Airtel plans to roll out Nokia iSIM Secure Connect technology in several African countries over the next year Nokia today announced that Airtel Africa has selected its iSIM Secure Connect technology, in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, as part of the operator’s wider digitalization efforts to offer its customers 5G and IoT-based on-demand services. Nokia’s...
Nokia has been selected by MTN South Africa as one of its 5G RAN equipment providers. Under the deal, Nokia will modernise the existing 2G/3G/4G radio network and expand MTN’s 5G radio network across 2,800 sites in the Central and Eastern parts of the country. Nokia will provide equipment from its AirScale portfolio, including 5G AirScale baseband, Massive MIMO active antennas...
This announcement comes in light of the imminent launch of the new terrestrial data superhighway built by Liquid, connecting Kenya and South Africa Liquid Intelligent Technologies (www.Liquid.Tech), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, today announced that it has partnered with Nokia. Through this partnership, Liquid deployed Nokia’s innovative transport network technology in...
With the accelerating digital transformation, the needs of businesses and individuals are multiplying around the world. Telecommunications operators are exploring different formulas to meet this demand. Finnish technology company Nokia announced on Monday, August 22, the successful testing of its fixed wireless access (FWA) network segmentation solution on Kenyan telecommunications company Safaricom’s commercial network. This solution allows...
Nokia has appointed Pius Ang’asa as Country Manager for Kenya. He will be the primary interface with local authorities and government and be responsible for establishing and leading the Country Sales Committee (CSC) to foster Nokia’s business in the country across all customer segments. Rajiv Aggarwal, Market Unit Head of Central, East and West Africa...
Various African organizations have been increasing the number of strategic agreements to accelerate the digital development of the continent since last year. The African Telecommunications Union, one of the most important, has just added one more to its repertoire. The African Telecommunications Union and the Finnish telecommunications equipment supplier Nokia announced on Wednesday September 15 the...
Nokia has linked up with Safaricom, UNICEF and the Kenyan Ministries of Education and ICT, to connect close to 90 schools to the internet in the East African country. The initiative aims to ‘connect the unconnected’, with the ultimate goal of supporting the Kenyan government’s plans to scale broadband connection to all schools by 2030....
Nokia will improve Tizeti’s Internet access network. The operation will allow the Internet service provider to offer its customers high quality services and to move more easily to 5G if necessary. The Internet service provider Tizeti has decided to further strengthen its telecoms network to respond more effectively to the populations’ demand for quality Internet connectivity. The...
