Africa Telecoms Magazine - March 2011
FIBER IS NOT THE END OF SATELLITE BACKHAUL IN AFRICA Africa is finally getting connected to the rest of the world and the majority of the credit seems to be going to the different submarine cables that have landed on the coastline of Africa and will land there over the…
More than Mobile Qualcomm, one of the communications industry’s foremost technology providers, gives its forecast for the future. A future that will be about more than just faster phones, Christo van Gemert explains, thanks to the company’s lineup of powerful and multifunctional mobile chipsets, designed to fulfil its vision of…
In just ten years, Africa has gone from almost relying almost solely on satellite connections to the rest of the world, to a blooming ecosystem of undersea cables that are changing the way almost everything is done. When the SAT-3/SAFE cables came online, in 2001, their design capacity of 120Gbit/s and 130Gbit/s was projected to be more than enough…
Shortly before the long-serving CEO of South Africa’s largest cellular operator retired, he declared that the industry would have fared much better without a telecoms regulator. Outspoken Alan Knott-Craig said the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) would have served the sector better by staying at home rather than going…
This Issue of Africa Telecoms is focusing on Backhaul as a subsector of the Telecoms Market in Africa. What do you think the most challenging area is for Mobile Operators in Africa when it comes to Backhaul? Mobile operators in Africa are facing the same issues as network operators in…
As the world watched, the disillusioned, disaffacted and unhappy people of Egypt protested against the long reigning despot Hosni Mubarak and in the process, brought Egypt to a standstill. What began as another hopeful attempt at change, snowballed in the desert sands into a full blown uprising. The pattern has…
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