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Orange to roll-out network in Liberia
Huawei Technologies to venture
smart grid technologies in Africa
support this development, the group
will invest in network expansion,
expand 4G penetration across the
country and will work to strongly
enhance Internet quality by providing
access to the group’s submarine and
international cable networks.
Bruno Mettling, Deputy CEO of the
Orange Group and Chairman and
CEO of Orange Middle East and
Africa, commented: “The launch
of the Orange brand confirms
our confidence in the country’s
ongoing economic recovery and our
commitment to bring all the benefits
of new digital services to Liberians.”
Orange has announced the launch of
its brand in Liberia with its acquisition
of Cellcom Liberia.
Orange will provide its marketing
expertise and world-class technical
capability to further strengthen the
operator’s established network and
enhance customer service in Liberia.
With a population of 4.6 million
people and relatively low mobile
penetration rate, the country has a
high growth potential for Orange. To
Mamadou Coulibaly, CEO of Orange
Liberia, added: “Even in 2017, an
important part of the Liberian
population is still waiting for basic
telecom services. We intend to
position Orange Liberia by 2020 as
a true catalyst for the digitisation of
Liberian society.”
Juliet Nwanguma, Country Manager,
PayU Nigeria
PayU has rolled out strategies to
intensify efforts to connect businesses
to Nigeria’s online payment market.
Data recently released by the
Nigeria Interbank Settlement
System showed that 5.5 million
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Country Manager of PayU Nigeria,
Juliet Nwanguma said: “At PayU, we
believe that with the deployment of
appropriate strategies and products
which are designed to encourage
more businesses to adopt online
payment, the market in Nigeria
can record triple-digit growth in
The Power Transmission and
Transformation Communications
solution innovatively provides
both hard and soft pipes to enable
multiple services, such as Smart
Grid SCADA, phone dispatching,
OA and video surveillance, ensuring
the security and reliability of power
transmission networks.
“As resources are increasingly
depleted, power companies
are searching for a reliable and
sustainable way of providing
electricity. They are progressively
moving towards smart grids which
integrate traditional power systems
with advanced ICT technologies,
including cloud computing, big
data, IoT and mobility, to connect,
support situational-awareness and
achieve business intelligence of
various power terminals,” said Cyril
Xu Director Public Relations and
Communications at Huawei Kenya.
The major announcement comes at
a time when the continent is seeking
to grow its power connectivity,
including Kenya where the
Government and the energy sector
are putting in efforts to connect
homes across the country with
electricity.
“The use of smart grids is being
unfolded. Leveraging Huawei’s
leading ICT, we have developed
major solutions together with our
partners which covers all aspects of
the electric power industry and the
Power Cloud solution,” commented
Jerry Ji, President of Energy Sector,
Huawei Enterprise Business Group.
Vertiv extends Liebert® PCW
product for data centres
PayU moves to connect businesses to
N200bn online payment market
transactions worth N46.7 billion were
generated through online sales in
the first quarter of 2017. This is an
increase in the quarterly average of
3.5 million transactions worth N33
billion in 2016. This 58% growth is
a clear indication of the increased
confidence and preference for online
sales amongst Nigerians.
Huawei Technologies has announced
plans to advance smart grid
technologies to Africa, beginning
with South Africa, followed by other
countries like Kenya.
both volume and value of online
payments.”
“PayU has succeeded in successfully
assisting small, medium and large
organisations with their online
payments. In particular, the robust
and flexible features of PayU Plus
and PayU Enterprise have assisted
merchants to grow and expand their
online payment business.”
The global expertise of PayU,
combined with its easy-to-use and
secure online products provide
the channel to leverage on this
opportunity and achieve
business objectives.
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Vertiv has announced the extension of the Liebert® PCW
product family to bring highest energy efficiencies and
improved cooling capacities for medium to large data
centres across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific
and South America. The Liebert PCW high chilled water
delta T series has been designed to maximise free cooling
operations at higher temperatures to support entire
critical infrastructures, providing partial Power Usage
Effectiveness (pPUE) below 1.1.
The Liebert PCW range is available from 25 to 220 kW
and is designed to maximise efficiency, as well as grant
the necessary air supply to the servers. Furthermore, Vertiv LIFE™ Services deliver remote
diagnostics and preventive monitoring, providing service
experts the real-time insights and information needed to
quickly identify, diagnose and resolve any irregularities
that may arise in operation.
The integrated Vertiv ICOM™ control, based on a specific
SmartAisle™ algorithm, adjusts the airflow to the servers’
needs without wasting a single watt on unnecessary
cooling or air movement. “The Liebert PCW provides IT managers a one-stop-shop
for increasing cooling capacities, as well as improving
energy consumption in their data centres,” said Kevin
Brady, VP of Thermal Management for Vertiv, EMEA.
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