IBM invests R700m in Jo’burg lab

IBM today unveiled plans to invest R700-million over the next 10 years in an expansion of IBM Research – Africa with a new laboratory in Johannesburg. The announcement was made this morning by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor and Dr John Kelly, senior...

Rwanda signs up for mobile broadband

The Rwandan Ministry of Youth and ICT and the GSMA today announced an agreement to undertake a series of initiatives to increase citizens’ access to mobile broadband technologies across the country. This landmark development takes place in the lead-up to the GSMA’s...

What’s driving mobile data growth?

Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2015, to be held from 2 to 5 March in Barcelona, Jessica Ekholm, research director at Gartner, shares her thoughts on what is driving the growth in mobile data traffic, and how communications service providers (CSPs) and mobile app...