Mar 23, 2022
South Africa is on a drive to connect its citizens to the Internet. By Steve Briggs, chief sales and marketing officer at Seacom In November 2021, the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Khumbudzo Phophi announced that the government was considering a...
Mar 17, 2022
MVN-X has successfully reached 1-million subscribers across its portfolio of MVNO clients. The Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) is a subsidiary of Ignition Telecoms, providing turnkey services to MVNOs, and has successfully enabled several well-known South...
Mar 15, 2022
At MWC 2022 held in Barcelona earlier this month, Safaricom, Close the Gap and Huawei received the Global Mobile GLOMO Award in recognition of the Tech4All DigiTruck project’s outstanding contribution to the UN’s sustainable development goals. The...
Mar 4, 2022
At the 2022 Mobile World Congress (MWC), Huawei launched innovative gigabit fibre-to-the room (FTTR) solutions. The solutions extend fiber to every room and aim to build an all-optical base for smart homes and digital enterprises, enabling gigabit Wi-Fi 6 coverage in...
Mar 4, 2022
MTN Group and Rakuten Symphony signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conduct live 4G and 5G OpenRAN proof of concept (PoC) trials in South Africa, Nigeria, and Liberia based on Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). RCP assists telcos worldwide with the...
Mar 4, 2022
The Competition and Consumer Authority of Botswana has unconditionally approved the acquisition of 100% of Broadband Botswana Internet (BBi) by Paratus Telecommunications. Both Paratus and BBi are licensed to provide a range of network and data management solutions...