China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and WIOCC, have partnered to build 2Africa, another submarine cable that is expected to become the most comprehensive subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region. The parties have appointed Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to build the cable in a fully …
Fixed broadband subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are expected to grow three-fold to 17 million in 2023, from their current levels of 6.6 million, according to a study from Ovum. This will bring increased opportunities for ISPs to fill the connectivity void and to benefit commercially by driving up data usage and growing revenues on …
A study conducted by data and analytics company, GlobalData reveals that by the end of 2018, a total of 43 out of 55 African countries (or 78%) will offer 4G services. In spite of this, there are a few laggards, one of them being Mozambique – a country of nearly 30 million people. However, in …
Lord Adonis has written to the telecoms regulator Ofcom urging it to take action to deal with the issue. It follows a report that one million homes have poor broadband and large parts of the UK have no 4G coverage. On Friday Ofcom said calls and text messages could not be sent on all four …
Wi-Fi adoption is growing in Africa with solution providers committed to developing viable services that improve the way we communicate and work, says Michael Fletcher, sales director sub-Saharan Africa at Nigeria’s Ruckus Wireless. read more