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Namibia’s mobile market has a new entrant. Pan-African telecoms provider Paratus has launched a private mobile network in the country, built on LTE and 5G, completing its transformation from a connectivity provider into a full-service mobile operator.

The network runs on a new data centre Paratus built in Windhoek, Namibia, with power and cooling systems supplied by...


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South Africa has more than 118,000 unfilled digital and tech jobs, even as youth unemployment runs above 46%. South Korean electronics giant Samsung is betting that a new skills programme can help close that gap.

The company has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Durban University of Technology (DUT) to launch the Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), a trai...


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Satellite operator Starlink now delivers faster median download speeds than local internet providers in almost every African market where it operates, according to new data from internet-measurement firm Ookla.

The findings come from an analysis by Karim Yaici, an industry analyst at Ookla, drawing on Speedtest Intelligence measurements across 23 African markets in ...


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Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has standardised the power and cooling systems at its Parklands data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, using Vertiv infrastructure, and has commissioned a new data hall to add capacity for hyperscaler and artificial-intelligence workloads.

OADC, part of the WIOCC Group, said the move lets it deploy capacity faster and support high...


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Nearly half of Africa’s Wi-Fi users are still connecting over Wi-Fi 4, a standard first ratified in 2009, according to new data from Ookla.

Ookla, the network analytics company behind the Speedtest service, said in its Global State of Wi-Fi 2026 analysis that W...


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