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Nokia’s digitalization of 5G Oulu factory recognized by World Economic Forum
Nokia’s 5G factory in Oulu, Finland, dubbed as the “factory of the future,” has been selected by McKinsey and the World Economic Forum as an Advanced 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Lighthouse. This selection reflects Nokia’s leadership and success in adopting…
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Liquid Telecom to rollout South Sudan’s first fibre broadband
Liquid Telecom has announced plans to connect South Sudan to the “One Africa” broadband network, which is approaching 70,000km across 13 African countries and to the rest of the world. Phase one of the rollout is due to be completed…
Kaspersky collaborates with INTERPOL in fight against cybercrime
Kaspersky and INTERPOL have signed a five-year agreement to reinforce their collaboration in the fight against cybercrime around the world. This is the second agreement between the two parties, following the first signed in 2014. Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky,…
Orange Business Services, Genesis partner to deliver digital banking strategy in MEA
Orange Business Services and Genesis Analytics have partnered in a bid to prepare financial institutions to launch new digital ecosystem banking services in the Middle East and Africa. The partnership will help these financial institutions address the increasing disruption of…
YouTube retracts plans to launch sports live-streaming in South Africa
Calling all sports aficionados, players and of course, coaches — on Tuesday, 2 July 2019, YouTube released a statement sharing its plans to launch ‘live-streaming’ and video-on-demand services covering a number of major African sporting events. This well-received innovation came…
Nokia Global signs new African partner
On Wednesday, 3 July 2019, Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa announced it has signed an agreement with Nokia to market, distribute and service enterprise products and solutions including Wi-Fi, WDM, SDN, SD-WAN and IP/MPLS networking. In this partnering agreement, Westcon-Comstorwill help partners…
Naspers appoints new CEO
On 3 July 2019 Naspers, a global internet group, announced the appointment of Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa to the global Naspers management team in the position of CEO, South Africa. Mahanyele-Dabengwa will report directly to Bob van Dijk, Group CEO of Naspers.…
Apex Legends Season 2 begins on 2 July 2019
Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale first-person shooter video game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts (EA). Like most battle-royales, players are dropped onto one big map and have to fight to be the last one…
Michael Joseph named interim CEO of Safaricom
Safaricom has appointed Michael Joseph as interim CEO after the passing of predecessor, Bob Collymore. Collymore passed away in the early hours of Monday morning after succumbing to a two-year battle with cancer. An official document released by Safaricom read,…
SANS Institute to improve critical cyber-security skills in Saudi Arabia
The SANS Institute, a private U.S. for-profit company specializing in cyber-security training, has announced a training event for cyber-security professionals in Saudi Arabia called SANS Riyadh 2019. The event will take place from 28 July 2019 to 1 August 2019…
LG launches G8s ThinQ smartphone worldwide
LG has announced that their G8s ThinQ smartphone will be available for sale globally. The smartphone was first announced at the Mobile World Congress that took place in Barcelona, Spain, on February 2019. The G8s ThinQ was unveiled by LG…
Telkom ditches MTN in favour of Vodacom
On Monday, 1 July 2019, Telkom confirmed that it has made the move to switch roaming from MTN to Vodacom. This comes after the network provider announced last year that it would not be renewing its contract with MTN. According…
Investing in fibre is key to enable the growth of Africa’s digital economy
At the end of June 2019, the International Telecoms Week facilitated a panel discussion session where members spoke about the importance of investing in fibre infrastructure within Africa, in order to facilitate the development and growth of the continent’s digital…
4 Africa Exchange appoints interim CEO
4 Africa Exchange (4AX), has announced that Fay Mukaddam has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The CEO of RainFin Sean Emery will take over as interim CEO of 4AX. Mukaddam is still involved with the company as an…
Ruckus Networks debuts Wi-Fi 6 in Africa
Ruckus Networks recently completed its first use case in Africa at The Fourth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4) held in Nairobi Kenya, March 2019 Wi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax and the latest generation of Wi-Fi, bridges the…
Amazon’s PAYFORT to provide payment facilities via AjmanPay
Tuesday, 2 July 2019 — PAYFORT, a subsidiary of Amazon, announced a partnership agreement with the Government of Ajman, aimed at enhancing and extending the payment options currently offered by the emirate’s unified smart payment gateway, AjmanPay. The partnership will…
