Ethio Telecom announced that it was implementing a new 3 year strategy called Lead starting from July 01, 2022 with the aim of providing services beyond connectivity, enabling inclusive growth by providing digital and financial services, and simplifying the daily activities of organizations and individuals. The new strategy substituted the telecom’s strategy named Bridge which...
With the emergence of digital technologies in Africa, governments are increasingly realizing the importance of the creative economy for generating business opportunities to positively impact lives and develop the economy in general. The African Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and French Development Agency (AFD) have invested $618 million in the Digital and Creative...
ST Mary’s International School Dodoma Campus will start an online school programme from next year as part of implementation of a five-year development action plan focusing on transition in service provision. According to the Director of St Mary’s Dodoma Tibe Rwakatare, in the action plan, the school will start and run a high quality secondary...
Telkom subsidiary BCX is set to appoint two channel partners to resell Alibaba Cloud services in South Africa and the rest of the African continent. So said Jonas Bogoshi, CEO of BCX, last week in an interview with ITWeb after the company signed an exclusive deal with Alibaba Cloud to bring the Chinese company’s services to the...
South Sudan and Djibouti have signed an MoU to lay fibre optic cable from Djibouti to the South Sudan’s capital city Juba via Ethiopia. South Sudanese officials said the agreement will ensure that region is connected to the international community and reduce the high cost of internet. Authorities believe additional data capacity will enable the...
Telecoms operators in Cote d’Ivoire have met with representatives of the government and the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications in Cote d’Ivoire (Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications de Cote d’Ivoire, ARTCI) to discuss quality of service (QoS) issues. A report from Ecofin says the meeting was organised by the country’s Minister of Digital Economy and Telecoms, Amadou...
Over the past thirty years, access to telecom services has progressed worldwide. In Africa in particular, great changes have been observed at various levels. But weaknesses remain and are undermining the continent’s growth at a time of digital transformation. For a long time, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has advocated universal internet access in Africa, which will...
East Africa is in the midst of an unprecedented economic growth, fuelled by digitalisation across all sectors. The key to ensuring continuous progress along this path is affordable satellite connectivity alongside terrestrial networks, and governments are working closely with solution providers to enable this and empower their people. Alaa Alsadi is Business Development Director ...
Mitwa Ng’ambi, who took over office from Stephen Blewett on 1 September as the new CEO of MTN Cameroon, has met with several telecommunication industry stakeholders as part of a campaign to gage the level of industry support, activity and cooperation. Ng’ambi met with the CEO of IHS Towers Cameroon Abdallah Al Chammas during which...
The country is turning more and more to the telecommunications sector while revenues from oil are falling. In the second quarter of 2022, the ICT sector contributed 18.44% to Nigeria’s real GDP. The Nigerian federal government is set to earn 500 billion naira (USD 1.1 billion) from telecom frequency spectrum for 5G in 2023, Umar Danbatta,...
