding deal-partner specificity to the Africa Data Hub spinout.
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Nigerian Telecoms Sector Posts ₦5.2 Trillion GDP Contribution, Two-Year High
Latest: New data attributes Nigeria's 10.38% telecoms sector growth and ₦5.2 trillion GDP contribution specifically to MTN and Airtel performance.
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Nigeria Regulators Clear MTN-IHS $6.2 Billion Deal With Mandatory 30% Local Selldown
Latest: MTN formally begins the selldown process for its 30% IHS Nigeria stake, putting a $1.1bn value on the transaction and confirming local investor targeting.
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South Africa's MVNO Sector Outperforms Rest of Africa, Offering Replicable Policy Model
Latest: GSMA data quantifies Africa's continent-wide MVNO gap, extending earlier Nigeria-specific structural barrier analysis into a pan-African market opportunity framing.
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Domestic Flights Drive African Aviation While Regional Routes Lag
Latest: July capacity data confirms Africa's airlines lead global international growth at 9%, adding a concrete monthly metric to earlier structural aviation analysis.
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Nigeria's Fibre Expansion Reshapes Broadband Market but Last-Mile Gap Persists
Latest: Q2 data confirms Nigeria added 78,000 fibre users, providing a hard quarterly data point behind the FTTX acceleration trend identified in August 26 analysis.
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- 2026-09-02TakeUnverified — not yet reviewed
Starlink Goes Live in Uganda
Uganda's Starlink launch is a connectivity headline. But the more interesting story happened before today.
- 2026-09-02TakeUnverified — not yet reviewed
Airtel's $1.1B Africa Capex Bet
The headline number is impressive. But buried in the CEO's own comments is the thing that could quietly undermine all of it.
- 2026-09-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
MTN Nigeria's Outdoor Broadband Push
MTN Nigeria has launched the FlyX ODU Router, an outdoor fixed-wireless device positioned as an alternative to its FibreX product for customers outside fibre footprint areas. The move extends the…
- 2026-09-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
SA Smartphone Market Contracts, Premiumises
NielsenIQ data shows South Africa's smartphone market is contracting in volume while average selling prices rise, a combination pointing to a consumer spending squeeze that is simultaneously driving…
- 2026-09-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
MTN and Airtel Drive Telecom GDP
MTN and Airtel Nigeria are credited with driving the telecoms sector to 10.38 percent growth, underpinning a ₦5.2 trillion contribution to Nigeria's real GDP in the second quarter of 2026. The…
- 2026-09-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
Cook's Africa Gap at Apple
New analysis frames Tim Cook's departure from Apple as ending a 15-year tenure that produced zero physical Apple Store presence on the African continent, identifying the gap as unfinished business…
- 2026-09-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
Nokia's AI Network Pivot
Nokia has signalled a strategic shift toward AI-driven network management tools as the African telecommunications market enters what the company describes as its next phase of evolution. The…
- 2026-09-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
Telecel Ghana's SME Digital Push
Telecel Ghana has launched its 2026 SME Month initiative, framed as a campaign to support small business growth and digital adoption among Ghanaian entrepreneurs. The programme follows a standard…
- 2026-09-01TakeUnverified — not yet reviewed
Airtel Kenya Eyes Own Network
For years, Airtel Kenya has had to rent the very pipes and pathways it needs to serve its own customers — paying rivals and intermediaries to carry its traffic, domestically and internationally. That…
- 2026-09-01TakeUnverified — not yet reviewed
Starlink Matches Zimbabwe Fibre
Satellite broadband's entire subscriber base in Zimbabwe was 3,814 connections in mid-2024. By early 2026 it was 86,488 — within 17 of matching every fibre line in the country.
- 2026-09-01Unverified — not yet reviewed
Nigeria Telecom GDP Hits Record
Nigeria's telecommunications sector contributed ₦5.2 trillion to real GDP in the second quarter of 2026, its highest contribution in two years. The figure anchors the sector's position as a core…
- 2026-09-01Unverified — not yet reviewed
Nigeria 5G Adoption Lags Spend
5G adoption in Nigeria remains at approximately 4.49 percent despite significant capital expenditure by network operators, providing a concrete data point on the gap between infrastructure investment…
- 2026-09-01Unverified — not yet reviewed
MTN Nigeria Faces Data Depletion Case
A lawyer has formally demanded answers from MTN Nigeria after a reported 708GB of data was depleted from a customer's account, escalating consumer rights pressure on the country's dominant telecoms…
- 2026-09-01Unverified — not yet reviewed
Airtel Nigeria Expands Lagos Centres
Airtel Nigeria has opened two new customer service centres in Lagos as part of a routine retail network expansion. The rollout carries limited strategic signal beyond the company's continued physical…
- 2026-08-30Unverified — not yet reviewed
Starlink Hits 30 African Markets
Starlink has launched services in Equatorial Guinea, reaching its 30th African market and extending low-latency LEO satellite broadband to a small Gulf of Guinea economy that was previously unserved…
- 2026-08-30Unverified — not yet reviewed
Nigeria ISP Rankings Q2 2026
Subscriber ranking data for Nigeria's top ten internet service providers in the second quarter of 2026 reveals the competitive dynamics of Africa's largest internet market, providing actionable…
- 2026-08-30Unverified — not yet reviewed
MTN Nigeria Board Member Departs
Eyitope Kola-Oyeneyin has resigned from the MTN Nigeria board weeks after being appointed to the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, a governance change that highlights the overlap between…
- 2026-08-29TakeUnverified — not yet reviewed
Airtel Africa's $1.1bn Network Bet
500 fibre cuts a week. $1.1 billion to spend. And a CEO pointing out that Airtel and its rivals are literally burying cable in the same ground at the same time.
- 2026-08-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
MTN Uganda-Starlink Enterprise Deal
MTN Uganda has formalised a partnership with Starlink to deliver enterprise connectivity using a hybrid satellite-cellular model. The deal is being described as a replicable template for extending…
- 2026-08-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
Cell C Earnings Surge Post-Restructuring
Cell C has reported a 57 percent jump in earnings alongside a reduction in outstanding debt, signalling a meaningful financial turnaround following its debt restructuring process. The results provide…
- 2026-08-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
Airtel Uganda Profits on Data Growth
Airtel Uganda has reported a 14 percent profit rise to Shs224.7 billion, with the growth driven by rising data demand across the country's mobile network. The results reflect a strong connectivity…
- 2026-08-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
MTN Nigeria CFO's Global Ambition Call
MTN Nigeria's CFO has publicly urged Nigerian businesses to reject dependence on government policy protection and instead target global markets for growth. The statement carries no accompanying…
- 2026-08-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
SA Near-Total Mobile Penetration
New data shows that almost every South African household now has access to a cellphone, though approximately 740,000 homes remain without mobile connectivity. The figures provide a baseline for…
- 2026-08-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
TikTok STEM Reaches Sub-Saharan Africa
Platform-sourced data from TikTok indicates the short-video app is driving STEM content engagement among users across Sub-Saharan Africa. The figures are self-reported by the platform and offer…