Author: Paul Adepoju

A new report from Juniper Research has revealed that the number of VoLTE (Voice over LTE) subscribers will rise from 488 million in 2016 to 3 billion in 2021, as operators reap the benefits from widespread 4G infrastructure roll-outs. There are now 165 operators in 73 countries investing in VoLTE,…

A new chairman has been named for Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the person is Dr Joseph Nnanna who will be taking over from Dr Sarah Alade who is stepping down from the position with effect from today. AFC is a pan-African multilateral development finance institution and project developer. It said Dr Sarah…

An analysis of the report of porting activities in February released by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) revealed that more subscribers left Globacom than other networks. The report also showed that  porting activities increased by 2,321 in February. The report entitled Incoming and Outgoing Porting Activities of Mobile Network Operators for…

In what is seen as an understandable aggressive push to increase its advertising business, Twitter is reportedly planning to start adding ads in front of Periscope videos. The company today said it would start monetizing its 2-year-old live streaming service, beginning with pre-roll video on both live and archived videos. The…

Latest figures compiled by International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that Africa’s smartphone revolution is showing signs of a slowdown. According to IDC, Africa’s smartphone market totaled 95.37 million units in 2016. And while this is up 3.4% year-on-year, it represents a considerable deceleration from the double-digit growth rates seen in…

Although they are competitors in the global tech market, competition is not preventing LG and Samsung from doing business together as evident in yesterday’s revelation of a deal negotiation between both parties on the supply of 700,000 liquid crystal display (LCD) panel for televisions by LG Display Co.  to Samsung…

Nigeria’s communications minister, Bayo Shittu, has revealed that only 0.9% of Nigerians are insurance policyholders. This according to him is the reason why the insurance sector should latch on ICT as panacea for harnessing and deepening insurance penetration in Nigeria. Shittu said this in Lagos while delivering a keynote address titled,…

Payment giant MasterCard is offering its support to Ghana’s vision for a cashless economy as captured in Ghana’s Vision 2020 goals. To this effect, MasterCard said it wants to help Ghana to develop a cashless economy, in furtherance of its push to be an economic powerhouse in Africa.The company made this known…

Nigerian government’s plan to establish an ICT University has been commended by the Senate Committee on ICT & Cybercrime. The committee also commended Adebayo Shittu, Nigeria’s minister of Communications, for the initiative. According to the lawmakers, the ICT University will be the first of its kind in Africa. In a press statement by the…

CaseWare Africa has announced the launch of an innovative software suite that automates the entire financial reporting process for public entities. George Pinto, Research and Development Product Manager at CaseWare Africa, says that the suite of products is designed to help Kenyan public entities comply with the International Public Sector…

Tech giant Google today announced it is making it possible for Google Maps users to share trips and real-time location on both Android and iOS. “On both Android and iOS, you’ll be able to share your real-time location with anyone. And the people you share with will be able to see…

At a launch event in New Delhi, Qualcomm Incorporated yesterday announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., introduced the Qualcomm® 205 Mobile Platform, designed to bring 4G LTE connectivity and 4G services to entry-level feature phones. The Qualcomm 205 Mobile Platform includes the Qualcomm 205 SoC, which encompasses the baseband…

On 15 March, UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, co-chaired the Working Group on the Digital Gender Divide, with the Chief Executive Officer of GSMA, Mr Mats Granryd. The event was held within the framework of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Digital Development in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. The Working…

TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, today announced that it has been working with the GSMA to ensure TerraPay compatibility with the recently rolled out standardized mobile money APIs. TerraPay will provide support by providing a staging environment for the new GSMA Mobile Money API Developer portal that will enable…

Major international digital payment solutions company, Mastercard, has been unveiled as the headline sponsor of the 6th Edition of the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo. Annually organised by  Mobile Money Africa, this year’s edition will hold next week in Nigeria’s commercial capital city of Lagos from 22 to 23 March 2017. In a…

Alibaba-backed real estate-focused AR/VR company iStaging has released a comprehensive mobile-first solution for real estate agents to showcase properties in virtual reality. The product suite features a user-friendly 360-degree VR camera app as well as a cloud platform to upload and edit VR tours at an affordable price point. A…

A partnership involving the Nigerian federal health ministry,  Groupe Speciale Mobile Association, (GSMA), and telecoms operators, has resulted in the berth of a programme that seeks to tackle malnutrition in Nigeria. By collaborating with its partners, Nigerian government has made it possible to use mobile phonesto tackle malnutrition in Nigeria. At…

At the recently held Google Next ’17, the company made 100 announcements and here they are as presented by Google. 1. Kaggle – Kaggle is one of the world’s largest communities of data scientists and machine learning enthusiasts. Kaggle and Google Cloud will continue to support machine learning training and deployment services…

The decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) prevented 13 Nigerian banks from taking over the operations of Etisalat Nigeria following the company’s default in the refinancing of its $1.2 billion loan. According to report, the operator borrowed the sum in 2013 to…

Tech giant Google yesterday announced it has acquired AppBridge in a move that it said would make it easier to migrate to the cloud. AppBridge is an enterprise-grade, G Suite migration tool that helps organizations seamlessly migrate from their on-prem, cloud-based and hybrid solutions to Google Drive. “It’s not just your files…