Botswana will float shares of the state run Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited on the local stock exchange this year. The government will retain 51% of the shares.Read More…
Namibia has started a process to switch off analogue TV as part of a move by the government to migrate to Digital Terrestrial TV. The state owned Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), in collaboration with free-to-air stations, One Africa Television and TBN, switched off analogue TV in the first phase ofRead More…
Telecom Namibia, the state telecommunications company plans to construct a fibre based network to connect all 14 regional capitals in the southern African nation. Communications manager, Oiva Angula said in the capital Windhoek that the construction of the primary fibre route to connect 14 regional administrative capitals is already completed.Read More…
Sunit Gadhia, marketing Manager, Pavan Computers Ltd in Uganda, talks about the IT reseller experiences in the Country.Read More…
Resellers in Uganda are facing a hard knock on their profits and operations as an 18% VAT introduced this financial year on all IT products takes its toll.Read More…
Syntech, a leading IT distributor has now become an exclusive distributor for SPEEDLINK products in South Africa.Read More…
Lenovo is preparing to relaunch Motorola smartphones in South Africa this year (2015), says Mohammed Kharroubi, Lenovo MEA Communications Chief.Read More…
Tactile Technologies of South Africa is looking to get partners in West-, Central- and East Africa, to distribute its growing touch-screen business applications.Read More…
The South African digital economy is booming – with rapidly decreasing prices of connectivity, coupled with more and more cheap and cheerful entrants into the smartphone game, the average South African is now more exposed to cloud computing than ever before. We are using cloud services, such as Facebook, iCloudRead More…
TP-LINK Technologies Co Ltd, a manufacturer of SOHO and SMB networking products and solutions, has announced it is moving its regional headquarters to a bigger office, as part of the company’s expansion plans for 2015. The move to bigger office premises comes as the company has been expanding its regionalRead More…
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Vodacom, South Africa’s largest mobile service provider, to build a gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) solution to expand Vodacom’s customer base enterprise and residential markets. The new converged network enables Vodacom to provide customers with ultra-broadband needed to access bandwidth-hungry services and applications such as online gaming and streaming video. According to Vodacom, it will deploy Alcatel-Lucent’s comprehensiveRead More…
Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has announced the deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa.Read More…
