Chinese tech giant Huawei has renewed its commitment to support Botswana in building ICT infrastructure. David Zhang, MD, Huawei Botswana, said the company has taken an active part in Botswana’s ICT planning and development and will assist the country roll out new tech facilities. “We have built successful relationships with local operators and enterprises, so...
MTN Group and Huawei are partnering to deploy an affordable connectivity solution, RuralStar, in Ghana, which provides online access to remote and rural communities. The two penned a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday at the Mobile World Congress to strengthen strategic cooperation in environmental, social and governance matters. With RuralStar, MTN says, the solution overcomes...
Ethio Telecom, the state-owned incumbent in Ethiopia, has started a project to encourage start-up technology companies. The Ethiotel Innovation Programme, which is being run in association with the local branch of Chinese vendor Huawei, will focus on digital finance and technological businesses and innovators. Ethio Telecom CEO Frehiwot Tamiru (pictured) said: “This is a golden...
Huawei Cloud South Africa believes that public cloud will develop into the strongest channel for value and that South African resellers stand to gain a lot more amid an increase in cloud migration and uptake of relevant services. The Chinese multinational ICT and telecommunications firm, alongside its distribution partner Pinnacle Cloud, hosted a reseller partner...
The online product launch themed “Huawei IdeaHub-Intelligence at Your Fingertips” was attended by over 300 African business leaders and ICT experts, who exchanged views on digitisation of African enterprises.
The Trump administration has fired multiple salvos against Huawei Technologies Co. since the start of a campaign to derail China’s technological ascendancy. The latest blow threatens to cripple the country’s tech champion.
Huawei Northern Africa’s regional office1has announced the appointments of Adnane Ben Halimaas Vice President ofPublic Relations for the Mediterranean region and Loïse Tamalgo as Vice President of Public Relations for Sub-Saharan Africa, effective Wednesday 6 May 2020.
Cape Town — MTN has taken a giant step in its network evolution plan towards fifth-generation cellular technology (5G) with the launch of a C-band 5G trial with Huawei. C-band, also called ‘golden band’ for 5G spectrum, is a valuable segment of spectrum and comprises of a frequency range of around 3.3 – 3.8GHz. At...
An interesting new addition to the growing number of African countries looking at 5G is the Republic of Cabo Verde, some 560 kilometres off the west coast of mainland Africa. This news follows the award by Cabo Verde’s Multisectorial Regulatory Agency of the Economy (ARME) of commercial 4G LTE mobile licences to incumbent operators CVMovel...
