Smart Utilities

A major new initiative has been launched by Vodafone Group Plc and ITU, the United Nations’ specialised agency for information and communication technologies, to address the global digital divide, with

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global transaction value of digital bill payment and presentment will exceed $2 trillion (€1.71 trillion) by the end of 2021, from $1.9

M-Pesa has reached 50 million monthly active customers, claims to cementing its position as Africa’s largest fintech platform. Launched more than 14 years ago in Kenya, M-Pesa is available in

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Vivo, for the first time ever, is the top 5G smartphone vendor in Asia Pacific in Q2 2021. Three of the Top-5 5G smartphone vendors

Prysmian Group, provider of the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announced it is investing $85 million in major equipment and technology upgrades at plants in North America, enabling the

By 2025, there will be 1.2 billion 5G connections worldwide. To keep up with the complexity and volume of 5G connections, bare metal and cloud platform infrastructures need to be

RAD, the provider of secure Industrial IoT (IIoT) backhaul and edge computing solutions, announced that it was selected by Israel’s Ministry of Communications and the Israel Innovation Authority for a

A new study by Juniper Research has found that 5G-compatible smartphones will account for over 50% of smartphone sales revenue by 2025; rising to $337 billion (€285.80 billion) from $108 billion (€91.59

 To enable more Africans to take advantage of digital offerings in a new world defined by the Covid-19 pandemic, West Africa’s solar-based internet and voice service provider, Tizeti, has launched

 The worldwide residential broadband market reached a subscriber’s base of over 1.1 billion in 2020, a 4% increase from the previous year. Not surprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for broadband