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We needed to put the right structure in place to deliver on our ambition of becoming a leading pan-African technology company. This includes the decoupling of Vodacom South Africa as a standalone business.”
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We are happy to provide nearly every country in sub-Saharan Africa with its own Information Centre so people across the continent have a central place to find authoritative information around COVID-19.”
- Shameel Joosub CEO Vodacom Group
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MTN GlobalConnect is delighted to participate in this bold 2Africa subsea cable project. This initiative complements MTN GlobalConnect’s terrestrial fibre strategy to connect African countries to each other and to the rest of the world.”
- Frédéric Schepens CEO MTN GlobalConnect
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We are pleased with the development of our strategic partnership with Telecom Egypt. Agreements like the ones we have signed today will be reflected in the products and services that we will offer our customers for the first time in the Egyptian market.”
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These [March-end financial] results demonstrate the strength and resilience of our business and the effectiveness of our strategy – with all three business services, voice, data and mobile money, contributing to revenue growth.”
- Kojo Boakye Director of Public Policy, Africa Facebook
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The N100 billion issued is the largest commercial paper issuance by a Nigerian corporate. It allows us to broaden our sources for funding and combines our established lines of credit with access to capital market funding, which will lower our overall cost of borrowing.”
- Hazem Metwally
- Ferdinand Moolman
- Raghu Mandava
CEO Etisalat Misr
CEO MTN Nigeria
CEO Airtel Africa
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