East Africa Com 2021: Smartphone and data affordability
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Content posted in May 2021Kenya, SA worst hit by mobile payment fraud
- Paula Gilbert
IoT in Africa: Connecting telcos and communities to unique opportunities
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SA operators can keep using COVID emergency spectrum, for now
- Paula Gilbert
Raxio plots African growth with data center in Uganda
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MTN 'bitterly disappointed' to miss out on Ethiopia license
- Paula Gilbert
Safaricom consortium gets Ethiopia license
- Paula Gilbert
Telkom SA's mobile customers pass 15M
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East Africa Com 2021: Ethiopia deep dive
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East Africa Com 2021: Beyond the 4IR buzz
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MTN to recruit 10,000 mobile money agents in SA
- Paula Gilbert
Vodacom earnings rise despite pandemic woes
- Paula Gilbert
Hot startup of the month: Kenya's Illuminum Greenhouses
- Tom Jackson
Ethiopia would have liked Orange & Etisalat to bid for licenses
- Paula Gilbert
Pandemic eats into Safaricom's M-Pesa revenue
- Paula Gilbert
Airtel Africa sees major mobile money, data growth
- Paula Gilbert
Orange prioritizes renewable energy in Africa
- Paula Gilbert
Omdia View: April 2021
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Eutelsat, Facebook plan major African Wi-Fi rollout
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Research Bites: Factors influencing fintech adoption in Nigeria
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MTN SA towers sale receives major interest
- Paula Gilbert
Registration rules see Nigerian operators drop 12M subs
- Paula Gilbert
The state of mobile broadband affordability in Africa
- Paula Gilbert
MTN becomes first operator to list in Rwanda
- Paula Gilbert
Nigerian SIM registrations bite into MTN subs
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Hot startup of the month: Pan-African fintech KamaPay
This month's hot startup is pan-African fintech KamaPay, which helps individuals and businesses make cross-border payments on the continent.
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Afretec awards $3.3M in grants to African research teams
The African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec) has awarded grants worth $300,000 each to 11 university research teams across Africa to advance digital technologies.
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Kigali, Rwanda, Wednesday, May 17, 2023 - Liquid, Nokia partner on Kenya-SA fiber route
Johannesburg, Thursday, February 2, 2023 - Telkom SA to add MVNOs to network this year
Johannesburg, Friday, January 20, 2023
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Deep dive into East Africa's tech startup ecosystem
New survey reveals a lack of access to investors, reliance on international VCs and global recession trends as the biggest barriers for East African tech startups to access funds.
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Challenges and opportunities for women's tech careers
A new survey reveals that COVID-19, the cost-of-living crisis, skills shortages and a lack of mentorship have negatively affected women's career development over the past two years.
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Survey: Opportunities for Women in Tech
Take our new survey for women across Asia, Europe and Africa looking at the biggest challenges and opportunities for women-led enterprises and trends in tech careers for women.
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June 13-16, 2023Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE
Cybertech Africa 2023
August 1-2, 2023Kigali Convention Center, Kigali, Rwanda
Africa Tech Festival, Home of AfricaCom and AfricaTech
November 13-16, 2023CTICC, Cape Town
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Omdia View: February 2023
By Omdia AnalystsIn February 2023 key events in the Middle East and Africa included a major Internet project for Africa's underserved by Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Microsoft as well as a 5G launch in Tanzania – that and more in this month's Omdia View.
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Omdia View: July 2022
By Omdia AnalystsKenya and Zambia move towards 5G with new spectrum allocations while Tunisie Telecom plans to shut down its 3G network - that and more in this month's Omdia View.
