Vodacom and MTN are among six operators backing a $40 smartphone pilot to boost connectivity across Africa.
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Eskom CTIO Len de Villiers has told Mobile World Congress that AI deployments must produce a return on investment.
IT leaders are struggling to keep pace as AI rapidly reshapes the technology landscape, according to IDC.
The high price of smartphones in Africa, often the result of high taxes, is undermining the continent’s digitisation.
Telecommunications industry bosses toasted the return of Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress on Monday with an agenda to put the industry at the centre of digital development.
Next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is shaping up as an early test of how quickly the global business events industry will bounce back from the pandemic.
Mobile World Congress organisers unveiled a health and safety plan on Monday that they said would enable the gathering to go ahead in Barcelona after last year’s event was called off.
Mobile World Congress, a series of events organised around the world by the mobile industry association the GSMA, is coming to Africa for the first time next year.
The organisers of the Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry’s biggest annual gathering, are postponing next year’s event to late June to make it possible to convene safely despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
The mobile industry’s trade body is cutting about a fifth of its workforce after being forced to cancel a conference that generated most of its revenue, according to a person familiar with the plan.