Kegan Peffer, CEO of tech startup Adoozy Power. Digital innovations are transforming every aspect of life on the African continent, from healthcare to agriculture; education to transit and logistics; from finance and commerce to media and entertainment. As Africa’s trailblazing fintech solutions have already proven, there’s limitless potential to solve intractable socio-economic problems; to leapfrog costly infrastructural development, and start providing services and products to non-consumers. All of this depends on connectivity. Mobile Connectivity in Africa According to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank more than 520 million Africans were connected to the internet by 2021, that’s 40% of all Africans, considerably less than global standards. Across the va...
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SIMcontrol, a leading mobile data connectivity platform for enterprises in Africa, has announced the launch of its fully-managed mobile APN product that connects company data SIM cards via a private & secure virtual network. The new APN-as-a-service enables pooled data across multiple mobile networks. This allows businesses to better manage deployed mobile data SIMs at scale. With the rapid acceleration in digitisation and increased deployment of connected devices, many companies are finding that traditional corporate mobile APN services are not delivering the controls and flexibility needed for today’s digital organisations. SIMcontrol’s Managed APN service provides end-to-end connectivity for a range of mobile data and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Deployed data SIMs can reach th...