Organisations across sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly leveraging multiple cloud deployments to achieve digital transformation. The shift is one of the key findings in World Wide Worx’s Cloud in Africa 2020 report, which surveyed technology decision-makers in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Malawi. According to the study, 33% of organisations currently have multiple...
Azam TV has completed the migration of its video platform from the EUTELSAT 7B to EUTELSAT 7C satellite, with a multi-year extension of the existing contract and an incremental capacity commitment. One of Africa’s leading pay-TV operators, Azam will leverage the enhanced performance of Eutelsat 7 C to distribute some 120 channels in a mix of standard and high...
French telecommunications services provider Orange has partnered with Google to launch the Sanza touch 4G android device. Orange asserts that at a retail price point of approximately US$30, the Sanza touch is an accessible alternative for everyone and features including the Payjoy application, which allows customers to overcome budget issues by paying for their smartphone...
By the end of 2019, 477 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa subscribed to mobile services. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the mobile market in the region will reach several key milestones over the next 5 years, underpinned by continuous investments from operators in network infrastructure, and the need for a robust digital economy. Meanwhile, the 5G...
An extension of Africell’s partnership with KaiOS that started last year at AfricaCom KaiOS Technologies and Africell today announced that a new KaiOS–enabled smart feature phone, the 4G Vida K242, is now available in Uganda and will facilitate mobile internet adoption across the country. According to the Digital 2020 report for Uganda, there were 26.83 million mobile connections...
Global payments technology company Mastercard has unveiled a programme designed to facilitate the launch and expansion of fintech firms in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Mastercard says the Fintech Express initiative will support digital payment innovators by making it simple to collaborate with the company and its partner network to launch new fintech...
The organisers of the Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry’s biggest annual gathering, said on Wednesday they were postponing next year’s event to late June 2021 to make it possible to convene safely despite the coronavirus pandemic. MWC 2021, originally scheduled for early March, will now be held in Barcelona, Spain — its usual venue —...
Systems integrator Dimension Data, in partnership with its parent company NTT, is set to open data centres in South Africa “imminently”. This was revealed by Dimension Data founder and executive chairman Jeremy Ord and CEO Grant Bodley, in an exclusive interview with ITWeb this morning. “We see a huge demand for data centre capability in...
Paratus Zambia has deployed a 100Gig metro fiber ring in Lusaka, which is a first for the pan-African telecommunications Group. In addition to delivering Data Center solutions, the enterprise network will now also provide robust business fiber services, that guarantees uptime and quality connectivity. The capabilities of the fiber ring are unsurpassed, as it utilises...
Ransomware, A malicious malware that cyber criminals use to hold computer or computer files for ransom has become an increasingly popular way for malware authors to extort money from companies and consumers alike. In today’s ‘information age’, any temporary loss of data can totally disrupt business-critical processes leading to Lost sales, Reduced productivity, Significant costs...
