The number of internet exchange points (IXPs) established on the African continent has grown from 19 in 2012, to 46 in 2020. This indicates a 58% increase over the past few years, according to the Internet Society’s latest report, titled “Moving Toward an Interconnected Africa: The 80/20 Initiative”. While IXPs were founded in 1996, global...
By 2025, the number of subscribers to telecommunications services in Africa could exceed the forecasts of the GSMA. Remote areas are expected to contribute significantly to this growth. Avanti wants to answer them as quickly as possible. Over the next five years, Clear Blue Technologies, a company specializing in the supply of off-grid electrical energy, will deploy...
An unprecedented solution supposed to revolutionize financial inclusion in Africa, the Mowali project has still not really achieved its objectives. It must be said that since its establishment, it has encountered several obstacles, in particular regional regulations on financial transactions. Although things seem to be off to a bad start, Orange continues to believe in it. On...
There is a strong and urgent need to accelerate the growth of renewable energy across South Africa to ensure sufficient, affordable, reliable energy supply. The country also needs to drastically reduce its carbon emissions. This is according to Huawei, which is backing renewable energy coupled with technology-driven data and intelligence. Huang Su, CEO of South...
A fibre-to-the-home price analysis revealed that Openserve and Frogfoot are the most affordable fibre network operators, while Metrofibre is the most expensive. This analysis followed price cuts by two of South Africa’s largest fibre network providers – Vumatel and Octotel. In June, Vumatel reviewed and adjusted its products to simplify its product offerings in line...
2021 has been the year of the Data Cloud. Snowflake estimates that there are still hundreds of millions of data sets isolated in cloud data storage and on-premises data centres globally. The Data Cloud eliminates these silos, allowing a business to seamlessly unify, analyse, and share its data to reach deeper insights and even open...
While organisations across West Africa work to recover from the economic impact of the pandemic, the global cybercrime industry is going into overdrive. An increasingly sophisticated cybercrime industry is launching a range of attacks aimed at organisations and critical infrastructure. Such attacks are growing in volume and sophistication, putting our collective economic recovery at risk at a time when...
The Q2 2021 South African ISP report revealed that Cool Ideas, Afrihost, and Axxess are the best Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa. The report is based on data collected through MyBroadband’s mobile apps and web-based speed test portals between 1 April 2021 and 30 June 2021. After a user performs a speed test,...
Mobile broadband subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa are predicted to increase, reaching 76% of mobile subscriptions by 2026. However, 5G volumes are not expected to grow in the region for 2021 but are likely to reach around 70 million 5G subscriptions in 2026. This is according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report which projects that 5G mobile subscriptions...
Google Cloud has signed strategic partnership deals with telecommunications companies Orange and Ericsson, to develop cloud-based 5G and edge computing services to help organisations unlock new use cases. Accelerated by 5G, the Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that run on the same infrastructure that Google uses for its end-user products, such as...
