F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Nokia and the Kenyan government team up to fund mobile startups
Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia has partnered with the government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board to work towards ensuring tech startups specialising in…
What’s wrong with Africa’s startup scene?
We were first introduced to Zimbabwean Munyuki Manatsa, when his online hip hop community mixdem, started trending on tech news aggregator, Hacker News. In…
Make cross border payments to Lesotho and Swaziland with FNB Pay2Cell
FNB’s Pay2Cell service is quite handy. Launched in September 2011, the service allows FNB Cellphone Banking customers to make payments directly into other FNB…
How high-speed internet access is changing Tanzania
The installation of underwater telecommunications cables beginning in 2009 and a US$200-million government backed rollout of 10 000km of national backbone, has seen the…
