Rural and remote areas present unique business visibility challenges that can be overcome using relevant and innovative satellite technologies

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) views geospatial technology as a significant component that will help push Africa’s transformative development agenda even further, said Oliver Chinganya, director of the Commission’s African Centre for Statistics (ACS)

The global market for IoT-focused satellite services, focused on end-device connectivity hardware and the annual connectivity fees charged, will grow to US$5.9bn in 2025, after taking off in the 2021-2022 period, according to Rethink Technology Research

Inmarsat, global mobile satellite communications provider, has joined forces with RESOLVE, the Washington DC-based non-profit environmental and health organisation, to develop a satellite-enabled solution to safeguard endangered wildlife across Africa

Internet of things (IoT) solutions will be primarily driven by the manufacturing, process manufacturing and transportation industries, accounting for nearly a third of total worldwide spend by 2023, according to IDC’s IoT spending guide