Last year, it was revealed that South African companies face average losses of R49.45 million due to data breaches. Recently, Cisco, in collaboration with Access Partnership and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, released a comprehensive whitepaper titled "Elevating Africa’s Cyber Resilience." This report underscores the urgent need to enhance cybersecurity infrastructure, upskill the workforce, and strengthen related policies across the continent.
The Liberian Telecommunications Authority (LTA) has introduced new regulations aimed at boosting fintech companies and enhancing competition in the mobile market.
Today, Africa represents just 2.5% of the global Artificial Intelligence (AI) market, but emerging applications could boost the continent’s economic growth by $2.9 trillion by 2030 according to AI4D Africa. A new GSMA report ‘AI for Africa: Use cases delivering impact’ developed from existing research and from interviews with leaders across civil society, NGOs, academia and the private sector, identifies over 90 AI use case applications in frontrunning technology markets (Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa) that can drive socio-economic and climate impact.
The number of active mobile money accounts in Tanzania has more than doubled in the past five years, reaching 55.8 million by the end of 2023, according to the latest statistics from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA). This marks a substantial increase of 116.2% from the 25.8 million accounts reported in 2019, meaning that over 80% of Tanzanians now have a mobile money account.
NuRAN Wireless Inc., a premier provider of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions, is delighted to announce an agreement with MTN Benin to deploy up to 200 rural 2G, 3G, and 4G sites under the Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) business model in Benin, West Africa.
The West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WATRA), a collective of telecommunications and ICT regulators in the region, aims to promote infrastructure sharing to reduce internet access costs in West Africa.
Enhancing regional cooperation improves connectivity among African nations. This connectivity is crucial for economic development, as it promotes trade, communication, and access to information. Through such partnerships, African countries can utilize collective resources to drive economic growth.
A global internet outage has caused widespread telecommunication breakdowns and shutdowns of Windows operating systems, leading to chaos at broadcasting stations, airports, railways, and banks.
MEF, a global industry association of network, cloud, security, and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation, has announced the conference program for its upcoming Global Network-as-a-Service Event (GNE).
Nokia announced a new partnership with Telecom Egypt to bring 5G technology to Egypt for the first time. The collaboration aims to revolutionize the country's telecom landscape by introducing the transformative power of 5G to cities including Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, Giza, and Luxor. Nokia will provide its comprehensive AirScale portfolio to deliver an exceptional network experience to Telecom Egypt’s customers including faster data speeds, enhanced performance, and capacity. Deployment will take place later this year.
