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General News
South Africa set to launch its first 5G wireless network
South African wireless solutions provider Comsol has caught many off guard within the telecommunications sector in the country by formally announcing plans to deploy South Africa's first 5G wireless network using bandwidth it has access to in high-frequency spectrum.
Africa to combat urbanization by accelerating development of ‘smart cities’
Africa is expected to be the fastest urbanizing continent in the world by 2020, and many political leaders within the region believe the best way to be able to cope with booming urban populations is the development of newly developed ‘smart cities’.
50 percent of viewing will be mobile in 2020
Ericsson recently unveiled the eighth edition of its annual ConsumerLab TV and Media report, which details the massive growth in TV and video viewing and the ongoing shift in the way consumers watch content.
Telecom Review extends its coverage in the African continent
Following eight years of continuous success and focus on the African telecoms and ICT sector, especially in the French speaking countries of Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast and in other non-French speaking African nations such as South Africa, We’re very happy to announce with our French edition, as of January, the launch of Telecom Review Africa which will cover the whole continent with bilingual content in French and English.
Yahoo says up to 3 billion user accounts were hacked in 2013
Yahoo has revealed that up to 3 billion user accounts were hacked in 2013, tripling the number it said were affected by what was already the largest user data breach in history. The company previously said that up to 1 billion accounts were hacked in 2013, in addition to 500 million accounts being hacked in a separate incident in 2014.
Africa will have over 1 billion broadband connections by 2022
Mobile data will be the main driver of growth in the African telecoms market, with the number of mobile broadband connections on the continent set to more than double over the coming five years, and rise from 419 million at the end of 2017, to 1.07 billion at the end of 2022, according to analysis and consultancy firm Ovum.