Charting the course from telco to techco in Africa
07 November 2025
Ante Mihovilovic, Vice President and Head of Networks at Ericsson Europe, Middle East and Africa
Africa’s telecom industry is at a major inflection point. Connectivity alone is no longer enough – companies and ecosystems now expect intelligent, agile and technology-driven networks.
The shift from traditional telecom operators who provide just connectivity to full-fledged technology companies who deliver a broad suite of digital services is not just a vision; it’s already happening, and it’s being powered by AI, automation, cloud and data-driven operations. The operators who adapt the fastest will lead the next decade of digital growth on the continent.
Read the full article Resilience by design: rethinking remote tower management
06 November 2025
Tamir Piatecka, CEO Africa, Galooli
As Africa, tens of thousands of telecom towers are operating in environments where reliability cannot be taken for granted. Grid instability, fuel costs, theft, and limited site accessibility are daily realities that test the resilience of even the best-managed networks.
The continent’s digital growth is undeniable. Mobile penetration, data consumption, and network expansion continue to rise at record pace. But for every new connection added, operators face the challenge of keeping existing towers online in conditions where power and maintenance resources are often stretched thin. Today, remote tower management is less about scaling fast and more about sustaining what we already have, with consistency, efficiency, and intelligence.
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Telecom Cybersecurity in SubSaharan Africa: Securing the Backbone of the Digital Economy
05 November 2025
Rajiv Aggarwal, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia
A few months ago, a sophisticated cyberattack quietly rocked the telecom industry in East Asia. The breach infiltrated the core network of a major operator, compromising one of the most sensitive systems in telecom infrastructure: the Home Subscriber Server (HSS). Often called the digital brain of mobile networks, the HSS stores critical user data from Universal Subscriber Identity Modules (USIMs). Once breached, attackers potentially gained access to IMSI numbers, authentication keys, SMS metadata, and contacts.
Read the full article GCF certification as a key enabler for mission critical broadband services
05 November 2025
Harald Ludwig, Technical Forum Chair, TCCA;
and Asif Hamidullah, Head of Certification IoT & Verticals, GCF
Public Safety Agencies and Mission Critical Communication Operators (MCCOs) around the world are currently in various phases of migrating their existing Public Land Mobile Radio networks from voice-oriented narrowband technologies, such as TETRA and P25, to mobile broadband technologies, based on 3GPP’s 4G-LTE and 5G-NR standards. Mission Critical Services (MCS) is a key component of these standards with services such as Push-To-Talk (MCPTT), Video (MCVideo), and Data (MCData) – together also referred as MCX – being defined and planned to be globally adopted.
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