A WHOLE LOT OF FIBRE In Part One of this series, I posited that the fight for broadband dominance in East and Southern Africa was only between O3b Networks’ proposed launch of 16 LEOS and the…
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Google’s O3b Networks -vs- EASSy. Fight! Part 1
September 19, 2008 Kenya Rwanda Somalia south africa Sudan technology ZimbabweIf you’ve been keeping pace in the Afri-tech space lately, you have probably heard about two of the biggest projects battling for the Broadband Title by being the first to bring ubiquitous broadband access to…
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O3b Is Now Bringing Its High Speed Satellite Internet To Emerging Markets
September 5, 2014 technologyMost satellite internet and data services are from satellites in geosynchronous orbit – a little over 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. That distance increases the time it takes for data signals to travel. O3b’s satellites,…
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Google reportedly launching 180 satellites for global internet service | The Verge
June 2, 2014 technologyGoogle’s reported plans to roll out a fleet of satellites likely won’t make its efforts with drones or balloons obsolete. Tim Farrar, a consultant who worked for a company that tried to offer satellite-based internet access…
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Peering into Africa’s Mobile Technology space, and where to invest
March 19, 2009 Events & Conferences Kenya Rwanda south africa Sudan technology UgandaThis past weekend, I had the honor of being invited to be on a panel discussion at South by Southwest (SXSW), “Appfrica: How Web Applications are Helping Emerging Markets Grow” The panel was moderated by one of…
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Project Diaspora at Barcamp, MobileActive08
October 10, 2008 Events & Conferences south africa technologyGood news, PD is jetting off into the sunset in effort to cover the latest, biggest, baddest confabs about and/or in Africa. Yours truly just landed in Johannesburg, just in time to catch Barcamp Johanessburg this…
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Samasource’s Leila Chirayath Janar on bringing Facebook Developer Garage to Africa
December 14, 2008 Events & Conferences Ghana technology UgandaManaging to successfully thwart an international scheduling conflict, Jon Gossier of AppAfrica synchronized schedules with Leila Chirayath Janar, founder of Samasource to host the first ever Facebook Developer Garage in Kampala. Trekking all the way from…
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THIS JUST IN: Steve Song at Many Possibilities just chirped to let me know that Alcatel-Lucent, the company contracted to build out EASSy’s 10,000Km undersea cable, announced yesterday that it’s going to deliver 1.4…
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