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Post Archive for June 2014

Online Africa Weekly Top 10: SMS ban for CAR, cross-network mobile money in Tanzania, Egyptian social media monitoring, and more
June 6, 2014 ♦ Comments Off on Online Africa Weekly Top 10: SMS ban for CAR, cross-network mobile money in Tanzania, Egyptian social media monitoring, and more
Online Africa Weekly Top 10: SMS ban for CAR, cross-network mobile money in Tanzania, Egyptian social media monitoring, and more

Our top 10 stories from the past week feature a SMS ban in Central African Republic, annual doubling of SSA’s mobile data usage, Google’s plan to deliver satellite-based Internet, and more.

Volo to provide ISPs with a significantly less expensive way to deliver high-speed broadband Internet access
June 5, 2014 ♦ One Comment
Volo to provide ISPs with a significantly less expensive way to deliver high-speed broadband Internet access

Volo offers a cloud-based automation platform for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deploy fixed wireless broadband services using radically low-cost last-mile Wi-Fi networking technologies.

These days, African Internet users need to worry about privacy and not just access
June 4, 2014 ♦ Comments Off on These days, African Internet users need to worry about privacy and not just access
These days, African Internet users need to worry about privacy and not just access

African examples of Internet governance as discussed at Stockholm Internet Forum 2014.

SSA mobile data traffic projected to grow 20x by 2020, 75% of mobile subscriptions to be 3G/4G
June 3, 2014 ♦ Comments Off on SSA mobile data traffic projected to grow 20x by 2020, 75% of mobile subscriptions to be 3G/4G
SSA mobile data traffic projected to grow 20x by 2020, 75% of mobile subscriptions to be 3G/4G

Ericsson aggressively projects that, by 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa will see 75% of mobile subscriptions as WCDMA/HSPA/LTE (3G or 4G).