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SA Deputy Minister of Communications to deliver keynote address at IOT Forum Africa 2019

Deputy Minister of Communications, Ms Pinky Kekana, is set to deliver a keynote address at the third inaugural IoT Forum Africa 2019, which is set to take place on 26 - 27 March 2019 at the Gallagher Convention Centre,...

Huge Group merges with Otel

Huge Group is merging independent telco company Otel with its networks business, Huge Networks (the Transactions). Huge Networks is a subsidiary company of the JSE-listed Huge Group and a data service provider and communications company. Otel is a nationwide provider...

ICASA chair gets 20 years in prison

Rubben Mohlaloga, chair of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA), has received a 20-year prison sentence for money-laundering and fraud linked to a Land Bank scam amounting to R6-million. Mohlaloga, ANC MP and chair of the parliament’s portfolio committee...

WhatsApp bans 2 millon fake accounts per month

Social media platform, WhatsApp bans about two million accounts per month from its messaging platform. According to the company, three-quarters of problematic accounts are identified without user report or human intervention, 20 percent of them at the time of registration. At...

Cisco commits to training 1 million Africans

At the Global Citizen Festival South Africa 2018, Cisco announced its commitment to training 10 million people worldwide for jobs in the digital economy, including 1 million in Africa over the next five years. The Chairman and CEO of Cisco,...

Satellite operator Avanti announces official launch of South African based operations

Avanti Communications Group, a leading satellite operator, providing Ka-Band satellite data communications services across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, have announced the official launch of its South Africa-based operations as of 29 August 2018. The announcement is...

Huawei, PRASA announce South Africa’s First GSM-R Rail Network Operation

Today at the Africa Rail 2017 conference,  the longest-running rail event in Africa held in Johannesburg, South Africa, Huawei and Passenger Railway Agency of South Africa (PRASA) jointly announced the first rail operational Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway (GSM-R)...

Avaya to take South Africa by storm

Business collaboration and communications could seem like a daunting prospect for any company, and while there are a number of them offering their services, Avaya is determined to differentiate itself and entrench its offering in South Africa. IT News Africa recently...

Gambian ISP selects American 4G solution

Gambian internet service provider Netpage has selected American communications technology provider Airspan Networks to rollout their 4G network in Gambia. The network will operate on the 2.3 GHz frequency band, leveraging Airspan’s Air4G flagship macro base station. Air4G allows Netpage to...

A split personality keeps things separated

The mobile revolution has already achieved great things in enterprise communications. At the base level, it has equipped employees to work and communicate anywhere at any time. To cater for this enabled workforce, communications technology vendors have extended their communications...
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Nium Partners with Ecobank for Cross-Border Payments in Africa

To facilitate smooth cross-border payments for over 32 million customers across 35 African markets, Nium, a global infrastructure for...
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