Alcatel-Lucent and Main One Cable Company Limited, owner of a new cable on the West Coast of Africa, have signed a maintenance contract for the Phase 1 of the Main One cable system, an open access submarine cable network aiming to contribute to enhance African and international connectivity. Delivering high-speed bandwidth of 1.92 Tbit/s, the [...]
Facing some hard economic realities, an increasing number of publishers are looking to monetise their online properties by putting walls around some or all of their content and charging for it. Richard Mullins, director at Acceleration looks at the possible effects of paid content on advertisers and publishers’ bottom lines. The debate about how, when [...]
Kaspersky Lab reports that over 327 million attempts were made to infect users’ computers in different countries around the world during the first three months of 2010. This is a 26.8% rise on the previous quarter. Cybercrime is being fuelled by the spread of the Internet itself combined with ineffective legislation and growing unemployment. The [...]
More than 80 Communication Directors from companies, associations, government institutions, NGOs and universities recently gathered at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg to found the African Association of Communication Directors (AACD). This new network of in-house communication professionals from across the African continent will promote a dialogue and allows for the sharing of knowledge across [...]
DIRECT Channel Holdings (DCH) (Pty) Limited, a Business Process Outsourcing service provider operating in Southern and Eastern Africa, has provided Nigeria with a range of call and contact centre outsourcing solutions to banking, insurance, telecoms and retail customers. In partnership with XL Management Services Group, DCH’s services are now available in Nigeria and soon, across [...]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)’s new SIM(Subscriber Identity Module) card registration scheme designed to make registration of all SIM cards in the country compulsory before activation effective from May 1, has yet to become operational as the telecoms operators and the subscribers have yet to show any interest in the scheme. Many subscribers have lost [...]
Nigeria’s telecoms regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed that the long awaited Mobile Number Portability (MNP)which it announced in 2005, would be introduced in the second of this year (2010). Mr. Stephen Bello, the acting vice-chairman of the Commission, who stated this in Abuja yesterday, said it had become necessary to introduce MNP because [...]
A report released today by South African research firm, World Wide Worx, and backed by First National Bank, has revealed that the use of mobile Internet services has exploded in South Africa, although less than half of urban cellphone users who have Internet-capable phones use the Internet. The report shows that usage of specific applications [...]
Safaricom has launched mobile online chat and two-way email to their entire mobile customer base with ForgetMeNot Africa Over 15 million mobile phone subscribers in Kenya will now be able to access email and online chat regardless of the make and model of their mobile phone. All standard phones with the ability to SMS are [...]
The soccer World Cup in South Africa will have four satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications at the heart of the broadcast infrastructure that will enable channels around the world to deliver matches to their viewers. Eutelsat’s W2A, W3A, W4 and W7 satellites will support the resources deployed by rights-holding broadcasters to offer worldwide coverage of [...]
GLOBAL iBurst Nigeria Limited (Global iBurst), a subsidiary of Mauritian-based POP Broadband Limited, has acquired a licence to operate a mobile broadband network in Nigeria. The licence, issued by the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), would enable Global iBurst to deploy, launch and operate its network nationwide and provide fast, affordable and reliable Internet connectivity to [...]