ICT policy a challenge for Africa

Policy implementation remains one of the key challenges facing African governments with regard to information and...

Cheap smartphones will drive broadband in Africa

The rapid drop in smartphone pricing will play a major role in bringing Internet connectivity to...

MTN goes LTE in Uganda

MTN Uganda plans to deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Uganda during the coming months,...

Eskimi in tune with iROKING

Eskimi, one of the largest social networks in Africa and iROKING, an African music site, have...

ACE cable switched on in 13 African countries

France Telecom-Orange and the other members of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have announced...

Airtel completes LTE trial in Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria has completed a Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in Lagos, the commercial nerve centre...

Huawei, World Remit, expand mobile remittance in Africa

WorldRemit and Huawei have announced a partnership making WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all...

Going cashless is a priority for Africa tourism

Although tourism in emerging markets grew from 30 percent in 1980 to 45 percent in 2015...

Behind the rise of innovation accelerators in Africa

While businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa have steadily been adopting 3rd platform technologies, many are adopting disruptive...

IBM invests in Africa

As the tech world recognises the opportunity that Africa presents as one of the few growth...

Kinshasa gets Internet exchange

A new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) was launched earlier this month in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of...

MEF launches African Office

MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, has launched a dedicated regional office in...

Africa’s first all-LTE networks for the East

Smile Telecoms has extended its partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, to serve as its sole LTE network provider...

Airtel offers free roaming incoming calls

Airtel today introduced the world’s first free intercontinental incoming roaming service by including India, Bangladesh and...

Smartphone sales grow in Africa

While 2018 was a tough year for worldwide smartphone shipments, Africa experienced year-on-year growth for first...

Mobile payments speed up in Africa

At this year’s AfricaCom conference currently being held in Cape Town, Fundamo reported an accelerated growth...

SEACOM doubles-up in Egypt

Last week SEACOM activated the second of its two terrestrial routes across Egypt, positioning it as...

EA mobile games for Africa

Games developer, Nazara Technologies and Electronic Arts announced they have entered into an agreement to distribute...

These are the trends driving innovation in Africa

According to new research, across all consumer industries, innovation in sub-Saharan Africa is seeing new products...

Kenya’s MoDe takes first tech honours

IBM has announced the winner of its first Africa Smart Camp at Tech4Africa Conference yesterday. Kenyan...