Orange Senegal (Sonatel) carried out the country's first 5G test on 24 November in partnership with Chinese hardware vendor Huawei, reports Agence Ecofin. Company officials ...
Senegal experienced a significant jump in internet adoption during the third quarter, driven by growing take-up of handset-based mobile subscriptions. According to the latest ...
Spacecom has announced a multi-year contract with La Poste, the Senegalese Post Authority, Spacecom will migrate La Poste from its current satellite provider to the Amos-17 ...
Sirius Telecom Afrique, a telecom engineering, IT, and digital services company, has signed a hosting contract as a MVNO with Sonatel of Senegal, reports Ecofin. Sirius ...
Senegal's telecom regulator ARTP has held a press conference to address consumer complaints over the change in Orange's pricing in July. After first ordering Orange to ...
Senegal ended the first quarter of 2020 with 17.95 million mobile lines, an increase of just 0.38 percent from three months earlier. Growth slowed compared to previous ...
Helios Towers has signed an agreement with mobile operator Free Senegal to acquire its passive infrastructure assets for an upfront cash consideration of EUR 160 million. ...
Senegal's regulator ARTP said that it has demanded the suspension of the recent changes introduced by Sonatel within the Illimix mobile range, marketed under the Orange ...
Saga Africa Holding, which operates in Senegal under the Free brand, has been issued with a sanction in relations with its dispute with MVNO Sirius Telecoms, reports ...
The Senegalese government has made 108,421 free connection lines available to students, Ecofin reported citing the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It ...
Telecom operators in Senegal generated annual revenues of XOF 763 billion in 2019 across the fixed and mobile segments, representing a year-on-year increase of 4.6 percent, ...
Senegal telecom authority ARTP has approved a further reduction in the charges that market players have to pay to access USSD codes, following the cuts introduced last year. ...
Senegal's regulator ARTP issued formal warnings to the country's three main telecom operators over their failure to meet quality of service (QoS) standards. The conclusion ...
Sonatel said that it would issue XOF 100 billion of bonds by mid-July in the largest ever debt issue by a private company on the regional market, Reuters reported. The bond ...
Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) has announced the start of the Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) Cable. This will be the first high-capacity direct link from the ...
Senegalese mobile operator Free has deployed Mobiquity Money to enhance its service 'Free Money' and enable digital payments for its customers. Comviva will bring global ...
. In the meantime, the operator plans to work on improving the quality of 3G services. It has also been offering its subscribers one hour of free internet access every day ...
The government of Senegal has announced plans to attract Vietnamese investors to its telecom sector, reports Ecofin. A partnership has been discussed in Dakar between Nguyen ...
Senegal's telecom authority ARTP has published a decision setting the conditions under which IoT market players will be able to operate Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) ...
The company's executive team inaugurated the new network at a press event earlier this week. As reported by Le Quotidien, LTE services will go live on 31 March and soon ...
In early October, Senegal's second largest mobile operator introduced new offers under the Free brand, which replaced Tigo. In the three months to December, Free saw its ...
Sonatel reported full-year EBITDA of XOF 482 billion, up 4.2 percent year-on-year (+4.7% on a like-for-like basis). The group said that it benefited from higher revenues and ...
Sirius Telecoms announced that its MVNO business will soon introduce commercial offers in Senegal under the Promobile brand, reports Agence Ecofin. Alongside mobile voice and ...
Senegal's mobile connections rose to 17.4 million at end-September, representing year-on-year growth of 6.1 percent, according to telecom regulator ARTP. Quarter-on-quarter, ...
WorldRemit has joined forces with Wizall Money to launch a mobile money transfer service to Senegal. WorldRemit customers in over 50 countries, including France, Spain and ...