Philippines-based Globe Telecom has closed the sale of 96 more towers raising a total of PHP89.3 billion ($1.5 billion) since kicking off its sale-and-leaseback initiative three years ago.
South African telco Vodacom said on Thursday it will invest around ZAR100 million (US$5.5 million) to build 106 new base station sites in deep rural areas of KwaZulu Natal, which will bring connectivity to hundreds of thousands of people in those areas.
Papua New Guinea’s state-owned telecoms network wholesaler PNG DataCo says that internet services in the southeastern towns of Popondetta and Alotau have been disrupted due to a subsea cable break caused by an earthquake on Tuesday.
The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) has unveiled a new initiative aimed at establishing a unified set of standards for wholesale services between internet service providers and alternative network providers (altnets). This move come…