Benin’s Minister of Digital and Digitalisation, Aurelie Adam Soule, has held a meeting with local ISPs to address concerns about the low internet penetration rate in the West African country despite the presence of major players and recent government efforts to boost the sector. As reported on the website of the Ministry of Digital &...
DataEQ (formerly BrandsEye) has published a new South African Internet Service Provider Sentiment Report, using data from social media, to determine how six of the country’s largest ISPs compare in the eyes of consumers. The company, which uses similar methodologies for its South African Telecommunications Sentiment Index – which is last published in April – tracked 24 000...
Telecom operators are increasingly looking to establish themselves in the streaming sector, which is a means of increasing revenues, among other things. But this turns out to be complicated, in particular because of the lack of dedicated platforms to help them in this regard. MwareTV, a cloud-based television platform, has just revealed a new end-to-end TV...
MyBroadband has released its Q4 2020 broadband and ISP report, which shows that Cool Ideas, MTN, and Afrihost are the best Internet service providers (ISPs) in South Africa. The report is based on 73,058 customer satisfaction ratings from South African broadband users between 1 October and 31 December 2020. These customer satisfaction ratings are collected...
The November 2020 South African ISP ratings revealed that MTN was the top service provider, outperforming Afrihost and Cool Ideas. The ISP ratings are based on thousands of customer satisfaction ratings from South African broadband users between 1 November and 30 November 2020. These customer satisfaction ratings are collected through MyBroadband’s Android and iOS speed...
The Q2 2020 MyBroadband ISP report revealed that Cool Ideas, Vox, MTN, and Afrihost were the top-rated Internet service providers (ISPs) during South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown. The national lockdown started on 27 March, placing tremendous pressure on fixed and mobile networks as most employees began working from home. Network traffic increased significantly, and support lines...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has licensed 20 new internet service providers (ISPs) this year, bringing the total number of operators in the segment to 120, CommunicationsWeek reported. The newly licensed companies to provide internet service include Last Mile Unique Integrated Services, Ciudad Infrastructure, Torrent Wireless, Fastfeet, Tripple Logic Telecommunications, Gutti Global Solutions, Telequip &...
