Intelligent Telecom
Safaricom and Huawei receive Most Innovative Service Award at AfricaCom 2019
Safaricom and Huawei jointly received the prestigious Most Innovative Service, ‘the Business of Tomorrow’, award at AfricaCom 2019 in Cape Town. The award recognises the two companies for offering a revolutionary new Mobile Money Overdraft service, known as ‘Fuliza’, which...
InterSAT selects Hughes JUPITER System to power satellite services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hughes Network Systems, a global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced that InterSAT Communication Services FZCO (InterSA), one of the largest and most respected providers of Internet solutions in Africa, has selected the Hughes JUPITER System to...
MTN South Africa selects Ericsson for commercial 5G Core and Radio
Ericsson has been selected by MTN South Africa as a 5G network modernisation vendor. It will supply 5G products and solutions from its Radio Access Network (RAN), transport and core portfolios, with commercial rollout expected to start in 2020. As part of its transformation...
Sectranet and Nokia to provide high-speed broadband services to Nigerian users
Nokia has announced that Spectranet, Nigeria’s largest Internet Service Provider, will bring high-speed access to customers in Lagos and Abuja by deploying its GPON solution as part of an extensive Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) rollout. The solution will enable Spectranet to...
Features
SANParks CIO Kamal Pillay on connectivity challenges
Being responsible for South Africa’s 19 national parks takes a lot of hard work, especially because there are severe connectivity...
Next-gen Wi-Fi for smarter buildings and cities
Following the white paper released by the World Broadband Alliance (WBA) that provides deployment guidelines for a number of...
VMware expert talks about Information Technology in Kenya
Mark Reynolds, Commercial Business Executive – Sub Saharan Africa at VMware, talks to Intelligent CIO Africa about Information Technology...
Kaspersky Lab expert on the Information Technology landscape in Kenya
Over the past three years, the ICT market in Kenya has seen the likes of the Internet of Things (IoT), virtualisation, and cloud storage...
Insights
BSS to support telcos transform for 5G adoption
Hassen Hamza, Pre-Sales & Business Development Director, MEA, at Nexign, tells us that business support systems (BSS) will need to...
Next-gen Wi-Fi for smarter buildings and cities
Following the white paper released by the World Broadband Alliance (WBA) that provides deployment guidelines for a number of...
Ovum and Juniper cybersecurity webinar
A Cybersecurity webinar by Ovum and Juniper Networks. Speakers Andrew Milroy, Head of Advisory Services APAC, Ovum, and Harry Toolseram,...
Connected intelligence and 5G to impact how industrial sector approaches quality control
The research that surrounds Artificial Intelligence (AI) is plentiful and varied. There are reports from Gartner that highlight how it is...
Case Studies
Diamond-rich capital of Eastern Sierra Leone deploys InfiNet’s wireless solutions
InfiNet Wireless has helped to create a reliable backbone network to increase capacity and deliver faster wireless connectivity. Koidu is...