Author: Akin Naphtal

Ugandans are currently experiencing exceptionally high-speed internet access like never before. This development is made possible by MTN Uganda, a prominent African telecommunication company that recently launched the country’s inaugural 5G internet connection. MTN Uganda’s journey towards 5G began in 2020 when it embarked on a Proof of Concept with its partners to assess the service’s potential. Following this, it entered a strategic five-year alliance with Huawei, China’s tech giant, to execute a broad modernization project for a 5G-ready core network. Subsequently, in May 2023, it launched the first 5G use case for industries in Uganda. To actualize 5G, MTN…

Vodacom South Africa’s Managing Director, Sitho Mdlalose, has expressed apprehensions regarding the surging input expenses in the telecommunications industry, which are surpassing the inflation rate. Mdlalose emphasized that despite Vodacom implementing price increases below the inflation level, the costs related to serving customers are escalating. This circumstance might compel Vodacom to transfer the augmented expenses to consumers, as it has already done with certain price modifications earlier this year. Mdlalose highlighted that the cost of generating 1GB of data has been rising due to investments aimed at mitigating the impact of load shedding and other contributing factors. Despite endeavors to…

Capgemini, a global technology company, has introduced a comprehensive generative AI portfolio of services to strategize, develop, and implement AI technology at scale. During the recent earnings announcement, Capgemini Group’s CEO, Aiman Ezzat, disclosed an impressive €2 billion investment in artificial intelligence to establish leadership in this breakthrough technology. They also plan to double their data and AI teams to 60,000 within three years. Capgemini is actively developing industry-specific offers and forming strategic partnerships with Google Cloud and Microsoft. They are training most of their workforce through the Data & AI Campus to fully leverage generative AI’s power in their…

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company has announced that Sumitomo Corporation, a leading trading and investment conglomerate that operates 900 companies in 66 countries, is using AWS to power its digital transformation. As part of the multiyear initiative, Sumitomo Corporation will migrate its SAP environments to AWS and use a platform built on the world’s leading cloud provider to make data-driven business decisions, automate processes, and respond quickly to customer needs. Sumitomo Corporation will use RISE with SAP on AWS, a fully managed offering that combines SAP’s solution and implementation experience with AWS’s experience in helping customers…

The leading Internet provider of Azerbaijan, CityNet has made the Internet connection of its individual and corporate clients faster and higher quality, according to a reports, citing the company. The company for the first time in Azerbaijan has created the necessary infrastructure for the implementation of XGPON technology. CityNet services users will benefit from the fast Internet connection at up to 10 Gbps speed thanks to XGPON. Customers will be able to enjoy video calls, online movies, games, and other features using uninterrupted and high-quality Internet. READ ALSO: TELUS strengthens its cybersecurity portfolio as Norton’s exclusive breach response provider in…

Bloom, a zero-commission stock investing tool for teenage investors, reached 1 million downloads after launching in February 2022. The startup founded by Allan Maman and Sam Yang provides a brokerage account and teaches those aged 13 and older how to build wealth through interactive lessons on investing, stocks and finance. So far, users have taken over 10 million lessons, Maman said. If Maman’s name looks familiar, that is because he is credited with making a better version of the fidget spinner that helped the devices go viral. Yang, who took Bloom through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch, previously…

TELUS has announced that it will be the official Canadian breach response provider for Norton1, a leading consumer cyber safety brand of Gen™, delivering support to employees and customers of organizations affected by data breaches. This marks an expansion of the incident response services offered by TELUS, providing businesses with a diverse range of solutions to help minimize the impacts of a data breach. As cybercrime rates rise and the demand for solutions increases, TELUS Online Security goes beyond standalone identity monitoring services in the market by helping businesses offer their employees and customers breach response and remediation plans that…

Opera has announced that its native browser generative AI tool, Aria, has passed one million users since launch. The company launched the AI tool in May and made it available to all Android users by the end of June. The company says, Aria does not rely on a homegrown language model, instead, Opera teamed up with OpenAI to leverage GPT technology. If you have not been keeping up with developments, GPT is the model used by ChatGPT and is largely seen as the language model that kicked off the generative AI revolution. Commenting on Aria’s adoption, Opera co-CEO Lin Song…

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel is looking to garner a major share in enterprise communication services segment of small and medium businesses with its new Airtel IQ Reach platform, a senior company official was quoted recently. Airtel’s communications platform as a service (CPaas) Airtel IQ Reach will enable small and medium businesses to engage with target customers with prepaid pay-as-you-go plans. According to the company’s Business, Head – Digital Products & Services, Abhishek Biswal, said; ”About 20-25 per cent of target message market is small and medium businesses for promotion. That is the market which we would like to go after…

Sparkle has signed an agreement with Genoa Data Internet eXchange (Ge-DIX), a non-profit consortium of interconnection services, to establish an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) at Sparkle’s Genoa Digital Hub data centre. Ge-DIX was founded by the Municipality of Genoa and Liguria Digitale in a partnership with Piedmont-based Internet Exchange, TOP-IX and TLC companies BBBell, Fastweb, Retelit Irideos and Rocket Way. Its aim is to become a preferred data traffic exchange for Internet service providers. Through a physical network access point, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who land their Internet networks in Genoa can interconnect directly with each other and exchange traffic…