The 37 000km-long 2Africa cable will deliver more than the total combined capacity of all subsea cables serving Africa today.
The region’s struggle to bridge the mobile Internet usage gap continues, despite many people being covered by a mobile network.
The company says the company’s fibre infrastructure has been completed in several areas in the city.
Loon will help Vodacom provide service to un-served and under-served parts of the country with a network of floating cellphone towers.
The mobile operators have now reopened nearly all of their stores across South Africa under the level four lockdown conditions.
The company’s spend on 5G is still at its infancy and the mass rollout will take several years, says Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub.
Atria Convergence Technologies is the largest Internet service provider in south India.
The regulator looks to finalise the high-demand spectrum licensing process by auction this year as planned, despite COVID-19 restrictions.
The partnership allows SMMEs to deploy television white space networks through the CSIR’s spectrum management platform.
The mobile operator saw a steady increase in SA’s data traffic as the year ended March 2020 progressed, with 1.9 million more data customers.
Digging into two further WiFi 6 enhancements – target wake time and 1024 quadrature amplitude modulation.