The minister of communications and information technology Amr Talaat and minister of tourism and antiquities Khaled El-Enany have held a follow-up meeting to examine the latest developments in the project of raising internet speed in all tourist facilities, nationwide, especially in Sharm El-Sheikh as a first phase. This meeting was held as part of the arrangements for hosting the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP27).
Phase3 Telecom, Africa’s leading independent aerial fibre optic network infrastructure and telecommunications services provider, has called for enhanced partnership of stakeholders in Information Communication Technology for infrastructural growth. This, the company believes, will accelerate development on the continent. This call was made recently at the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) “ICT Growth Conference” in Lagos.
Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, a leading pan-African technology group, announced a strategic cooperation agreement to explore reciprocal go-to-market strategies to bring Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services to Africa.
Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection announced the availability of a new Acronis cyber cloud data center in Lagos, Nigeria. The new data center, one of the 111 new data centers being deployed by the company, gives service provider partners access to a full range of cyber protection solutions upon which they can build new services while delivering faster access, constant data availability, and data sovereignty to their clients.
Competition in the satellite connectivity segment in Africa has increased. To reach more new consumers, operators are investing in improved Internet capabilities, among other things.
Ethiopia's suspension of a second telecoms operator permit will not delay Safaricom from launching the mobile money service this year, paving the way for the introduction of M-Pesa in the populous nation.
The British satellite company OneWeb says it is cancelling all launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is run by the Russian Aerospace Forces and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos.
As part of the launch of operations in the country, Safaricom is constructing a prefabricated data center in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Anwar Soussa, managing director of Safaricom Ethiopia, said the company's first data center has arrived in Addis and the company is working on its network rollout.
This year, Kenya's telecom regulator is set to deploy its 5G network on a pilot basis. Matano Ndaro, director of licensing, compliance and standards at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), announced that the regulator has developed a roadmap that outlines strategies to facilitate the deployment of this project. CA will start authorizing the first 5G pilot projects this year, then release the required spectrum bands and finally issue commercial 5G licenses.
SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions and smart network company Marlink, have signed a multi-year, multi-million-euro deal, which will enable Marlink’s customers to access SES’s next-generation medium earth orbit constellation (MEO) – O3b mPOWER, the two long-term partners have announced.
