Huawei Cloud surged by over 200% in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market for the second consecutive year, positioning itself among the top five IaaS vendors with 4.2% in global market share. This is based on a Gartner report.
Nokia has signed a deal to deploy comprehensive network technologies such as its AirScale Single Radio Access Network (S-RAN) to Angola’s new mobile telecommunications operator, Africell. This collaboration would enable 2G, 3G, and 4G services in the capital city of Luanda and expand the footprint of both Nokia and Africell in Africa.
Nokia and Vodacom South Africa are working together to transform the operator’s nationwide optical transmission network through Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset hardware to deliver high capacity transmission. Through a recent field trial, the companies achieved the highest data transmission rates and performance across their live optical network, demonstrating a significant increase in transmission network capacity for Vodacom South Africa.
The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with tech giant Huawei that will see African countries and organizations build capacity for ICT transformation.
Huawei is keen to be at the forefront of addressing the issues of sufficient, affordable, and reliable energy supply within Africa. At a recent virtual digital power event, Huang Su, director of Huawei Southern Africa Digital Power Business, emphasized that digital and intelligent technologies can be of great help to bridge the energy gap.
Petal Search, an easy-to-use application and search engine, pre-installed on new Huawei smartphones running on EMUI 10.1 or later, has announced a partnership with Jumia, the leading e-commerce platform in Africa. The partnership enables customers in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Kenya searching for products on the Petal Search shopping channel to conveniently click through to the Jumia product page and buy instantly.
The Bank of Tanzania (BOT) has issued an approval in principle to Cellulant Corporation to operate as a payment solution service provider (PSSP) in Tanzania having satisfied all the necessary requirements.
The opportunity to connect the unconnected has never been more prevalent. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is enabling an IoT ecosystem of 13,000+ IoT customers to date, helping to accelerate the digital transformation and development of connected products. Today, Qualcomm Technologies extends its support for the IoT ecosystem by introducing seven new solutions to help enable the proliferation of next-generation IoT devices: Qualcomm® QCS8250, Qualcomm® QCS6490/ QCM6490, Qualcomm® QCS4290/ QCM4290, and the Qualcomm® QCS2290/ QCM2290.
Nokia and Vodafone have launched a jointly developed machine learning (ML) product, running on Google Cloud, to quickly detect and remediate network anomalies before they impact Vodafone customers.
Nokia has launched its NetGuard XDR Security Operations platform and MDR services to provide communication service providers (CSPs) with stronger protection for their 5G networks, as well as new, revenue-enhancing security offerings.
