Users of new SIM cards should only get marketing messages from their mobile operator, South African networks told MyBroadband. We recently purchased and activated SIM cards from South Africa’s four major mobile operators. We found that once the SIMs were inserted into our test phone, the respective mobile operators started sending welcoming and onboarding SMSes...
New research from the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) finds high cost of internet-connected devices in many countries keeping people offline. Billions of people are unable to access the benefits of the internet because of the high cost of mobile devices, according to a new survey of smartphone prices in 70 low and middle-income countries. A staggering...
A quality connection is now more important than ever before, to support businesses in tough trading times. Paratus South Africa, part of leading pan-African telecommunications service provider, Paratus Africa, is investing in the South African satellite market to offer quality connections to the region and the rest of Africa. Satellite technology provides Internet Service Providers...
Despite the surge in mobile internet adoption in the past few years, about 800 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa remain unconnected. Broadband Commission, an initiative established by UNESCO and the ITU, estimates that about USD 100 billion worth of capital investments would be needed to achieve universal broadband connectivity in Africa by 2030. The Commission found out that almost...
Mobile Network Quality Report showed that MTN has by far the best mobile network in South Africa. MTN’s average download speed in Q2 was 52.28Mbps, well ahead of Vodacom on 29.08Mbps, Telkom on 20.16Mbps, Cell C on 17.62Mbps, and Rain on 10.64Mbps. MTN’s average upload speed of 18.92Mbps was also much higher than Vodacom (11.36Mbps), Rain...
More than 500 million people use the Google voice assistant — found on Android phones and other Google devices like smart speakers — each month. This is just one sign of how quickly voice-powered artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming a part of our everyday lives. You can already ask the Google Assistant to help you with...
Eutelsat Communications (Paris:ETL) (Euronext Paris: ETL) and CANAL+ have signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for Ku capacity on EUTELSAT 7C to support the launch by CANAL+ of a premium DTH platform in Ethiopia at the beginning of 2021. Leveraging Eutelsat 7C’s incremental capacity dedicated to Ethiopia, CANAL+ will launch a comprehensive broadcast offer encompassing a DTH...
While the challenges of inadequate infrastructure, rural isolation, energy and high data prices remain to be overcome, no one can deny that the entire continent is digitizing at a rapid pace. unprecedented. Today, we cannot talk about development without talking about the digital economy. According to Internet World Stats , the Internet penetration rate in Africa stood at...
Eutelsat is the world’s third-largest satellite operator by revenues with a market cap of EUR 1.91 Billion (16 July 2020). Eutelsat provides coverage for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Africa accounted for 7.7% of Eutelsat’s total revenue across all market segments in H1 2019/20 at €48.9 million, which is a 5.8%...
DCP has identified that half of the countries in Africa have now launched third-party Data Centre facilities with total African Data Centre space and power being equivalent to markets in Spain or Switzerland. A report forecasts that the Southern Africa Region accounts for 54 per cent of total third-party African Data Centre raised floor space...
