Smartphones, panel TVs boost SA consumer tech

Revenues in South Africa’s technical consumer goods market climbed 8% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2018, boosted by a 16% rise in the telecommunications sector and a 17,4% increase in small domestic appliances, according to point of sale data from...

Looks like LuckyMouse is back

The Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered several infections from a previously unknown Trojan, which is most likely related to the infamous Chinese-speaking threat actor LuckyMouse. The most peculiar trait of this malware is its...

Liquid Telecoms reaches from Cape to Cairo

Kathy Gibson is at ITU Telecom World in Durban – Liquid Telecom has gone live with a “Cape to Cairo” network that links 13 countries and 660 towns along the length of the continent. Currently, pan-African trade accounts for just 18% of the continent’s business; and a...

Africa and the road to inclusive connectivity

Kathy Gibson is at ITU Telecom World in Durban – In just 20 years, African telecommunications has gone from almost non-existent to a level where just about everyone has a phone today. “The situation in Africa was terrible, but there has been a marvellous...

Ramaphosa promises a new dawn for telecommunications

Kathy Gibson is at ITU Telecom World in Durban – A strong call for co-operation and policy certainty is already emerging at the ITU Telecom World taking place in Durban this week. Houlin Zhao, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, calls...
Can Africa leapfrog to 5G?

Can Africa leapfrog to 5G?

Kathy Gibson is at ITU Telecom World in Durban – 5G is vital to building new societies and achieving the fourth industrial revolution – and developing countries could benefit the most by leapfrogging straight to 5G. This is the word from, Mario Maniewicz,...