The East African Communications Organisation (EACO) and the Smart Africa Secretariat have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen strategic collaboration in advancing the digital transformation and accelerating the realisation of a single digital market in Africa by 2030.
This week will see Tunisian plans to make mobile IDs mandatory for investment project declarations come into force.
The approval, early last week, of the installation of Google’s underwater cable linking Chile to Asia-Pacific means the Humboldt Cable, as it is known, is on track to be installed in the last quarter of 2026 and become operational in 2028.
Given that Digital Transformation World tends to focus more on the software side, it will be of minimal surprise that AI dominated the majority of the presentations and discussions at the show.
Kenya’s Court of Appeal has lifted an injunction blocking the government’s planned sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom to South Africa’s Vodacom, reviving a transaction valued at KES204.3 billion (US$1.6 billion), reported to Bloomberg.
Cambodian telco Cellcard (a.k.a. CamGSM) announced a strategic partnership on Saturday with auto manufacturer ZDG to launch a new connected electric vehicle from Chinese auto maker Lynk & Co.
Ukrainian telco Kyivstar announced on Friday it has signed an MoU with the country’s Ministry of Economy to establish a sovereign AI-ready data centre in Ukraine.
Tencent Cloud announced on Friday that Indonesian telco XLSmart has completed a large-scale migration of its operations to Tencent’s public cloud platform as part of its long-term digital modernization strategy.
China Mobile, the GSMA, Huawei and other partners have officially launched “OpenAN”, an open-source project that aims to enable collaboration and interoperability between O&M agents in autonomous networks, allowing them to evolve to Level 4 autonomy.
These days you could be excused by suspecting that the world has gone AI-mad, and if you were at the NANOG 97 meeting your suspicions would've only been confirmed! The topics discussed the design of the data centres used to generate the large language models that underpin today's AI tools and the application of AI tools in network operations.