Lynk intends to provide connectivity everywhere, whether land or sea, for the existing more than 5.2 billion mobile subscribers through their existing mobile network operator. Lynk Global has registered hundreds of unmodified mobile phones to an Earth-orbiting satellite that it calls a cell tower in space, the company said. Lynk Global said the achievement is...
Sometime later this year, ethereum is set to make the biggest change in its near-decade history, an event that’s certain to ripple through the entire ecosystem of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Think of it this way: the most important commercial highway in crypto is about to be completely repaved. Ethereum is essentially computer software that uses...
South Africa’s hospitality sector was hard-hit by the 2020 lockdowns and is still feeling the impact two years later. Even though restrictions have been lifted somewhat, international tourism is a fraction of what it was. This means that the market is more competitive than ever, and the customer experience is a point of competitive differentiation...
MyBroadband’s Q1 2022 speed test data revealed that South Africans enjoy the fastest mobile network performance on radio equipment from Huawei. The report is based on over 300,000 speed tests performed by MyBroadband speed test app users and controlled drive tests. MyBroadband’s speed test servers are hosted at Teraco’s vendor-neutral data centres to ensure a...
MyBroadband Insights’ Q1 2022 South African ISP report revealed that Cool Ideas, RSAWEB, and Afrihost are the top-rated service providers in South Africa. The report has also uncovered a concerning trend, where the customer satisfaction of most service providers has shown a significant decline. The report is based on data collected with the MyBroadband Speedtest...
In the modern world, it takes the audacity of leadership vision to build a connected smart city. Today, Lagos State is blazing the trail in Nigeria. In one of the most audacious Telecom infrastructure projects in Africa, the Lagos State government under its public private partnership scheme awarded, a few years ago, the construction of...
With a new logo and fresh ambitions, Africa’s largest mobile telecoms service provider is pivoting towards fintech and enterprise services as traditional voice and data markets lose their lustre. As the world increasingly becomes digitised, African telcos are calibrating their business models towards fully integrated digital and financial services enterprises. Continental telecoms giant MTN Group...
The findings of a joint study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and EDHECinfra, a venture of the renowned international EDHEC Business School, has revealed that large markets such as Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil and parts of Asia have huge potential to attract digital infrastructure projects but are untapped markets for fiber optics investments. This,...
Uganda is now saving shs 4 trillion shillings annually in costs because of digitization of its systems, the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) has revealed. Uganda is now saving shs 4 trillion shillings annually in costs because of digitization of its systems, the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) has revealed. Speaking during the...
As more African countries look to introduce digital currencies (for example Nigeria’s e-Naira), experts argue that the use of blockchain technology will add more transparency in the use of these currencies. Patrick Prinz from Bitcoin Association, a body focused on the Bitcoin protocol, explains that the decentralisation of information makes data more secure compared to...
