Over the last three years, SA, Nigeria and Kenya have maintained their positions as the top three market contributors to e-commerce in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. In 2020, West African nation Ghana also broke ground, tied in third place with Kenya. This is according to Visa’s “E-commerce developments across Sub-Saharan Africa” white paper, which highlights...
Global cloud communication firm Infobip has integrated voice and SMS capabilities for Jiji Africa, an online marketplace in pan-African countries including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania. Aside from the initial project in Nigeria, the voice and SMS channel implementation was recently expanded to Jiji’s operations in Kenya and Ghana as the company’s activities in those...
By 2025, the advancement of the information society accelerated by Covid-19 will increase demand for high-speed connectivity across the world. Many operators are already positioning themselves accordingly to take advantage of the growth that is emerging in the data market. However, some solutions implemented by large telecom companies to satisfy their consumers, even those in the most...
President Cyril Ramaphosa hit out at telecommunications companies for bringing legal action against plans to issue more broadband spectrum, urging them to resolve the matter for the benefit of the country. MTN Group, which has the second most subscribers in the country, and Telkom both appealed to courts about how the regulator is arranging the auction,...
A recent study conducted by Professor Peter J. Talling and a team from the Departments of Earth Sciences and Geography, from the University of Durham in the UK, co-led by Angola Cables and supported by the Vodafone Group, British Telecom, NERC Environmental and others, has delivered important findings presenting valuable insights for the routing and protection of future...
African countries are some of the fastest-growing internet markets, but lack the necessary digital infrastructure Behind the scenes of its ancient quays, container seaport and pastis sellers, the French city of Marseille is also the linchpin of Africa’s internet. Its high-tech data centres are vital for Netflix streaming, social media and cloud services, accessed via...
Emerging markets telecommunications group Millicom, owner of Tigo-branded operations across Latin America and Africa, said it has signed agreements with two institutional investors to sell its entire stake in UK-based Helios Towers for an undisclosed sum. Helios owns towers in six African markets and recently announced an agreement to acquire Omantel’s passive tower infrastructure to establish its...
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, recorded year-on-year growth of 36.6% in the first quarter of 2021 – the highest annual growth seen in the region since Q1 2006. That’s according to the latest industry analysis conducted by International Data...
A new, and viral, phishing scheme has seen fraudsters putting mobile users’ financial information at risk, according to Kaspersky. The cybersecurity company revealed that attackers, typically under the guise of a postal service, request a small sum of money for the shipping costs of a package. Once a user clicks on an SMS authentication code...
The African region has witnessed continued growth, albeit slow, in most areas of ICT infrastructure, access and use over the last four years. This is one of the key takeaways from an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report titled: “Digital trends in Africa 2021”, which examines ICT adoption on the continent since the last World Telecommunication Development...
