Alphabet’s Loon and mobile operator company Vodacom have signed an agreement to use Loon’s balloon-powered Internet solution to expand Mozambiques Vodacom network
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Vodacom South Africa service revenue grew by 2.3 per cent
Service revenue for Vodacom South Africa increased by 2.3 per cent over the year, supported by an increase in data elasticity and usage following out-of-bundle rate cuts and the implementation of the End-User Subscriber Services Charter (EUSSC)
Airtel selects IBM and Red Hat to build open hybrid cloud network
Telecom company Airtel has selected IBM and software company Red Hat to build its new telco network cloud
Telkom Kenya to power Afya Rekod COVID-19 monitoring platform
Telecom company Telkom will power health tech company Afya Rekod’s health management platform, which will facilitate COVID-19 monitoring and analysis
Mobile subscribers up in Nigeria
Mobile subscribers in Nigeria moved up to 187.15mn in February 2020, an eight per cent growth from the 173.28mn users in February 2019, according to the monthly report from the Nigerian Communications Commission