Lower taxes could increase connectivity

The digital divide is still a reality in sub-Saharan Africa – and high sector-specific taxes are contributing to lower mobile connectivity. The GSMA yesterday announced findings from its latest report, ‘”Taxing Mobile Connectivity in Sub-Saharan...

Fujitsu servers harness new Xeon Scalable

Fujitsu was quick off the blocks with a new, fully refreshed range of dual- and quad-socket Primergy servers and octo-socket Primequest business critical server systems designed for Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The new servers combine performance, flexible...

Xeon Scalable heralds ‘biggest advancement’ for Intel

Calling it the biggest data centre and network processor advancement in a decade, Intel has unveiled its new Intel Xeon Scalable processors, providing businesses with the performance to handle compute-hungry tasks including real-time analytics, virtualised...

The high cost of road crashes

Based on a ratio of serious injuries to fatalities and slight injuries to fatalities, as well as consideration for under-reporting, it is estimated 13 591 people died on South Africa’s roads in 2015. In addition, 62 520 people were seriously injured and a further 202...

Huawei partners to ease WorldRemit service

Digital money transfer service WorldRemit and Huawei have partnered to make WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all partners of Huawei’s mobile money service platform across Africa. The partnership, announced at the GSMA’s Mobile 360...

GSMA extends sustainable initiatives in Africa

The GSMA has announced several developments in its Mobile for Development programme, supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). he Connected Woman initiative announced new commitments by five mobile network operators (MNOs) to reduce the...