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  • Biden Administration Announces Massive $42.5b Investment in Broadband

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    June 27, 2023

    June 27, 2023 By Kenneth Mwangi

    President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced Monday how nearly $42.5 billion in Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment funds will be divided among states and territories, marking the federal government’s single-biggest investment in high-speed internet access. Speaking at the White House on Monday, Biden said the goal of connecting all Americans to high-speed […]

    Filed Under: ICT

  • ICT
  • South Korea Targets 2028 For 6G Launch

    by Kevin Davids
    March 2, 2022

    March 2, 2022 By Kevin Davids

    The country’s science minister has predicted that South Korea will seek to commercialize sixth-generation (6G) services by 2028. On Tuesday, Science and ICT Minister Lim Hye-sook stated during her address at the Mobile World Congress 2022, a mobile technology trade show currently being held in Barcelona: “We will create a society where all individuals can […]

    Filed Under: ICT

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  • Latin America News
  • GoldConnect Unveils its New Breakthrough Pricing & Engagement Platform Specific to the LATAM Region

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    April 27, 2021

    April 27, 2021 By Kenneth Mwangi

    GoldConnect, a leading wholesale telecommunications provider in Latin America and the Caribbean, announces the release of its state-of-the-art pricing & engagement platform, LatamConnect. The new interactive platform will provide customers with external plant feasibility analysis, in more than 17 countries in the GoldConnect network plus an additional 87+ partners in Latin America. LatamConnect provides accurate […]

    Filed Under: ICT, Latin America News

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  • Latin America News
  • Peppertree Capital and Goldman Sachs Accused of “Ruthless” Tactics in Latin America

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    April 21, 2021

    April 21, 2021 By Kenneth Mwangi

    Private equity firms don’t often make the news for good reasons, and today is no exception. Apparently, Peppertree Capital Management, one of the largest private equity firms in Ohio, has teamed up with investment banking titan Goldman Sachs to allegedly try and attempt to screw over its local partners in a telecommunications towers venture working […]

    Filed Under: ICT, Latin America News

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  • Telecommunications
  • Mastercard to invest $100 mln in Airtel Africa’s mobile money unit

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    April 21, 2021

    April 21, 2021 By Kenneth Mwangi

    Global payment processor Mastercard Inc (MA.N) will invest $100 million in Airtel Africa’s (AAF.L) mobile money operations, valuing the business at $2.65 billion, the London-listed company said on Thursday. Airtel Africa is targeting a public listing of Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) within the next four years. Earlier this month, private equity firm TPG’s […]

    Filed Under: Africa, ICT, Telecommunications

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  • Telecommunications
  • Bulgaria’s Neterra Telecommunications breaks ground on second data center in Sofia

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    April 21, 2021

    April 21, 2021 By Kenneth Mwangi

    Bulgarian telecommunications company Neterra has broken ground on its second data center in the capital of Sofia. The four-story, 1,400 square meter (15,000 sq ft) facility, known as Sofia Data Center 2 (SDC-2), is located opposite Neterra’s SDC-1 facility and is being built to Tier III Uptime standards. Construction is due for completion later in […]

    Filed Under: Europe, ICT, Telecommunications

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  • Latin America News
  • IHS Towers Announces Further Latin America Expansion Through Centennial Towers Acquisition

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    April 17, 2021

    April 17, 2021 By Kenneth Mwangi

    IHS Holding Limited (“IHS Towers”), one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world by tower count, has acquired Centennial Towers’ Brazilian and Colombian tower operations. This acquisition brings an additional 602 towers in Brazil, and 217 towers in Colombia, strengthening IHS Towers’ position and core expertise in […]

    Filed Under: ICT, Latin America News

  • ICT|
  • Latin America News
  • Peru planning 5G spectrum tender for 1H21

    by Kenneth Mwangi
    November 21, 2020

    November 21, 2020 By Kenneth Mwangi

    Peru plans to launch a tender for spectrum frequencies for 5G technology during the first half of next year, according to deputy communications minister Virginia Nakagawa (pictured). Speaking at a virtual event on Peru’s agenda for the development of 5G technologies promoted by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Nakagawa said that before the […]

    Filed Under: ICT, Latin America News

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  • Project Updates
  • Alphabet’s Project Loon Takes Off In Kenya

    by Kevin Davids
    March 25, 2020

    March 25, 2020 By Kevin Davids

    Alphabet’s internet-delivery balloon service, Loon, has finally received approval from the Kenyan government. To help improve communication during the coronavirus pandemic, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta fast-tracked the regulatory approval Loon and its partner, Telkom Kenya, were waiting on. Loon expects to begin providing service to remote areas of Kenya in the “near future.” Once up […]

    Filed Under: ICT, Kenya News, Project Updates

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  • ICT
  • ATU Issues Guidelines For Africa’s Telecom Industry To Combat Coronavirus

    by Kevin Davids
    March 24, 2020

    March 24, 2020 By Kevin Davids

    The African Telecommunications Union (ATU), a specialized agency of the African Union in the field of telecommunications, has put together a set of guidelines to assist in combating the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that every Member State should consider. Africa has so far recorded relatively few coronavirus cases compared to the rest of the world. […]

    Filed Under: Africa, ICT

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