Africa’s Digital Landlord | Issue 134

MTN is Africa’s largest telecoms group. It is also becoming its largest digital landlord — the owner of the towers, fibre and payment rails the continent’s banks, businesses and startups now depend on.

This issue opens with the man behind that strategy: Ralph Mupita, and the $2.2bn IHS Towers acquisition, the Bayobab fibre network and the MoMo payments platform turning a phone company into the infrastructure everyone else rents.

Also Inside:

•⁠ ⁠Investigation — Why Africa Pays Some of the World’s Highest Data Prices

•⁠ ⁠Feature: Strive Masiyiwa’s next frontier — Cassava’s bet on AI

•⁠ ⁠Explainer: How to read a telecoms annual report

•⁠ ⁠Last Word — The Continent on a Small Screen