Tycoon Ambani Sets Sights on Africa With Telecom Venture

  • Unit of Reliance helps build Ghana-based mobile provider
  • Will provide support to launch 5G broadband services
Mukesh AmbaniPhotographer: Sujit Jaiswal/AFP/Getty Images
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Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani is set to enter Africa with a telecom venture, seeking to win mobile broadband customers in a high-growth market.

Radisys Corp., a unit of Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries Ltd., will provide key network infrastructure, applications and smartphones for Ghana-based Next-Gen InfraCo., according to its Executive Director Harkirit Singh. He described the plans ahead of NGIC’s launch announcement on Monday in Mumbai, India’s financial hub.