and CIO, Kasada, David Damiba said; “This innovative partnership with IFC is the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa IFC And Proparco To Finance Kasada’s First Acquisition By Ron Chen, Correspondent ASEAN Region Kasada has secured a strategic partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to create a large...

…As Danbatta Receives Commendation On Nation’s Digital Transformation By Angeline Mgbele, Correspondent Abuja Telecommunications regulatory body, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has restated its commitment to continue to strengthen collaboration with judicial institutions in Nigeria  in order to further protect telecoms infrastructure in the country. A statement inked by the...

By Emmanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK July 21, 2021, mobile operators and government institutions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have joined forces with the global mobile association, the GSMA, to advance the nation’s digital transformation with the launch of “We Care” in DRC. The We Care in DRC initiative...

By Jonathan Easton US movie rental service Redbox has announced an expansion of its Free Live TV streaming service. While the company is historically associated with DVD rental booths housed in US supermarkets, Redbox has built up the Free Live TV streaming service to 100 channels of programming available online...

By Catherine Sbeglia Last week, AT&T and Google announced an expansion to a 5G and edge collaboration, initiated March 2020, that involved new solutions across AT&T’s 5G and Google Cloud’s edge computing portfolio, including AT&T’s on-premises Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) solution, as well as AT&T Network Edge capabilities through LTE,...

Verizon Business on Tuesday signed a deal with Mastercard Inc to use 5G and wireless technology for contactless payments and provide an autonomous checkout service for retail stores. Telecoms operators such as Verizon are seeking to expand into new businesses ranging from robotics to fintech companies that they think will...

 By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu, Correspondent Lagos Africa’s leading streaming platform, Boomplay and leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria,  have signed announced a strategic partnership that will offer see subscribers get access to more  affordable streaming on Boomplay. The Airtel-Boomplay partnership rides on the Airtel Streaming Data Plan and plan will...

By Stuart Thomson ViacomCBS streaming outfit Paramount+ has teamed up with Latin American and Caribbean cable and mobile service provider Millicom, which operates under the Tigo brand, to take its premium content to its cable subscribers in Costa Rica, Honduras and Bolivia. Tigo customers, including subscribers to its One tv...

AT&T executive Vinay Kundaje explained the operator tapped Microsoft and Google cloud services to boost a move to offer new edge compute capabilities to enterprise customers, with the dual-provider strategy offering flexibility in deployment. The assistant VP of market development at AT&T Business explained the operator aims to tailor cloud...

The Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA), Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd. (NigComSat) and Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), are working together to accelerate the development of additional satellite services provided by ASECNA's A-SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) for Africa and...