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Glad Dibetso Appointed As New Group CEO of inq.

June 7, 2023

inq. Group today announced the appointment of seasoned industry leader Glad Dibetso to succeed Nick Reed. Dibetso will become CEO Designate from 1 July…

Liquid C2 Launches 3rd Cyber Security Fusion Centre In Zambia

March 30, 2023

Liquid C2, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has today opened the doors of its Zambian Cyber Security Fusion Centre (CSFC)…

Nokia To Build Next-generation Optical Transport Network In Several African Countries

February 5, 2023

Nokia will build a next-generation optical transport network connecting Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa on behalf…

11 Huawei Sub-saharan Africa Offices Awarded As Top Employers

January 25, 2023

The Top Employers Institute, a global authority on excellence in people practices has conferred more Huawei offices with top employers’ award. 11 Huawei Sub-Saharan…

Zamtel Launches WhatsApp Airtime Purchase Chatbot

August 11, 2022

Zamtel, in partnership with Gupshup, the global leader in conversational engagement, wishes to announce the launch of an intelligent chatbot that will allow customers…

Airtel Business Enhances Fibre Connectivity With Introduction Of New Technology

July 26, 2022

Zambia’s largest 4G network provider, Airtel Zambia has announced that its B2B vertical , Airtel Business has introduced a new enhanced Fibre connectivity solution…

MTN Zambia has a new CEO, Lambertus Hofker

October 7, 2019

MTN Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Lambertus (Bart) Hofker as MTN Zambia Chief Executive Officer effective 1st October 2019 taking over…

Eutelsat selects ground infrastructure providers for its KONNECT satellite programme

May 7, 2019

Eutelsat has chosen high-performance ground infrastructure providers to operate its future KONNECT satellite and associated broadband services: General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies has been selected to…

ZamPay goes number neutral

April 18, 2019

Zamtel has announced that ZamPay, the country’ first Quick Response (QR) code payment platform has now become number neutral. The Number Neutrality Feature allows…

AngoNAP Fortaleza data centre to benefit content and data sharing between Latin America and Africa

April 17, 2019

Telecom multinational, Angola Cables announced the opening of its carrier neutral data centre, AngoNAP Fortaleza in Fortaleza, Brazil earlier today. The Tier III…

Liquid Telecom selected as regional partner for MIT’s 2019 Inclusive Innovation Challenge to address digital economy disparities across Africa

April 16, 2019

Liquid Telecom, the leading pan-African telecoms group, is proud to be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) official partner for the 2019 Inclusive Innovation…

Zamtel launches Win-It promotion!

March 25, 2019

Zamtel has launched a new and exciting promotion dubbed Win-It that will see its prepaid mobile customers win bicycles. The Win-It promotion is also…

Liquid Telecom expands availability of Microsoft Azure in Africa

March 14, 2019

Liquid Telecom, the leading pan-African telecoms group and Microsoft Gold Partner, has announced the availability of Microsoft Azure across its pan-African network, approaching 70,000km and…

Uzi Zambia given up to end of 2019 to set up network

March 14, 2019

The new mobile operator, Uzi Zambia, has been working on set up in the country but now their launch date has been extended even…

Liquid Telecom secures first customer, MTN, for 4G roaming in South Africa

March 1, 2019

Liquid Telecom South Africa, part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has secured its first customer MTN, to offer 4G roaming to…

Choppies Supermarkets joins ZamPay digital revolution

February 21, 2019

Zamtel has announced the signing of a partnership with fast growing chain store Choppies for the use of ZamPay, a new mobile payment platform….

Zimbabwe’s internet shut down on Government orders

January 16, 2019

An internet shutdown happens when someone — usually a government — intentionally disrupts the internet or mobile apps to control what people say or…

Zamtel launches ‘Elo Chadiba’ social bundles, offers free Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram on mobile

December 20, 2018

Zamtel has launched new data packs that will see its mobile subscribers enjoy cheap data, calls and SMS services. The new offer dubbed Elo Chadiba will…

Here’s how virtualization paves the way for 5G

December 18, 2018

It is not without reason that the African service providers have started exploring 5G technology. South African operator Rain recently announced that they would be…

Charles Molapisi leaves MTN Zambia as CEO to become Group’s CTIO

December 17, 2018

Former MTN Group Chief Technology and Information Officer Babak Fouladi who resigned has been replaced by Charles Molapisi effective 1 January 2019. Fouladi is…