Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Gilat Satcom has unveiled the launch of its ‘Village Island’ portfolio, which according to the company enables rural villages and remote communities in Africa where ARPUs are low to take control of their digital futures. According to the company, the Village Island will be launched at the Innovation Access Digital […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork ZTE Corporation has selected Mitsumi Distribution as its strategic distribution partner for the continent. The agreement is expected to cover Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Namibia, Tunisia, Cameroon, Madagascar, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Botswana. The companies have agreed to co-invest in technical
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork More than 100,000 New Yorkers have enrolled in the city’s municipal identification program, which launched four months ago to much fanfare from immigrant-rights advocates, and 83% of that number have actually received their cards, according to a report submitted Thursday by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. Since its launch in
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork (Reuters) – Senegalese President Macky Sall has asked the Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to help his West African country tap the Islamic finance market for a second time as it seeks to organise financing for infrastructure projects. The arid Sahel country launched its first Islamic bond through a
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Follow Us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork 52 African countries are now connected to submarine cables, either directly or by terrestrial cross-border fibre optic networks. 44% of Africans live within a 25-km reach of a fibre node. The key question now is which cities and suburbs are taking the lead in building access networks? In an attempt
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Good news for laptop and smartphone buyers: a novel flash-memory design should cut costs and boost capacity. Intel, Micron and Toshiba want to give you the best of both worlds when it comes to flash memory, the storage technology used in smartphones, tablets and higher-end laptops. Today, smartphones and tablets
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Google’s Cloud service just got a little easier to use. Today, it announced Google Cloud Launcherwhich makes it easy to deploy applications like WordPress or entire stacks like LAMP in a single click. The new launcher features more than 120 open source applications that are either configured by Bitnami or
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Phase3 Telecom has revealed plans to begin the deployment of an aerial fiber optic infrastructure from Kano in Nigeria to Gazaoua in the Republic of Niger. According to Phase 3 Telecom, the network will run from Kano state through Katsina state before arriving at Gazaoua. Phase3 also revealed that the
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Journalist and author Howard W. French and more than 150 other writers and professors sent a letter to “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Jeff Fager on Wednesday faulting the CBS News program for its “frequent and recurring misrepresentation of the African continent.” “In a series of recent segments from the continent,
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork MTN Business has launched Bring Your Business Online, a platform that gives small and medium-sized businesses (SME) increased visibility by providing online presence on the MTN managed domain for less than R20 a month. “SMEs are the lifeblood of the South African economy, however, many of them are limited from
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