A combination of poor financial inclusion and growing mobile phone penetration (including smartphones) has made Africa a promising environment for the growth of mobile money and, more broadly, innovation in digital payments services. Partly due to th...

Kenya's communications authority has released its quarterly statistics for the period to the end of December. Although the average minute of use per subscriber also increased above our estimate to c92 minutes/month, we expect the impact on Safaricom’...

Safaricom recently rolled out its 5G network in Kenya, after trials and regulatory approvals, making it the first operator to launch commercially in Kenya and only the third in Sub-Saharan Africa – MTN and Vodacom have launched in South Africa. Since...

Exploring the popular NYSE-listed Cloud communication company's challenges and prospects. This triggers a question: as a representative of the Chinese Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sector, is RAAS a potentially worthwhile investment? According to the ...

AMC has operations in 14 African countries and will use the US$200mn investment to reduce debt and invest in network and sales infrastructure. We think such a move would further serve to highlight the discounted valuation of the telecoms arm of the b...

The regulatory authorities have intervened in a long-running dispute between Nigerian banks and mobile network operators over billing arrangements for unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) services provided by the latter for financial transa...