Sub-Saharan Africa 5G subscriptions set to reach 150m by 2028
The November 2022 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report projects that 5G subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa will grow from 7-million in 2022 to 150-million by the end of 2028, accounting for 14% of total connections at that time. In sub-Saharan Africa, 2G...
Open visa policies improve across Africa
The 2022 Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) report shows African countries making progress in their freedom of travel policies, most of which had been severely curtailed by the Covid-19 crisis. The annual publication, prepared by the African Development Bank Group in...
Cyber, ESG risks are driving more lawsuits
Which are the main factors driving the possibility that a company and its board of directors may be sued by investors or other stakeholder groups in 2023? A poor financial performance or even insolvency amid economic uncertainty and the prospect of a global recession,...
30 years on, SMS popularity is still growing
Despite the rise of new communication channels, Short Message Service (SMS) remains popular, with a 75% increase in use in 2022 compared to 2021. This is among the findings from an Infobip study marking 30 years after a software programmer sent the first message on 3...
Vodacom acquires majority interest in Vodafone Egypt
Vodacom Group has acquired a 55% interest in Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications from Vodafone Europe and Vodafone International Holdings, both indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Vodafone Group. The acquisition was first proposed in January 2022, and all suspensive...
SA among top countries losing money to data breaches
New research has revealed the top 10 countries losing the most money to data breaches - and South Africa features in 10th place with an average data breach cost of $3 210 000. A study by Proxyrack looked into the countries and industries losing the most money to data...
Targeted ransomware doubled in 2022
During the first 10 months of 2022, the proportion of users attacked by targeted ransomware has almost doubled compared to the same period of 2021. Such a striking growth indicates that ransomware gangs have continued mastering their techniques - the infamous ones as...
TB R&D funding passes $1bn but falls short of goals
For the first time in history, funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) hit a billion dollars worldwide in 2021. This marked a significant milestone that nonetheless falls significantly short of what's needed to stay on track to end TB,...
$30bn pledged to bring the world online
Commitments worth $29,92-billion have been pledged since March to bring the world's hardest-to-connect communities online, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for ICT. The total commitments, coming in 578...
SA has room for growth in innovation
In a 2019 Forbes article, Peter Bender-Samuel observed that software may have been eating the world, but services today are now consuming software like prey. By Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings While it's true that services have become key to business operations,...
Building and enabling smart and sustainable cities
More than half of the world's population lives in cities today and according to analysts, more than two thirds of all people will inhabit an urban environment by 2050. Smart cities of the future will have to provide affordable data-driven infrastructure in order to be...
Renasa gets Digimune cybersecurity cover
South African insurance company Renasa has partnered with Digimune to provide its network of independent brokers and their clients with a solution to monitor, mitigate and rectify cybersecurity risks. Servicing hundreds of independent insurance brokers, Renasa will...