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South African telecoms operator MTN Group has partnered with social media giant Meta to enhance the quality and reliability of voice and video calls on real-time calling applications such as WhatsApp across 12 MTN markets.

Rack Centre, which claims to be the only carrier neutral Tier III Constructed Facility Certified data centre in Africa, has officially launched its second facility in Lagos Nigeria.

African telecoms operators MTN Group and Airtel Africa have agreed to share network infrastructure in Uganda and Nigeria.

The Nigerian Ministry of Communications has launched an initiative called the National Broadband Alliance for Nigeria (NBAN), targeted at boosting broadband development in Africa's most populous country.

Sydney-based AI decision intelligence platform provider, SourseAI, has been appointed as the AI partner for Lebara Nigeria, an upcoming MVNO operated by Nigerian tech firm VAS2Nets, which will operate under the Lebara brand.

The Nigerian Government has agreed to partner with Ericsson as a move toward deploying 5G connectivity in Nigeria.

West Africa carrier and cloud neutral data centre Rack Centre is training artisans from its host community to be involved in the construction of LGS2, a data centre in Lagos, Nigeria, as part of its sustainability initiative.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

Microsoft has terminated employees and ended some of its partnerships in the Middle East and Africa as part of its investigations, following allegations of kickbacks and bribery in its operations in those regions.

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Dell Technologies, along with ICT enabler Computer Aid International, has launched its Solar Learning Labs project in Australia with the first lab to be funded for delivery to an Indigenous community and to be rolled out next year, and a total of five planned by 2030.

After what seems like an eternity, a security company has dared to mention the unmentionable: the US does have advanced persistent threats or nation-state attack groups which are active.

China was the second most prevalent country of origin, behind Nigeria, for cloud application attacks originating in the first quarter of 2019, with 26% of global attacks coming from Chinese IP addresses, according to a newly released security report.

A lone attacker in Nigeria has been found to be responsible for a wave of relatively unsophisticated intrusion attempts into about 4000 companies worldwide.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation claims 34 countries have enacted unwarranted policy restrictions that make it more expensive and time consuming — if not illegal — to transfer data across national borders.

A Nigerian software engineer who works for Andela in the US was asked for proof of his qualifications at JFK airport in New York when he was trying to enter the US recently.

Inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee has joined forces with tech giants Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others in a bid to make Internet access more affordable in less-developed countries.

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