Ahead of the TowerXchange Meetup Africa — taking place on the 8- 9 October in Johannesburg — Matthew Edwards, head of research at EMEA collected and collated the most up-to-date insights on the markets he tracks

Downtime is not as big an issue as it once was for African tower owners. But according to Matthew Edwards and Kieron Osmotherly of TowerXchange, a thought leadership community in the emerging market towers sector, power supply challenges remain

Subsea specialist Mainone confirmed the scheduled landing of MainOne submarine cable systems in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire in September and October 2019, respectively

Chipper Cash, an African no-fee, cross-border startup, has expanded to Nigeria

Mauritius Telecom has partnered with PCCW Global, part of Hong Kong telecom provider HKT, to introduced the island’s first mobile payment solution