MultiChoice has announced a number of changes to its leadership team, including the appointment of Nyiko Shiburi as the new chief executive officer of MultiChoice South Africa.

Zain has been awarded the ‘Best Brand’ accolade for 2020 at the prestigious Telecoms World Middle East Awards for a record seventh consecutive year.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has re-emphasized the resolve of the Federal Government, through the Ministry, to continually advance the digital economy agenda of the country.

MTN Group has been named the most valuable African brand in the Brand Finance Africa 150 2020 ranking, which ascribes a brand value of US$3,3 billion to MTN.

Cambium enhances Express Wi-Fi initiative to simplify deployment and enable better connections for more people in more places

RingCentral, Inc. has announced that RingCentral Global Office™, a unified solution that includes team messaging, video meetings, and a cloud phone system, will be available in six continents including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

As the world is assessing the social and economic impact of Covid-19, society is also assessing the Covid-19 impact on the natural environment. Since most industries were closed during the lockdown period with a number of vehicles on the road reduced and aircrafts grounded, several studies have reported improved air quality in a number of countries.

Safaricom sustained more than one million direct and indirect jobs in the last financial year. According to the telco’s 9th Sustainable Business Report, it sustained 1,013, 728 jobs up from 979,000 which is a 4% increase from the previous financial year.

Egyptian last-mile delivery focused startup dreevo raised a six figure US dollar in a bootstrap, pre-seed funding round from EF Logistics, a third party logistic services provider, to introduce agile and affordable technological solutions that empower e-Commerce entrepreneurs.

Telkom approached the Competition Tribunal today to declare the suite of spectrum arrangements between Vodacom and Rain as a merger that should have been notifiable in terms of the Competition Act.

The IoT Industry Council of South Africa (I0TIC), established two years ago to represent the interests of Internet of Things (IoT) technology service providers in South Africa, is advocating for faster uptake of IoT technology by business and government in small, focused use cases.

Cell C in partnership with Facebook and the Saldanha Bay Municipality (SBM) have launched express public access hotspots and Cell C Fiber FTTH using the municipality’s fiber infrastructure.

Econet, through its subsidiaries Liquid Telecom Group (LTG) and Cassava Fintech International (CFI) has today launched a network of #SasaiWiFiFinder hotspots in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Rwanda, providing locals with most affordable internet access.

Africell, the US-owned mobile network operator with more than 12 million customers in four African countries, has adopted the industry-leading StormWall Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solution to improve security across its networks.