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January – February 2019

News review

• Mara’s “made-in-Africa” smartphone
• African firms constantly facing ‘countdown to no’
• ‘Mowali’ to help scale up mobile financial services
• AIMS welcomes applications for AMMI
• Hellas Sat 4 to cover southern Africa
• Vodacom and Facebook form new partnership
• ‘Smeature’ phones to address affordability issues
• Angola Cables and Broadband Infraco team up

Wireless users

• A network originally introduced for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is now saving lives and detecting criminals.

Wireless business

• African telecoms giants choose Hughes JUPITER service.

Wireless solutions

• Siklu promises longest reach and highest gain with new point-to-point radio.

Features

• SIMs – What does the future hold for the SIM card? RAHIEL NASIR asked the experts.
• Industry view – Virtualisation will help drive Africa’s journey towards the 5G era, as LUX MAHARAJ explains.

World news

• Helios Towers infrastructure upgrade
• LTE ESN to be launched in phases
• Telecom Egypt doubles backbone network capacity
• Mobile money worth trillions in Kenya
• Bharti Airtel and Telekom Kenya join forces

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