Rise in telco fraud threatens digital trust
Telecommunications fraud is on the rise in South Africa, with the sector seeing one of the highest suspected digital fraud attempt rates globally. In 2023 alone, 15,5% of all suspected digital fraud attempts in South Africa targeted the telecom industry, marking a...
ICANN empowers underserved communities to create Internet domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit organization responsible for coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS), is launching a program to help underserved communities play a bigger role in shaping the internet's future. The...
Fibre network partnership drives jobs, empowerment
Frogfoot RISE, a provider of prepaid, uncapped internet access in underserved communities, has partnered with African Fibre Infrastructure Solutions (AFIS) to simplify the fibre installation process and build local capacity in order to create meaningful employment...
Huawei Operations Transformation Forum Africa 2024: How All Intelligent Operations Will Enable New Growth
Huawei’s Operations and Transformation Forum Africa 2024 opened to an eager audience of industry insiders and a lineup of high-level experts at part of this year’s AfricaCom conference. The forum’s agenda focused on exploring ways for telecommunications industry...
Make business communication more effective in 2025
We’ve seen a number of consumer trends in 2024 shape how businesses connect with their customers. These range from how people shop to how they expect to be served By Warren Hawkins, MD of Euphoria Telecom Adapting to these and ensuring that your business keeps pace...
Cell C uses ng-voice’s Hyperscale IMS on AWS to launch VoLTE
Cell C is launching its VoLTE services using ng-voice’s fully cloud-native IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and ePDG (AAA) and has now successfully completed its first VoLTE call on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The strategic deployment will enable the delivery of Voice...
Unlocking the future of connectivity
Passpoint and Open Roaming can bridge the gap in South Africa’s spectrum battle, writes Paul Colmer, exco member of the Wireless Access Provider’s Association (WAPA). The battle for the 6GHz spectrum band is heating up in South Africa, mirroring global debates on the...
Tantum IT gets connectivity boost with Eutelsat OneWeb
Tantum IT is an IT service provider specialising in remote IT management, cloud services, and secure data handling for various industries, particularly those situated in remote and high-demand environments. Reliable and robust internet connectivity is crucial for...
Security could stunt telco financial services adoption
Africa's thriving telco sector continues to go from strength to strength. From a base size of $63,17-billion in 2024, the sector is expected to reach $82,34-billion by 2029 as the continent's youthful population continues to adopt mobile tech at an astonishing rate....
Vox collaborates with MTN to extend connectivity
Vox is leveraging MTN South Africa’s fixed wireless access network powered by Tarana technology to improve connectivity for businesses that don’t have access to fibre. This technology uses a customised combination of algorithm and antenna to provide a high-speed...
MNOs and MVNOs both key to mobile innovation
The rise of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in South Africa might be seen by some as major competition to legacy networks. But, as Calvin Collett, founder and CEO of Melon Mobile points out, MNOs and MVNOs need each other to build innovative, cost-effective...
How AI is transforming telecoms
As businesses increasingly adopt edge computing for real-time processing and decision-making, the ability to run AI at the edge is becoming imperative. With decades of experience in AI development and deployment, Dell Technologies is ideally positioned to reshape how...