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Telkom currently operates and maintains five of the six submarine cables that have landed in Kenya.

With a new logo and fresh ambitions, Africa’s largest mobile telecoms service provider is pivoting towards fintech and enterprise services as traditional voice and data markets lose their lustre.

It seems the long-running saga of South Africa’s auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile broadband may finally have ended on a positive note, raising R14.4 billion (about $960.7 million) for the country’s treasury. The is way above the R8 billion ($533.7 million) a lot of analysts, and indeed the government, had been expecting.

Operators had been waiting for more than 15 years for spectrum licences, needed to lower data costs and roll out 5G, as the process was slowed by legislative delays.

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South African regulator ICASA has stated that the main stage of its ongoing mobile broadband spectrum auction has already exceeded its initial estimate of ZAR8 billion (US$531 million).

A series of reforms within Uganda’s telecom sector have provided the country with one of the most competitive markets in the region.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) has had a tortuous history since gaining independence. The country’s stability has been affected by disputes among rival groups and armed militias, particularly in the far eastern provinces and Katanga. This has resulted in considerable social upheaval, exacerbated by considerable corruption within the government.

South African operator Telkom has experienced mixed fortunes over the past 24 hours. It has been one of the two early winners (along with fixed wireless access operator Rain Networks) in South Africas mobile spectrum auction but, within the same day, has been forced to delay a planned sale of its tower unit.