Om Malik at GigaOm writes:
According to TeleGeography, a research firm that tracks the global broadband business, there are about 12 cables either in planning stages or under construction that will connect Africa to the rest of the planet. Those connections will have a theoretical capacity of over 13 Terabits per second, and construction is estimated to cost more than $3 billion...Building new...
Nigeria,hot bed for mobile banking?
SAGE 2008 world cup won by Nigerian team.
Umbele, A variation of the Kiva model?
Acits exits Nigerian telecoms...
Image via WikipediaSean Park at the Park Paradigm writes:One of the most obvious - yet no less powerful or potentially transformational for it - themes is the combination of mobile communications, internet and geo-location technologies to disseminate information and increase connectedness from the bottom up. This emergent collective intelligence is all the more remarkable, given the typical...
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"...Emperion designs, deploys, operates and maintains broadband IP communication solutions and services based on digital satellite (VSAT) and fixed wireless access (FWA) networks. The solutions are targeted at enterprise class customers and are deployed to a rapidly growing client portfolio in more than 30 countries in Europe , Middle East and Africa (EMEA)..." The company "...has focused on...
DirectOnPc a provider of Internet/Intranet solutions has launched a pioneering wireless broadband service in Lagos,Nigeria.Their non- line-of-site WIMAX service:
Features Navini's Ripwave MX platform that is designed for seamless evolution to 802.16e mobile WiMAX with Navini's Smart WiMAX solution. Smart WiMAX combines the smart Beamforming technology currently in commercial service around the...
Edgenet a communications company "...provides residential and business Internet and network solutions comprising both connectivity and software services that run on top of it..."Its offerings include:
-Internet services
-Software solutions...