Eutelsat Communications and Intersat, a major provider of internet solutions in Africa, have signed a multi-year deal representing several hundred Mbps to address the connectivity needs of enterprises, institutions and individuals in Gambia, Guinea Bissau [c]
The Kenya government is stepping up its drive to ensure more Kenyans are connected to the internet as part of a broader policy to deliver better public services. In order to do so, the ICT [c]
The Ministries of ICT and Education, ICT Authority, Huawei and UNESCO have launched the DigiSchool Connectivity Project as part of a new nationwide Schoolnet project that seeks to connect all schools in Kenya to the [c]
By Gopher Ogembo As adults, we look into our childhood years and reminisce the memories that made us into who we are today. We cherish our family and friends who defined our yesteryears and appreciate [c]
Airtel Africa, a provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, has announced that its B2B division, Airtel Business, has formed a new partnership with Cisco to provide [c]
UNICEF and African e-commerce platform Jumia have announced a partnership in support of Giga’s work to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. Jumia’s data science capacity [c]
Machine learning has a very long history before deep learning reached its peak. The rise of the internet and the greater availability of useful data helped machine learning evolve to a new level in the [c]
Airtel Africa and UNICEF have announced a five-year pan-African partnership to help accelerate the roll-out of digital learning through connecting schools to the internet and ensuring free access to learning platforms across 13 countries. By [c]
Coming off the back of reaching a 100,000 km fibre network milestone in Africa, Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) in the Democratic Republic of Congo is investing extensively in the country by bringing innovative, super-fast and [c]
The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has welcomed its 49th member state after the Republic of South Sudan was formally admitted into the Union through an announcement made in Nairobi, Kenya at the ATU Headquarters. South [c]
Kaspersky analysed anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Privacy Checker, a website that contains helpful advice on privacy settings for various Internet services and platforms. The results reflect which services and platforms’ Internet users have the most privacy [c]
After its internet boost, sports betting and online gambling in Africa have become a highly sought-after activity amongst many. However, not all countries consider gambling a legal activity. All the 54 countries in Africa today [c]
Nokia has come together with multiple stakeholders – including Safaricom, UNICEF and Kenya’s Ministries of Education and ICT – to connect close to 90 schools to the internet in Kenya. Both rural and disadvantaged urban [c]
A suspected prolific child sexual abuser has been arrested by Guatemalan law enforcement in a police operation supported by INTERPOL. In an investigation that began in February 2017, specialized law enforcement officers from around the [c]
Equity’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), Equitel, has launched its fourth generation (4G) services. The new 4G high-speed broadband network offers faster speeds to browse, stream, download and upload for customers in line with current market demands. [c]
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]
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