AIRTEL Africa says it will deploy 277 new sites in Zambia in the next three months to address poor network challenges in the country. The company adds that its total mobile money base in the country has crossed 300,000 mobile money agents. Speaking during a briefing, Thursday, Airtel Africa Chief Executive Officer Sunil Taldar said the company was now tracking performance using one-square-kilometer grids and upgrading areas below set thresholds. “To address complaints about poor network connectivity in the country, we have brought in technology which allows us to divide all our markets into grids of one square kilometer each. We gave certain thresholds and all those grids where our network experience is below the threshold, we put them as...