Connectivity, cloud, fintech infrastructure and the builders wiring the continent.
IHS Towers investors cleared MTN's bid to take full ownership of nearly 29,000 African mobile towers, reversing the tower-leasing model the industry has followed for over a decade.
A Federal High Court ruling upheld Nigeria's digital lending rules but stripped the consumer regulator of any power to license telecoms firms, ending a three-month freeze on the airtime-credit services 40 million Nigerians use.
Hackers defaced president.go.ke on July 18, demanding 5 BTC and threatening to leak information about President Ruto. Officials say no sensitive data was taken. It is the second such breach since November.
Two decades after RICA first made SIM registration compulsory, South Africa's telecom industry and Justice Ministry are overhauling the system to verify registrants against the Home Affairs database in real time, after fraud investigators linked improperly registered SIMs to extortion, cash-in-transit heists and money laundering.
The AT50 Index, a benchmark for Africa's most listing-ready private tech companies, activated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange this week, reopening a question the continent's founders have mostly answered by leaving: New York or London, or home?
A new industry analysis shows African mobile operators sinking $77 billion into networks by 2030 while satellite entrants like Starlink pay a fraction of local licence costs to compete for the same customers -- exposing an ownership gap in the continent's fastest-growing infrastructure story.
The CBN has ordered every bank, fintech, and payment operator in Nigeria to stop storing transaction data on foreign servers by 1 January 2027 -- a deadline that could force one of the country's biggest technology migrations.
A live stablecoin settlement pilot in the DRC, launched July 6 by Visa, M-Pesa and Onafriq, aims to cut the roughly 8% average cost of cross-border African remittances by replacing correspondent-bank routing with dollar-pegged digital settlement.
