Orange Côte d’Ivoire has started the Orange 5G Lab, a place for digital professionals, new businesses, and start-ups. On Tuesday, September 20, the launching event was held at the Deux Plateaux Smart Store (Cocody, Abidjan).  The event was attended by Mr. Amadou Coulibaly, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Government Spokesperson; Ms. Christel Heydemann, CEO […]

In collaboration with Ericsson, MTN Nigeria has commercially launched the much-anticipated 5G network. The launch took place in Lagos, Nigeria, on September 18, 2022. The launch puts Nigeria among a handful of African countries with virtual reality (VR) for millions of new consumers. With Ericsson Radio System, MTN will offer advanced mobile broadband and fixed […]

  For many customers, 5G is still a long way off, but some companies have already started researching and building the next generation of wireless networks, 6G. It would appear that LG is now in the lead in this competition. The company recently said that it had successfully tested the wireless transmission and reception of […]

Nokia Kenya said that 4G and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing had been tested and worked well in Kenya. Safaricom, the largest telecom company in Kenya, is partnering with Nokia in this trial.  This news comes after Nokia and Safaricom said in March 2018 that they were working to bring the first 5G […]

In Lagos and Abuja, MTN’s leading telecommunications provider has switched on its highly anticipated 5G network this morning at one hundred and ninety sites across the country, with some users reporting speeds of up to 1.4 g per second. The launch of the service coincides with the date the National Communications Commission, NCC, set aside […]

The Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has updated its roadmap for the issue of spectrum in the 700MHz, 2600MHz and 26GHz bands, some of which will aid the country’s 5G ambitions. Given the high demand for the spectrum in question, ZICTA scheduled the release of 700MHz frequencies from Q1 2023 to Q3 2022. […]

A wide range of industries is expected to benefit from Nigeria’s 5G rollout scheduled for August 2022. For the most populous country in Africa, 5G will help deliver improvements in the fields of education, business, smart cities and entertainment. Benefits Of 5G To Nigeria’s Economy According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the benefits of 5G […]

Ericsson, a leading provider of 5G equipment in the US, has opened its Global Utilities Innovation Center, at its facility in Plano, Texas. The new state-of-the-art facility holds a purpose-built operating lab and demo environment locations that will allow utilities to engage with Ericsson and its partners to solve real-world connectivity challenges. Speaking in a […]

After emerging as the winners of the 3.5gigahertz(GHz) spectrum auction conducted on December 13, 2021, for the deployment of 5G technology, MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communication as been given a headway by The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to begin the rollout of 5th technological services (5G) on August 24, 2022. The commission disclosed confirming the […]

Zain which is Saudi Arabia’s leading telecommunications provider has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to access the GeForce NOW cloud game library from Zain KSA and enjoy the most powerful cloud gaming features courtesy of its partnership with NVIDIA, the leading provider of cloud computing solutions, across many markets in the region. […]

“Show me someone who has done something important, and I will show you, someone, who can endure adversity,” stated Lou Holtz, a former American player, and Head Coach. The Galaxy Backbone in Nigeria serves as network communications and data hosting infrastructure platform for both governmental and commercial sector organizations. ICT and telecoms companies faced an […]

  In collaboration with major technological infrastructure providers Ericsson and ZTE, Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s leading telecommunications carrier, introduced high-speed Fifth Generation (5G) mobile broadband technology yesterday. Econet is the first mobile network operator in the country to offer the service, which will begin in Harare – the country’s capital. Econet, which has invested more than […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) suggest the possibility of adding three more 5G licenses before 2024. This announcement was made by the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Umar Danbatta. MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communication paid a sum of $273.6 million each for the 5G license won in December 2021. Mafab and […]

Threatfabric, an online fraud detection business, recently disclosed that over 50,000 Android users have installed a Trojan that is capable of targeting over fifty-six banking apps. The Xenomorph, an alien species, inspired the name of this malware. At the moment, it only offers a few possibilities. However, the trojan appears to be in its early […]

It was only last month that it was confirmed that a new BlackBerry 5G phone with a keyboard would be released this year. This was supposed to be the first BlackBerry smartphone in years, but it appears that the device has been canceled after OnwardMobility lost the rights to the BlackBerry name. OnwardMobility was announced […]

In order to enhance internet penetration and technology adoption in South Africa, the government is offering every household, 10GB of free data every month. Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, announced this plan. On the 15th of February, during her state of the nation debate, the Minister ascertained that technology advancements such as […]

The adoption of the 5G network in Nigeria is pegged on its huge population, half of whom are poor. As of March 2021, there were at least 78.61 million 3G/4G mobile broadband subscriptions in Nigeria, according to Statista. This is a decrease when compared to figures from the previous month, but an increase from the […]

Orange Egypt has gained new frequencies. The National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) offered 30MHz in the frequency space of 2,600MHz with a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system. The frequencies were acquired for $440 million. While the government is expected to use this revenue for mobile phone services, Orange can deploy both 4G and 5G services […]

Buried deep in every individual is the fear of being left behind by society. We see this in the way people run after trends. People keep running to meet up societal standards of perfection in various aspects of life. This constant need to improve and do more has moved us from the 2nd, 3rd, and […]