Leading Innovation in Africa, MTN Completed Key Autonomous Networks Trials with Huawei
Recently, MTN Group completed two trials including the Intelligent IP Private Line Solution and the Sleeping Cells Self-healing Solution on South Africa live networks for the first time in December 2021, which are also the first time in the African continent. This...
MTN’s Ricardo Varzielas: Accelerate Innovation for Long-Term Sustainable Growth
MTN group is currently the leading telecom operator in Africa and has around 600 million people under its network coverage. It has 277 million clients, around 117 million of which are active data users and approximately 49 million are mobile money users. Africa has a...
Fibre trends SA can expect to see in 2022
If there is anything that 2021 has taught us, it is that you cannot take anything for granted, writes Shane Chorley, head of sales and marketing at Frogfoot. The local fibre landscape is evolving rapidly: changes in home and workplace behaviour, driven by the...
SA’s mobile coverage edges towards 100%
It's likely that the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) will cover an effective 100% of South Africa's population by the end of 2022. This prediction comes from Anton Potgieter, co-founder of NoPBX, a locally-developed, smartphone-based cloud PBX system...
Closing the digital divide through better use of fibre optic networks
The digital divide is more than just the difference between those who have access to the internet, particularly high-speed fibre optic broadband, and those who don't. It is impacting digital literacy and even social mobility. By Chris Shannon, CEO at Fotech The...
Lighting up the digital divide
Imagine beaming light from a fibre-connected suburban home to a 3D-printed wireless communication system to a school in an informal settlement across the road, providing learners with instant high-speed, reliable internet access. This is how the new Optical...
MainOne supports VIPNET with increased capacity
MainOne, the West African connectivity and data centre solutions provider, has upgraded Ivorian ISP VIPNET's capapacity form 155Mbos to 1Gbps. VIPNET is a telecommunications operator that provides connectivity services and technology integration solutions through the...
Vodacom deploys new sites in Northern Cape villages
Vodacom Central Region, covering the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, has switched on two new 3G and 4G enabled base station sites in deep rural areas in Kamiesberg Local Municipality, Northern Cape province. The two base stations were deployed in Kamasies and...
Telkom adds MTN as roaming partner
Telkom customers now have access to three networks following the group's recent addition of MTN as a roaming partner. Telkom operates a network of approximately 6 900 base stations & continues to expand this footprint. It entered into an agreement with Vodacom...
BT secures global partnership with OneWeb
BT and OneWeb have agreed terms for a new Distribution Partner Agreement, with OneWeb to provide Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication services across BT Group. This builds on an initial Memorandum of Understanding signed in July and means BT is testing how...
Telkom Kenya expands mobile data network with Ericsson, NEC XON
Telkom Kenya, the Helios Investment Partners and government of Kenya joint venture, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ericsson and NEC XON to add 2 000 wireless sites onto Telkom Kenya's network by 2023. The approximately $100-million nationwide...
Internet speed tests are useful as a rough guide, says ISPA
Speed tests should be viewed only as rough guides to the quality of broadband connections, says the Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA). An Internet speed test measures the connection speed - as well as the quality of the connected device - by running...