Telecom

Telecoms, increased connectivity and the need for international cooperation

America has continued to pursue its current assault on Chinese technology, despite the country’s own rapidly increasing economic difficulties, which have dramatically impacted its own telecommunications infrastructure and development. The American government’s latest campaign, is against China Telecom. American government agencies have called on the country’s communication regulator (FCC) to end any outstanding authorizations, which […]

MTN Zambia Deploys Ayoba, the free instant messaging app

Ayoba MTN Zambia’s free instant messaging app has been launched and deployed earlier this week, in collaboration with music app Simfy Africa. It is currently available for download on all major Android devices from the Google Play Store. MTN Zambia’s Ayoba has many features, most notably, the ability for one to receive and send text […]

Covid-19 and its impact on the telecoms industry

So far 2020 has not been what we expected. The dreaded C word (Covid-19 or Coronavirus) has dominated the headlines and every aspect of our lives in recent months. Many of us around the world have been left wondering what this means for our working lives, and the future of the businesses we own or […]

Free Senegal and Comviva collaborate to bring Free Money

Free, Senegal’s second largest mobile service provider is pushing to deliver a world class digital money service for its customers, in partnership with Comviva’s mobiquity Money, the world’s largest mobile payment platform. Deployed in over 45 countries with more than 60 developments, mobiquity Money will bring the industries best practices and expertise to the table, […]

Deutsche Telekom is offering network services to Microsoft Azure

This week Deutsche Telekom announced that it will deploy managed network services to Microsoft Azure, making them the latest European partner. Deutsche Telekom will now be handling the network portfolio of Microsoft’s public cloud platforms. This will serve to strengthen both companies’ collaboration towards public cloud services. Frank Strecker, Senior Vice President for Global Cloud […]

eSIM STC has launched in Saudi Arabia – a milestone achievement

eSIM STC has launched in Saudi Arabia for the first time. This is a great step in the transformation of smartphone use, after acquiring international accreditation for the roll out, and marks an essential milestone in Saudi telecom. The national eSim platform is capable of providing services to all network operators, mobile and virtual, throughout […]

How are broadband companies coping with the pressure?

The broadband industry has been under the spotlight in recent weeks amid pressure to provide increased and unfaltering internet services to the masses of people now working from home and finding new forms of entertainment via streaming services. So far, the industry appears to be coping better than expected with the current pandemic. There has […]

Ooredoo Group steps up customer support during Coronavirus

Ooredoo Group has taken measures to support its customers across its digital footprint as the Coronavirus continues to spread, with digital solutions and relief measures, Ooredoo engineers are currently sharing knowledge online internationally that will better serve and support their customers. With the current surge in online usage, Ooredoo Group have drastically optimized network performance […]

Safaricom and Vodacom joint venture now own M-Pesa

M-Pesa money services are now entirely owned by Safaricom and Vodacom’s joint venture, after a deal was made with Vodaphone, the mother company of Vodacom. The companies, retain a 50/50 split on shares and have acquisitioned all support services, product development, as well as future decisions and strategy. M-Pesa – ‘M’ standing for Mobile and […]

Achieving fixed network costs for carrier networks

Telecoms attention is transferring to the fixed network, which has to handle the data generated by 5G networks and needs to deal with the existing, increasing connection that is presented at the network edge by fibre access networks. There is much of the so-called ‘mobile’ data that travels to and from smartphones and arrives via […]