Internet subscription in Botswana increased by 6.8% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to the latest figures from Statistics Botswana. Statistics indicate an increase from 2,144,247 in the third quarter of 2020 to 2,290,332 in the fourth quarter. Statistician General Dr Burton Mguni said mobile internet subscriptions increased by 7.0%, from 2,093,386 in the...
Botswana’s Minister of Transport and Communications, Thulaganyo Segokgo, has announced that plans to implement mobile number portability (MNP) have been abandoned after more than six years of preparation. A report from Mmegi says the Minister has told Parliament that the initiative would not proceed as an operator network readiness assessment study had shown that it...
Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNeT) intends to facilitate low latency connectivity for Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe via its 1 000sqm Tier III datacentre. According to BoFiNet the datacentre will be operated as a tier 3+ Uptime Institute certified vendor neutral facility open to all carriers, telecommunications companies and service providers. “With our tier 3+ national...
The Botswana Fibre Networks (BoFiNet) is building a Tier III+ standard, vendor-neutral Data Centre at the Botswana Innovation Hub that will improve performance, efficiency and reliability of business critical infrastructure in the ICT sector. The state-of-the-art facility, owned by the State-owned wholesale provider of national and international telecommunications infrastructure, will host at least 400 racks...
Start-up telecommunications services provider One Wireless has announced plans to deploy macro Wi-Fi solutions to “Wi-Fi blanket’ Botswana, covering several cities including Francistown, Gaborone, Kasane, Maun and Palapye. The company says the wireless technology, also known as ‘mass Wi-Fi’, guarantees a faster internet speed, and will benefit the public as well as IOT, OTT service...
African telco group Liquid Telecom is activating a new 82km cross-border link between South Africa and Botswana, as it seeks to improve connectivity between the latter country and Liquid’s 73,000km pan-African fibre network. The new link runs between Lobatse on the South African border and Botswana’s capital city Gaborone. Odirile Tamajobe, Managing Director of Liquid...
Liquid Telecom is to acquire full control of its unit in Botswana, buying the 42.5% of shares currently held by the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC). The two firms created Liquid Telecom Botswana as a joint venture in 2016, with the unit providing wholesale international bandwidth to incumbent fixed-line operator Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC), local mobile...
Botswana is currently a vast digital project with the Covid-19 crisis. The government has embarked on several technological projects which, in the long term, should transform the lives of populations. The Head of State detailed them to Parliament on November 8. The Republic of Botswana has accelerated its digital transformation. President of the Republic Mokgweetsi Masisi made this...
Botswana, Nigeria and Seychelles are likely to reach the United Nations Broadband Commission’s target of affordable broadband services of less than 2% of Gross National Income (GNI) per capita by 2023. This is according to a new report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Measuring Digital Development: ICT Price Trends 2019, which claims that broadband prices...
Orange Botswana has announced the launch of LTE-A services, increasing data transfer rates on its 4G network. The upgrades, which are being branded 4G+, have so far reached parts of Greater Gaborone and Francistown and will eventually cover much of the country, the operator said. As part of the launch Orange has also lowered the prices...
