NEWS
Action achieves results at AfricaCom
Close to 14,000 people
attended this year’s
AfricaCom event
One of the elements in preventing Africa’s rapid progression is a
critical lack of appropriate skills. The importance of this was reflected
in the number of E-Learning solutions and deployments on display in
the Connectivity Hall and the Technology Arena.
As pointed out by several speakers, the Fourth Industrial Revolution
is now not so much about the technology itself but how to use it to
enable advancement.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will have a transformative impact on
both African business and African society. And this year’s IoT World
Africa proved it by providing a platform for the burgeoning IoT
ecosystem to get together and share their expertise, industry insights
and transformation stories.
Also disrupting and changing the status quo is the increasing
prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AfricaCom 2018 played
host to the first staging of the AI World Summit in Cape Town.
T
estament to the growing influence and importance of the entire
digital ecosystem on everyday life, the 21st edition of AfricaCom
attracted close to 14,000 record-breaking attendees at the CTICC in
South Africa, with the most diverse and informed, audience ever.
“The buzz around the entire AfricaCom precinct was tangible, as
those attending and participating in shaping Africa’s digital future
appear to agree the time has now come for less talk and more action
in order to get things done,” said Tom Cuthell, Event Director at
KNect365, organiser of AfricaCom.
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RCS-Communication launches new
Ka-Band service in South Sudan
R
CS-Communication, a leading ISP in
South Sudan, has established the first
site for Avanti’s HYLAS 4 high-speed satellite
broadband service in the country. Following
successful beam testing in Juba, the new
Ka-Band service with high throughput speeds
of up to 35Mbps download and 4Mbps upload
is now available to RCS-Communication’s
customers. RCS-Communication partnered
with iWayAfrica, an Avanti Master Distributor,
to bring the service to South Sudan.
“We have a long-standing relationship of
almost 10 years with iWayAfrica for the
provision of high throughput volume capped
VSAT services and are pleased to extend this
to the new HYLAS 4 service that offers much
improved speeds,” said Flippie Odendal,
Managing Director, RCS-Communication.
“RCS is always on the lookout for suitable
technology and services that increases
options to our clients and enhances their
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user experience. We focus on the enterprise
and SME market, and with the HYLAS 4
broadband service, we see SME clients
across South Sudan benefiting from high
speeds and a selection of volume options at
affordable rates.”
Michèle Scanlon, Managing Director,
iWayAfrica, added: “We have been working
with RCS since May 2009 for VSAT
broadband services in South Sudan.
“It is the leading ISP in its market with
an excellent service reputation. Now with
HYLAS 4, we can bring Avanti’s service
to South Sudan and enable our partner
RCS to deliver even faster download and
upload speeds.”
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