Browsing: broadband

 South Africa has approximately 23,000 public schools, yet around 17,000 remain completely offline¹. That means only about 6,000 have some…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s satellite internet venture, Starlink, has formally endorsed South Africa’s proposed Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy reforms,…

There is a growing infatuation with Starlink in South Africa. As regulatory hurdles ease, the satellite-based broadband service is increasingly…

Cape Town, AfricaTech Festival  -The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa under…

Ever since the news broke last week that Vodacom, South Africa’s largest cellular network operator, had its bid to buy fibre network…

For 35 years, Sparrow Schools has provided affordable, quality education to children and youth facing barriers to learning or coming…

South Africa’s pursuit of digital inclusion faces a significant hurdle – the high cost of broadband access, especially in underserved…

The Gauteng Department of e-Government requires R700 million to upgrade the province’s internet infrastructure, but currently lacks the necessary funds,…

Broadband connectivity in South Africa has been transformed thanks to the proliferation of fibre optic cables installed across many of…

SEACOM, the leading converged ICT services provider in Africa, encountered a service-affecting outage on its subsea cable system on the…

On Monday, BT Group, the largest telecommunications provider in the UK, announced the activation of its inaugural electric vehicle (EV)…

South Africa’s telecommunications regulatory authority, ICASA, has issued a warning, declaring the utilization or facilitation of access to SpaceX’s Starlink…

The Smart Africa Alliance has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Bayobab and Africa50 to provide regulatory and…

CSquared is propelling the growth of its carrier-neutral, open-access broadband infrastructure through a recent infusion of equity investment from both…

Paratus Zambia today announced that Starlink has launched its business services in Zambia today.  “It is a very exciting opportunity…

In a groundbreaking development, Bayobab, previously known as MTN GlobalConnect, has received regulatory approval in Nigeria for its National Long-Distance…

Huawei South Africa and the Department of Communication and Digital Technologies (DCDT) have officially launched partnership programmes aimed at enhancing…

Twenty years ago, if you asked business leaders what their most essential utilities and business enablers were, they would have…

Liquid Dataport, a business of Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a pan-African technology group, is seeing a surge of Internet traffic…

The South African government plans to connect 1.7 million households to high-speed internet. The project will be realised through the…

Digital Telecommunications, also known as telecom, is a broad term that defines the exchange of information over long distances. Telecom…

Transnet, which owns and operates the ports, rail freight, and pipeline network of SA, is looking for equity partner to…

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has called for the modernisation and harmonisation of regulatory frameworks across Africa as well as…

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has promulgated seven final Radio Frequency Spectrum Assignment Plans for International Mobile…

Africa is on the cusp of a broadband explosion but must address significant challenges to ensure that the continent and…