Anywhere MTN is mentioned in Africa, the common link is actually telecommunications. However, closer probe into its activities would reveal an African company using telecommunications to expand footprints into other sectors of the economy.

For the love of securing internet users across the world, Symantec says it has signed a Memorandum of Association, MoU with the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, to use its security intelligence, in the form of its quarterly Internet Security Threat Reports, to increase understanding of cyber security risks.

Africa in general, has the lowest broadband penetration in the world. Mobile penetration stands at just over 40%. As Africa continues to develop at a rather brisk pace, bandwidth requirements for everything from broadcast to broadband are going to grow exponentially. Now the underlying demographics suggest strongly that long-term overcapacity predictions are overdone.

One of the most profound problems facing every individual in this nation right now, whether we we want to accept it or not, is security. Those of us who live in Jos and environs, in Borno and Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Abuja and in the Niger Delta probably know more about being secure than those in other parts of the country.

As the world marked the transition to Internet Protocol Version Six (IPv6) recently, the management of MainOne Cable Company has announced that its IP-NGN service is fully compliant with IPv4 and IPv6.