M-Pesa accounted for 38.3% of Safaricom’s Revenue for the financial year 2021/2022
May 12, 2022
M-Pesa is no doubt one of the key services that helped Safaricom record billions in revenue over the years. M-Pesa has had a near-monopolistic existence with no real competition to slow down its growth. For…
Telkom Kenya Experiences countrywide Disruption Affecting Calls, SMS and Internet services
May 12, 2022
Telkom Kenya has been experiencing service disruptions affecting calls, SMS, internet among other services. The company is yet to issue any statement regarding this but I have not been able to use most of its…
Liquid partners with the PEACE Cable Company to bring 800Gbps subsea cable capacity in Kenya
By Brand Spot
May 11, 2022
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with PEACE Cable Company to introduce 800Gbps of additional subsea capacity in Mombasa on the highly-anticipated global submarine cable. This will increase the availability of high-performance and reliable Internet connectivity access across Africa, leveraging Liquid’s 100,000km of terrestrial fibre across 12 countries. While acting as a new global internet route between Asia, Europe and the USA, the additional capacity will help increase the proliferation of faster and more affordable internet, Cloud and cyber security services to the African people and businesses. Liquid Dataport (a division of Liquid Intelligent Technologies) CEO David Eurin said, “We are delighted to provide new subsea capacity between Mombasa, Karachi and Marseille, with extensions planned towards Singapore and Asia. This creates a cost-effective, low-latency and diverse route that our customers can leverage to serve their business-critical connectivity needs. The submarine cable will be ready in 2022.” Liquid already has access to many subsea cables around Africa like Equiano, WACS, SAT3/SAFE, EASSy, TEAMS, SEACOM and later 2Africa. With the new PEACE cable, the continent will benefit from much-needed additional capacity from the East Coast of Africa to Europe. Additionally, it will add diversity to an important route, allowing for improved redundancy and low latency (102ms between Mombasa and Marseille). “We see around a 40-50% growth in internet traffic every year, so we invest massively in subsea cables to provide the best Internet experience across all countries in Africa,” explained Eurin. “We have been working closely with PEACE to extend the subsea capacity to more landlocked countries (including Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Burundi and the north-east of DRC). This is critical for our customers to leverage higher bandwidth, and it is expected to make the internet faster and more affordable in the region”. Liquid’s 100,000 km terrestrial fibre backbone was a major point of interest in the partnership with PEACE. Through its extensive network, Liquid will extend this new capacity to many destinations, including access to other subsea cable landing stations, such as Luanda in Angola, Muanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Pointe Noire in Congo. This has led to the first protected, reliable, and high-capacity route between the two coasts of the continent, enabling a new global internet route between Asia and the USA (via Africa). “Connecting Africa to the rest of the world and unleashing its young and dynamic workforce potential may be the key to catapulting Africa’s international trade and economies to a whole new level. The PEACE deal is another crucial step on that journey,” concluded Eurin. Read: Telkom and PEACE Cable Company land a new submarine cable in Kenya
Infinix is Working on a Note 12 Variant with 120W Fast charging support and a 108MP Camera
May 11, 2022
Infinix recently unveiled the successor to the Note 11 series, the Infinix Note 12, to the world. This is not the only smartphone the company has been working on though as there is another Note…
Zoho unveils a unified platform driving business growth and improved customer experience
By Brand Spot
May 11, 2022
Zoho Corporation has announced Zoho Marketing Plus, a unified platform that brings together marketing activities across campaign ideation, creation, execution, management, and measurement, providing stakeholders across the entire marketing organisation with a single, shared view…
ROAM Jobs Rebrands to Become The African Talent Company
By Brand Spot
May 10, 2022
ROAM Jobs has today officially announced its rebranding to become The African Talent Company. You may have not heard about ROAM jobs but you definitely have heard about some of the brands in its portfolio…
NEAR Foundation Partners With Sankore to launch a New regional blockchain innovation hub
By Brand Spot
May 10, 2022
NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit that oversees the governance and development of the NEAR protocol, today announced it has partnered with local blockchain community Sankore to launch a regional hub in Kenya dedicated to ongoing blockchain…
Xiaomi Launches the Redmi 10A In Kenya for Ksh 12,899
May 9, 2022
Xiaomi has today officially announced the availability of its latest entry-level smartphone, the Redmi 10A, in Kenya. The Redmi 10A is available in retail stores across Kenya starting from Ksh 12,899. This makes it one…
The Huawei nova 9 SE has officially been launched in Kenya
May 9, 2022
Huawei has officially unveiled the nova 9 SE smartphone in the Kenyan market. You can get the Huawei nova 9 SE in Kenya for Ksh 39,999 which puts its right around where the OPPO Reno…