Telecom Namibia updates country’s telex system
08 November 2019
Navtex is a navigational system used on board the vessels to provide short range maritime safety information on coastal waters
Telecom Namibia and the Ministry of Works and Transport have inaugurated a navigational telex (Navtex) station to the tune of N$7.5m at Walvis Bay.
The first of its kind in Africa, the station provides navigational and meteorological warnings, forecasts and maritime safety information to ships.
Find out more Seacom sub cable suffers brief outage
08 November 2019
Seacom’s submarine cable system briefly experienced what the firm described as “a service-affecting outage” in late October.
The business, which launched Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system along the continent’s eastern and southern coasts back in 2009, published news of the outage in a series of tweets, beginning with the news that it was experiencing a service-affecting outage on its subsea cable system between Mombasa in Kenya and Zafarana in Egypt.
“All linear transmission traffic on the Seacom subsea cable system on the east coast of Africa, to and from Europe, is affected,” it added.
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Vodafone Ghana chief executive calls for big data deployment
08 November 2019
Vodafone stated that big data deployment can be used to make life-saving decisions, owing to an era that has become all but dependent on technology
The chief executive officer (CEO) of Vodafone Ghana, Patricia Obo-Nai, said the utilisation of accurate and timely big data could help save the lives of many in the west African country.
According to a company statement, using data from mobile networks is very critical as it is now a global concept.
It said big data deployment can be used to make life-saving decisions, owing to an era that has become all but dependent on technology.
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