MultiChoice has announced that French media company Groupe Canal+ has acquired more shares in the company, which means it now owns 12% of the total ordinary shares in issue. This follows news earlier this month that Canal+ SA has acquired 6.5% of MultiChoice Group’s total ordinary shares. Groupe Canal+ SA is a French film and TV...

Interoperability can help the mobile money industry shift to a higher gear, where customers can pay merchants and transfer money without having to consider which mobile money provider they are using. More so, end-to-end interoperability may provide more people with access to financial services and enable new services to address the needs of the most...

In 2010, Kenyan payments, money transfer and micro-financing service M-Pesa became the most successful mobile phone based financial service in the developing world, just three years after the launch by network operators Vodafone and Safaricom. Since then, while other developing markets such as the APAC and LATAM regions have dominated headlines, the African continent’s success...

telecommunication operators in Nigeria and other African countries are experiencing an increasing demand for their services. They noted that there would be need to invest more in infrastructure to meet the rising demand but fear that external funding might be difficult to secure.  The operators, who spoke at the International Telecoms Week 2020 Live: Connectivity...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the opening of AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region, effectively extending its datacentre footprint of 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions globally. The launch in South Africa has been on the cards for some time with the company having announced its intention to launch a Region for Africa back...

Extensia and RZproducts have answered Africa’s call for a range of high quality and high available datacentre solutions that can be easily and quickly deployed and installed across Africa. The RZproducts product range is unique and manufactured to the highest European standards with ‘plug and play’ self-contained solutions catering for small office requirements to stand-alone...

A recent press statement by Huge Networks and Connection Telecom has unearthed a secret telecoms war between VoIP providers and big telecoms companies. In the statement, Huge Networks technical director Anthony Engelbrecht said call blocking by South Africa’s biggest network operators is negatively impacting South Africans. Engelbrecht said call blocking means many local telecoms customers...

Governments all over the world have been considering cellphone surveillance to help track and contain the spread of the coronavirus. In Italy, Germany and Austria, Reuters reports, telecoms companies say they are turning over data containing location information to public health officials, though aggregated and anonymized to prevent individuals from being identified. Other media reports...

There’s little reason to think 5G frequencies are any more harmful than other types of electromagnetic radiation, like visible light. EVEN AS CARRIERS around the world race to build 5G networks, some government officials are reaching for the throttle, citing fears that the new generation of wireless technology could pose health risks. Earlier this year the...