City of Joburg Broadband Project to go live in July
The City of Joburg Broadband Project will go live on 1 July 2013 after a 3 year build phase, which BWired will operate for 12 years. The completion of the fibre optic network covers all 7 regions of the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) municipality, and will deliver a live network that will immediately be able to offer key services to all municipal buildings More...
Microsoft partners with Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
Microsoft today announced a TV white spaces pilot project in collaboration with the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) and UhuruOne to provide affordable wireless broadband access to university More...
Telecel to sponsor Zimbabwe’s first broadband forum
Zimbabwe’s first Broadband Forum, which is being sponsored by Telecel and a number of other companies, is scheduled for 10 May at Cresta Lodge in Harare. Telecel will sponsor Zimbabwe's first broadband forum More...
Libya: Rawafed, Eutelsat Communications to boost wireless broadband
Rawafed Libya for Telecommunications & Technology, a leading Internet Service Provider in Libya, has sealed a multi-year agreement with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on the KA-SAT satellite to support More...
Universal Service Funds key to driving broadband in Africa
It is critical that African governments and the public sector work together more closely than ever to deliver universal broadband access across the continent if it is to drive economic growth, create jobs and provide More...
MTN Uganda announces LTE network launch
MTN has announced its launch of Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Uganda and claimed to be the first mobile operator in the country to do so. LTE is the latest technology in the world with the fastest Internet More...
Connectivity critical to West African wholesale telecommunications
West African communications services company Main One recently joined Africa’s top telecoms carriers and executives to discuss the future of the West African wholesale telecoms market, and proffer solutions for More...
South Africa’s broadband could jeopardise economic growth
In its annual Global Information Technology Report 2013, the World Economic Forum warned that countries such as South Africa are at risk of damaging their economic growth if they fail to tend to the currently More...
Liquid Telecom strengthens East African fibre network
Liquid Telecom has announced significant improvements to its fibre network along the East African coast which have already reduced congestion, improved connectivity and resulted in the lowest latency rates on the More...
South Africa: Google part of country’s first TVWS trial
Carlson Wireless has announced the launch of the first TV White Space (TVWS) trial in South Africa. Led by Google, the trial will test TVWS wireless broadband in ten schools across the Cape Town area. Carlson, More...