Minister of communication Ghana receives S4 from samsung offical Samsung Electronics announced today the fourth generation GALAXY S, the GALAXY S4, designed to get you closer to what matters in life and bring your world together. Understanding what matters most to us in our lives, Samsung GALAXY S4 was developed to redefine the way we live and to maximise our fulfilment of life. This sleek and innovative smartphone makes every moment of ... [Read more]
John Hoffman,CEO, GSMA A mobile industry trade association has called for governments and regulators to reassess their approach to Universal Service Fund (USF) levies. In a new report issued today, the GSMA concludes that most funds are not succeeding in delivering their stated goal of widening access to telecommunication services and that alternative market-based solutions are more effective. The report estimates that more than ... [Read more]
Open Innovation will characterize the growth of the ICT Business Enterprise Business Manager of Dell, Mr. Akin Banuso has said that the rise of open standards, frameworks and architectures, and a shift from proprietary models will give way to new solutions with regards to networking in the Nigerian business landscape. He made this known as he highlighted three networking paradigms that are shaping the business landscape across the world ... [Read more]
From surfing online to downloading apps, shopping and making payments from their mobile device, Norton found that nearly nine out of ten online adults (87%) in the Middle East and Africa are mobile device users, of which large majority (78%) are using them to access the Internet. Norton by Symantec has released new insights into Middle East and African consumers’ mobile use and behaviours, revealing that adults rely on their mobile devices ... [Read more]
Graham Mansfield Oracle, cloud computing company educates on the Approaches to Succeed In Customer Experience. The event which featured different lectures from different specialist in the field. Customer Experience is the sum of all interaction and experience a customer has with a supplier of goods or services, over the duration of their business together. Oracle’s customer experience solutions help companies and organisations ... [Read more]
huawei In November 2008, Parliament approved a $30 million concessionary loan facility that has been extended to the government of Ghana by the government of China for the construction of the initial phase of a nationwide e-Government infrastructure for Ghana. The proposed infrastructure would extend the national backbone infrastructure to all districts in the country and provide a national data centre and a secondary data centre facility ... [Read more]
Fiber Drives Global Broadband Access Forward As broadband subscribers approach 635 million globally, the latest figures published by the Broadband Forum and prepared by broadband industry analysts Point Topic reveal that hybrid fiber access (FTTx) has experienced the highest market gain over the past year. Of the 54 million new broadband subscribers added in the year leading up to 3Q 2012, 26 million are being served with fiber (48%). ... [Read more]
By Dale Kyle, President, Handheld US Dale-Kyle_President-and-CEO_HHCS-Handheld-USA-Inc It is a great time to be a technician using technology. Work done in the field is getting easier, more efficient and more accurate as the tools we use get smaller, faster and more precise. And we can perform new functions in ways we might not have imagined five years ago. Asset tracking, inventory and cloud computing are three of the strongest ... [Read more]
David King, CEO, Flexenclosure Telecom and tech companies could, and will, make billions by serving the ‘Next Billion’ customers in the developing world. However, new strategies are needed to reach this attractive market in an economically viable way. To begin with, mobile operators must adopt green cost-saving power solutions for their networks. All indications show that they are in fact doing this right now, with major implications for ... [Read more]
Dan Kelly, Tellabs CEO and president. Operators are investing in radio network upgrades and migrating to LTE to meet surging user demand for mobile data. But a report unveiled today predicts that operators will face a new mobile capacity crunch by 2017. The Strategy Analytics study reveals that operators may not be planning sufficient investment in backhaul to meet anticipated demand over the next 5 years. Global mobile data traffic ... [Read more]
David Vap, group vice president, Oracle. Oracle, cloud computing company releases highlights on Need for New Approaches to Succeed In Customer Experience Oracle has announced the results of its “Global Insights on Succeeding in the Customer Experience Era” report. This global survey of 1,342 senior-level executives from 18 countries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America yields new insights on the challenges, ... [Read more]
Mobile Broadband Subscriptions Near 700 Million in the OECD The OECD has released an update on broadband penetration rates as of June 2012. It finds that mobile broadband subscriptions have reached nearly 700 million in OECD countries. Switzerland and Korea continue to top the OECD ranking for fixed and wireless broadband. Mobile broadband has experienced healthy growth (18%) in the last 12 months, largely driven by continuing strong ... [Read more]
By Erhumu Bayagbon When Airtel Nigeria threw its doors open for business in Abuja on November 19, 2010, Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder/Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Airtel told political leaders and captains of industries who were present at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, venue of the brand launch that the company was committed to building an innovative network that would be the most loved in the daily lives of Nigerians. This ... [Read more]
