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Airtel Africa Plc Buys 80,000 Shares as $100 Million Buyback Nears March 31 Deadline
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Airtel Africa Plc Buys 80,000 Shares as $100 Million Buyback Nears March 31 Deadline

Airtel Africa on Monday disclosed it snapped up 80,000 of its own shares, paying an average price of 345.59 pence apiece. The latest purchase adds to the telecom operator’s $100 million buyback program, which the company still expects to wrap up by March 31. The timing of the filing is notable, coming as the London-listed telecom group pushes ahead with plans to float Airtel Money—its mobile payments arm—in the first half of 2026. Back in January, Airtel reiterated its target, saying the unit that enables money transfers via mobile phones remained on course for that window.
March 10, 2026
5G Surges, Satellite Internet Soars & Telecom Shake-Ups – Global Connectivity News (Oct 7–8, 2025)
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5G Surges, Satellite Internet Soars & Telecom Shake-Ups – Global Connectivity News (Oct 7–8, 2025)

India’s 5G Milestone: India announced that 5G now reaches “nearly every district” across the nation, a stunning leap for a country that “once struggled with 2G” pmindia.gov.in. Speaking at the India Mobile Congress on Oct 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated how electronics manufacturing has grown 28-fold since 2014 and mobile phone exports are up 127×, thanks to India’s pro-industry policies. He highlighted the recent launch of a Made-in-India 4G/5G stack – making India one of only five countries with homegrown telecom stack capability pmindia.gov.in. Over 100,000 4G towers were activated in a single day to connect 20 million more people in remote areas pmindia.gov.in. These indigenous technologies, Modi said, will ensure seamless connectivity and spur India’s “6G Vision 2030”
October 8, 2025
48 Hours of Mobile Mayhem: 5G Breakthroughs, Early 6G Leaps & Telecom Turmoil (Sept 11–12, 2025)
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48 Hours of Mobile Mayhem: 5G Breakthroughs, Early 6G Leaps & Telecom Turmoil (Sept 11–12, 2025)

Satellite spectrum shake-up in the U.S.: In a blockbuster spectrum deal, EchoStar – the satellite operator linked to Dish Network – agreed to sell vast swaths of its mobile airwaves to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for about $17 billion reuters.com. The purchase gives SpaceX’s Starlink satellite unit control of valuable 2 GHz and 1.9 GHz licenses, jump-starting its plans to offer direct-to-cellular satellite broadband. The deal even has SpaceX taking on $2 billion of EchoStar’s debt interest bez-kabli.pl. In tandem, EchoStar reached a separate $23 billion spectrum sale to AT&T reuters.com – collectively, these moves signaled a major retreat by EchoStar from building its own 5G network in favor of cashing out. U.S. regulators reacted positively: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called
September 12, 2025