Intelsat opens office in Nairobi

Intelsat has opened a new sales office in Nairobi, Kenya, to enhance its responsiveness to communications services and media customers in the East Africa region. The new office will be managed by industry veteran, Lawrence Mungai. Mungai brings a wealth of industry...

Konnect Africa aims to reshape satellite broadband space

With new-generation services starting today in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda, Konnect Africa confirming its bold ambitions for sub-Saharan Africa. The company’s service offerings and products, including...

PayU moves into Nigerian market

PayU has rolled out strategies to intensify efforts to connect businesses to Nigeria’s online payment market. Annual online payments in Nigeria is estimated to surpass N200-billion this year from N167-billion in 2016. Country manager of PayU Nigeria, Ms Juliet...

Internet infrastructure security guidelines for Africa

The Internet Society and the African Union Commission unveiled a new set of Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for Africa during the African Internet Summit this week. The guidelines will help Africa create a more secure Internet infrastructure and are set to...

Harvard invests in African cross-disciplinary research

The official opening of Harvard University’s Centre for African Studies Africa office in Johannesburg will allow the university to deepen its collaborations, and more effectively partner with African academic, government and business institutions. In addition,...

Hughes Jupiter brings broadband to Africa

Hughes Network Systems has announced that its Jupiter System has been selected by Global-IP Cayman as the technology platform to enable its mission of bringing high-performance connectivity to mobile devices used throughout the sub-Saharan Africa region. The Jupiter...