Fibre key to African connectivity

Kathy Gibson at SatCom, Sandton – Terrestrial and metro fibre will ultimately be the key solution to letting more consumers access bandwidth. To accomplish this, there are a number of investment models that can be followed – all of them presenting both...

Consumers don’t benefit from lower costs

Kathy Gibson at SatCom, Sandton – Reduced connectivity costs are not being passed on to consumers in Africa. This is the word from Eric Osiakwan, director of the West Africa Backhaul Company (WABco), speaking at this morning’s SatCom conference in Sandton. One...

Healthcare providers eye the cloud

Cloud computing technologies are transforming industries around the world, and healthcare is no different. Although subject to a different set of regulatory issues and data privacy concerns, cloud solutions are on the rise in the healthcare industry, with a recent...