Finance house buys stake in Liquid Telecom
21 May 2019
Pan-African firm Liquid Telecom has completed a deal with CDC Group, which will see the development finance house become an eight per cent shareholder in the operator for a USD180m investment.
CDC, formerly known as the Commonwealth Development Corporation, is owned by the British government and it is focused on investments in Asia and Africa.
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Angola loses 800,000 mobile users in four years
16 May 2019
Angola’s two mobile telecommunications operators lost approximately 800,000 users from 2014-2018, the chief executive of the Angolan Communications Institute (INACOM) announced.
António Moniz Gonçalves said that the number of users fell from 14 million in 2014 to 13 million in 2016.
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Zambia sees spike in mobile internet usage
16 May 2019
According to statistics, the number of users has risen to almost 10 million
Zambia’s regulator has reported a sharp rise in the number of mobile internet users.
According to the latest statistics made public by Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA), the number has increased by approximately two million to reach close to 10 million people from 7,910,995 in just over three months.
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