Mobile and Telecoms
Esharah deploys thousands of Airbus Tetra handheld communication devices to secure Expo 2020
Ali Bahlooq_GM_Esharah Esharah Etisalat Security Solutions, a subsidiary of UAE government entity Professional Communication Corporation (Nedaa) and the Official Secure Systems Provider of Expo 2020 Dubai, has deployed its state-of-the-art, mission-critical communication solution at the Expo site where it currently runs its Operations Center. Esharah has made available thousands of Airbus TETRA handheld communication devices to first responders assigned to the Expo to help ensure safety and security at the ongoing grand global event. Dubai Police, Dubai Civil Defense, Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS), and Expo security and site management teams, among others, that are operating at Esharah’s command and control center can easily connect with their staff on the field who are c...
Why Pay as You Go (PayG) Is Important for Telecom Operators?
The Pay-as-you-go (PayG) finance system has been around for quite some time, but its impact on device financing is relatively recent. As all businesses and most of the crucial operations even in our day-to-day lives rely heavily on technology, everyone desires to own their personal devices, especially smartphones. But with the soaring prices of the latest devices, apart from the elite few, the majority of people need to rethink their finances before taking a direct plunge into paying upfront costs of devices.What is Pay-as-you-go? Pay-as-you-go is a consumption-based cost model that allows the user to pay only for the services and usage that the user has consumed, contradictory to the traditional purchase model that requires the user to pay total upfront costs at once.While a certain popul...
MTN Building New Head Office in Côte d’Ivoire in Preparations for 5G Trial
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FNB Taps Vox Telecom to Launch New Fibre Solutions for SA’s SMEs
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Check Out Cell C’s Latest “Day-By-Day” Data Bundles
Image sourced from Town Press Cell C has launched new Day-by-Day data bundles that offer their customers the convenience of a bundle that automatically allocates new data each day. Simo Mkhize, CCO at Cell C South Africa says, “The bundles offer the benefit of a once-off upfront payment and daily data allocation gives our customers a sense of control and peace of mind that they won’t use up their whole bundle earlier than planned.” The new Cell C Day-by-Day bundles have launched with three competitive bundles ranging from seven to 30 days in validity and are available to prepaid, top-up and post-paid customers. The three new bundles that may be purchased by dialling *147# are detailed in the table below: Total Data (GB) Daily Allocation Number of Days Validity Price 7GB 1GB 7 Days Each day...
Zanzibar to Be Fully Covered by Balloon-Driven Mobile Internet – Is Kenya Next?
World Mobile’s balloon-driven hybrid mobile network solution. Image sourced from CityAM. World Mobile, a London, UK-based mobile network provider, is launching a unique hybrid mobile network supported by low altitude platform balloons in Zanzibar, as it plans to roll out its innovative service providing reliable mobile internet to more people at a lower cost throughout the African continent. World Mobile’s balloons will be the first to officially launch in Africa for commercial use, providing a more cost-effective way to provide digital connection to people compared to rolling out legacy internet infrastructure. The remotely controlled aerostat balloons are powered by solar panels, inflated by helium and tethered to the ground. Once airborne, they act as floating cellular base statio...
Paratus Connects East Angola to the Rest of the World
Henriques Manuel (left) – Director of the Office of Administrative Modernization of Luena. Internet Technologies Angola (ITA), part of the Paratus Group, launched its first broadband internet service in Moxico, Angola’s largest province in the east of the country. The new service is a significant intervention to unlock the potential for both the private and public sectors in the province, which spans 223,000 km2 and has a population of close to a million people. In line with the ITA/Paratus strategy to expand its quality network coverage, this new connectivity further consolidates the company’s commitment to the Government’s national telecommunications strategy to deliver inclusive fibre and digital services across Angola. Covering more than 1,000 kilometres, the new link begins in L...
SA Govt Planning to Bring Internet to All Homes by 2024 – Communications Minister
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, South Africa’s Communications and Digital Tech Minister. Image sourced from News24. South Africa’s Minister of Communications, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, says the country’s government is reviewing its plans to ensure that all South Africans have access to connectivity at their home by 2024. Speaking at the annual Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), Minister Ntshavheni said the European Union had committed itself to 1 terabyte to the home by 2025, and challenged the ICT sector to commit to similar targets for the country. “The challenge will be what South Africa should commit to given the development disparities that are not only a result of class differences but the geolocation of the person – the urban/rural divide” she s...
MTN Pulls Free from Yemen Leaving Behind Millions of Subscribers
Sourced from TheTechieGuy (https://thetechieguy.com/) MTN Group today announces the company’s exit from operations in Yemen in the Middle East. The company has been steadily pulling out from its operations in the Middle East, having left Syria in August due to “intolerable” operating conditions. MTN is also currently in talks to sell its business in Afghanistan. MTN leaving Yemen, the company says in a statement, is a transaction that furthers the delivery of its ‘Ambition 2025 strategy’ and is in line with its intention – first announced in August 2020 – to exit the Middle East completely. In August 2020, the MTN Group announced plans to focus on its pan-African strategy in place of other regions and exit the Middle East over the medium term, thereby simplifying its portfolio and reducing...
MTN SA Launches Huge Bevy of Black Friday Data Deals – Up to 60GB Free
Sourced from Business Tech MTN has lined up a series of value-for-money data deals for new and existing customers for Black Friday. From 19 November until 2 December 2021 South Africans can double their data with Black Friday specials on PayAsYouGo, Contract, MyMTN Home, MTN Business, MTN Pulse and MoMo deals. This summer, MTN is already offering data deals with “Go Big Go Bozza” to ensure customers can party, play, rest or revive with data for days. To further enhance this summer of data abundance, MTN is offering a huge host of Black Friday data deals. “The past 17 months have not been easy for South Africans but, with our amazing summer offerings and now our Black Friday deals, we aim to keep making summer a whole lot brighter. From doubling data to incredibly low data prices, we ...
A Price Has Been Set for MTN’s IHS Tower Deal – Here Are The Details
Sourced from PC Mag After a lengthly competitive process, the MTN Group has announced that its South African arm has finalised a passive tower infrastructure transaction with IHS Towers. The transaction will entail the sale and leaseback of 5,709 of MTN SA’s towers – comprising approximately 4,000 greenfield and 1,700 rooftop sites. The transaction will also include the outsourcing of power and related services (power as a service, or PaaS) across the entire MTN SA site footprint of approximately 12,800 – thus incorporating an additional 7,100 third-party sites. MTN says that one of the key goals of the transaction has been to achieve an “OpCo-friendly” outcome, which, amongst others, aims to ensure: A limited financial impact on MTN SA’s current running cost versus leaseback costs, improv...
How Wits University’s New “Light Beam” Tech Can Bring Fibre to Informal Settlements
An experimental setup in the Optical Communications Laboratory used to develop optimal error correction schemes. A team of students and lecturers from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is developing new technology at the Optical Communications Laboratory (OC Lab) in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. The team hopes the new low-cost innovation can bridge the peri-urban digital divide in South Africa. Visiting rooftops in search of optimal locations to test the system is one of the perks of the job. From left are students Alice Drozdov, Victoria Bench, Keitumetsi Khoza, Blake Denham with Dr Mitchell Cox, co-founder of the Optical Communications Laboratory at Wits University. The tech has been described as a beam of light “from a fibre-connecte...
