Safaricom has joined forces with former Global Teacher Prize winner, Peter Tabichi, to equip Keriko Mixed Secondary School in Nakuru County with computers and internet connectivity. The installation of the ICT infrastructure valued at Kshs [c]
Africa is poised for a data centre boom as internet penetration rates rise and the continent begins to play catch-up with other regions. For the time being, Africa accounts for less than 1% of the [c]
An estimated 112 million more women started using mobile internet last year across low- and middle-income countries, despite the onset of COVID-19, according to the fourth annual GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report published recently. Nevertheless, [c]
The cryptocurrency market is becoming more and more popular nowadays. The volume of transactions is increasing all the time. However, there are still a lot of people who do not know how to exchange their [c]
Kenya has registered a spike in cyber threats, in the three months to December 2020, a period that saw mobile users opt for high speed Internet subscriptions and also transact more on their preferred mobile [c]
Last week, the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) and the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) signed a partnership that paves way for secure and efficient internet connectivity for African countries. The agreement by the two industry [c]
Technology pilot with Loon is set to come to an end on March 1, 2021. The development comes following the announcement that Loon is being wound down as a company, globally. In the blog post [c]
In the era of digital invasion over privacy, data security has never been so vulnerable. Elegant systems have been upgraded and amended to achieve high security and above all, reliability. Over the decades we have [c]
By Jørgen Arnesen The African region is the fastest growing continent in terms of internet penetration. Recent reports from GSMA show that only 300 million out of the total population of 1.1 billion people are connected [c]
By Murray Gardiner The statistics that hover uncertainty around Africa are not ones that should make the continent proud. The World Bank has estimated that Africa could potentially hold 90% of the global poor population by [c]
Telkom has revamped its mobile Voice bundles. The Pawa voice bundles come with added value packs for SMS and mobile internet data. The Voice bundle revamp builds onto Telkom’s strong, consumer-centric ethos, with the telco [c]
ZTE has signed a deal with MTN Zambia to construct a cross-border Optical Transmission Network backbone in Zambia. As part of the contract, ZTE will employ advanced technologies to build the Optical Transmission Network backbone to [c]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published Connecting Humanity – Assessing investment needs of connecting humanity to the Internet by 2030, a comprehensive new study that estimates the investment needed to achieve universal, affordable broadband connectivity [c]
Ericsson and UNICEF have announced a global partnership to help map school connectivity in 35 countries by the end of 2023. Mapping the internet connectivity landscape for schools and their surrounding communities is a critical [c]
The East African Sub-Marine System (EASSy) has restored services in Mogadishu and surrounding areas within Somalia after a network outage experienced the previous weekend. On Sunday, 26 July 2020 at 07:38 UTC, a shunt fault occurred [c]
Nokia has announced the successful completion of a trial with Algerian mobile operator Djezzy, using microwave carrier aggregation technology to support increased demand for capacity. The trial utilized Nokia’s Wavence microwave transport solution with an [c]
Online teaching is now becoming more popular as it is feasible for everyone. It is preferred in every field right from business to education as it helps the people to access the information from anywhere [c]
Konnect, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, recently proposed to offer broadband internet connection to isolation centers to fight against Covid-19 in Sokoto, a north-western state in Nigeria, where it will enable the real-time connection of [c]
Telkom and Loon have announce the availability of mobile internet service via the Loon technology to Kenyans, starting July 2020. This important milestone comes as the project partners approach the completion of the network integration [c]
Among the lavishness of technological trends that are happening right now, it is rather easy to get overwhelmed. But this does not mean that it is a bad thing, not at all. Instead, all of [c]
Safaricom and Google have announced plans to leverage their digital and data capability to enable Kenyans access the wide collection of entertainment, education, sports and news content available on YouTube. The initiative will see Safaricom [c]
The third edition of Data Science Congress (DSC) 2020 virtual, an initiative of Aegis School of Data Science and Cyber Security; with support of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Chamber partner Federation of [c]
MainOne, the Nigeria-based connectivity and data center solution provider, has been picked by Burkina Faso, with funds from the World Bank, to provide bulk connectivity services to a consortium of operators through the PAV-Burkina Cooperative, [c]
On average, prices for mobile-voice, mobile-data and fixed-broadband services are decreasing steadily around the world, and in some countries even dramatically. The reduction in price relative to income is even more dramatic, suggesting that, globally, [c]
China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC are set to partner to build 2Africa, billed as the most comprehensive subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East [c]
Alphabet’s Loon and Vodacom have signed a deal to use Loon’s balloon-powered internet solution to expand the Vodacom network in Mozambique. In terms of the agreement, Loon will help Vodacom provide service to un-served and [c]
New Kaspersky research has found that consumers around the world want to take more action to protect and maintain control over their personal privacy. As revealed in the company’s latest report, Defending digital privacy: taking [c]
South African children have become more active on the internet as the national lockdown progresses. Comparing their activity in the first week of January and the last week of March, the overall number of websites [c]
Vodacom has switched on first live 5G mobile network in three cities in South Africa – that is Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town – with further rollouts planned to other parts of the country. The [c]
Patients in quarantine at the Kenyatta National Hospital’s (KNH) Infectious Diseases Unit at Mbagathi, Nairobi, will now find it easier to keep in touch with their loved ones and the outside world, after Telkom donated [c]
A larger fleet of Loon balloons is heading to Kenya after successful launches from Loon’s launch site in Puerto Rico, this week. These balloons will join the eight balloons that are already active and part [c]
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