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TVAfrica was a pan-African television network founded in 1998 by former advertising executive Dave Kelly alongside sports broadcaster Berry Lambert. [4] The network relayed up to 80% of its content to private television stations in sub-Saharan Africa and also licensed the broadcast of sporting events (excluding South Africa due to licensing regulations) [5] to interested broadcasters.
MTN Group Limited (formerly M-Cell) [2] is a South African multinational corporation and mobile telecommunications provider. Its head office is in Johannesburg . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] MTN is among the largest mobile network operators in the world , and the largest in Africa .
Airtel Africa plc is a British company that provides telecommunications and mobile money services in 14 countries in Africa, primarily in East, Central and West Africa. Airtel Africa is majority owned by the Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel .
It made history on August 5, 2001, by becoming the first telecommunications service provider to launch commercial GSM services in Nigeria. In 2004, Vodacom took charge of the company as management changed hands. Later in 2004, Vee Networks took the reins of the company and became known as Vmobile. In May 2006, Vmobile was acquired by Celtel. In ...
Africell was founded in 2001. It has US ownership [1] and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.The company has approximately 10,000 direct and outsourced employees and currently operates in four countries – The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola.
GLO-1 is the first successful submarine cable from the United Kingdom to Nigeria, and GLO is the first individual African company to embark on such a project. [11] [12]GLO-1 has the potential to provide high speed internet services, faster, more reliable and cheaper telecom services. [13]
Africa Online Holding Ltd., sometimes abbreviated to AFOL, is the largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Africa. [1] Based in Nairobi , Kenya , it offers Internet access and operates in ten African countries, including Côte d'Ivoire , Ghana , Namibia , Eswatini , Tanzania , Uganda and Zimbabwe .
In August 2018, Equity Group spun off its fintech arm into Finserve Africa Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary with its own board and management, headed by Jack Ngare. As of December 2018, data from the Communications Authority of Kenya showed that Equitel was the second-biggest mobile-money transfer service in Kenya with over 2.075 million ...