The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) announced that it has issued regulatory summons against Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) for contravening the country’s Communications Act.Read More…
Namibia’s Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Joel Kaapanda has said two laws meant to protect citizens from defamatory content on social media are almost ready.Read More…
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) recently commissioned LS telcom to perform audits of 25 broadcast transmission sites in representative areas across Namibia.Read More…
Chip manufacturer Intel Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lantiq, a supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies.Read More…
The undersea fibre optic cable between Angola and Brazil is expected to be completed within a year, Angola Cables, the Angolan company, which is part of a consortium on the project has revealed.Read More…
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) is worried about the monopolistic state of the country’s telecommunications sector.Read More…
Optimus Technology and Telecom jointly hosted an partner meet to recruit more strategic channel partners which was attended by some of the leading telecom system integrators and resellers.Read More…
The Rwandan Ministry of Youth and ICT and the GSMA today announced an agreement to undertake a series of initiatives to increase citizens’ access to mobile broadband technologies across the country.Read More…
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…
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…
