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posted in October 2022
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Malawi grants Starlink license to operate
  • Matshepo Sehloho
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has granted Elon Musk's satellite Internet service Starlink a license to operate.
Hot startup of the month: South Africa's iiDENTIFii
  • Matshepo Sehloho
This month's hot startup is South African-based digital identity startup iiDENTIFii, which has developed a remote biometric identity authentication app to stop identity theft.
Understanding the challenges of multi-cloud connectivity
  • Information Resources
As individual business functions increasingly drive adoption of cloud-based technology, enterprises today find themselves using multiple cloud providers as much by accident as by design. Public cloud provisioning is no longer the sole remit of the IT department, with organisations seeking a best-of-breed strategy from cloud-based services and making decisions at a departmental level.
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO NETWORK-AS-A-SERVICE IN 2022
  • Information Resources
With NaaS offerings now reaching a stage of maturity, CIOs finally have the opportunity to build a strong foundation for digital transformation, and achieve some basic cost and service improvement goals as well.


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Challenges and opportunities for women's tech careers

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Omdia View: February 2023

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In 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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Kenya 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.

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