F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Kenyan telecom giant Safaricom opts to stop selling feature phones
One of Kenya’s biggest mobile network operators has announced that it will soon start pushing smartphone adoption in a big way: by phasing out…
Kenyan government plans to almost double the country’s bandwidth
Kenya’s government has announced plans to lay a fifth fibre-optic cable in the region, which is expected to practically double the country’s bandwidth capacity…
Swapping paper for pixels: Kenya aims to digitize school curriculum by 2015
Kenya’s education minister has announced that his ministry is planning to digitize the entire school curriculum by 2015, a move that will see the…
MasterCard launches next gen touch screen bank card in Singapore
As part of a partnership with Singapore’s Standard Chartered Bank, MasterCard has launched its next generation interactive card, which features an embedded display and…
Google-backed project rolls out Wi-Fi hotspots in major Kenyan cities
Internet users in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya can now connect to cheap Wi-Fi on the go following a continuing roll out by search…
Phone tech to enable rural Nigerians to surf the web in local languages
A phone technology called InternetSpeech could allow more than 100 000 illiterate farmers and traders residing in Nigeria’s rural areas to browse the web…
Music service rara.com launches new apps, enters 7 new countries
UK-based music streaming service rara.com has announced that it has expanded to reach 27 countries worldwide — including South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong,…
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