Huawei has launched a British advertising blitz to highlight its role in building the country’s broadband and mobile networks ahead of a UK security review that could see further restrictions on its activities.
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Long-serving Internet Solutions executive Sean Nourse has been appointed as the new CEO of Internet service provider Webafrica following the departure of Tim Wyatt-Gunning.
Amazon.com is in early-stage talks to buy a stake worth at least $2-billion in Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter.
Huawei Technologies acted to cover up its relationship with a firm that had tried to sell prohibited US computer gear to Iran, newly obtained internal Huawei documents show.
Continuing to allow Huawei equipment to be used in the UK’s 5G networks would create “some tensions” in the US’s ability to share sensitive intelligence, an American senator has warned.
Vodacom has zero-rated access to What3words, the technology service that’s mapped the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, in an effort to make it easier for people to get access to emergency services.
Huawei has asked Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix for a stable memory chip supply despite apparently mounting pressure from the US to isolate the Chinese telecommunications company.
MTN South Africa has introduced new prepaid data bundles offering 1GB of data valid for the day of purchase for R29.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to reduce Huawei’s involvement in Britain’s 5G network in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.
Icasa is moving to speed up the allocation of “digital dividend” spectrum in South Africa currently used by television broadcasters in a move that could mean better and cheaper broadband is delivered sooner.