Optimising mobile apps for healthcare
15 April 2024
Galen Murdock, CEO and co-founder, ShareMy.Health
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Optimizing health care with mobile applications and services offers huge benefits to professionals and patients. But problems with internet connectivity can blunt the effectiveness of mobile health solutions in communities and rural areas.
In developing nations in Africa and Asia, where mobile infrastructure can vary wildly in quality, connectivity issues can have devastating impacts on health care. And yet, these challenges can be overcome, maximising the positive health outcomes from seamless and accurate data sharing over wireless networks.
Read the full article Monetising 5G — lessons we’ve learned so far
04 April 2024
Chantel Cary, director product marketing, Oracle
Five years on from the first commercial launch of 5G, the network has not exactly lived up to early expectations and the industry has collectively struggled to identify viable use cases and monetisation strategies, particularly for the consumer market. This may be especially disconcerting for those communications service providers (CSPs) who have yet to roll out the network.
According to GSMA Intelligence, only 27 operators across 16 markets in Africa have launched 5G as of September 2023, representing less than 5% of mobile network connections. Despite the general disillusionment with where the industry stands with monetising 5G, there are still some valuable lessons that we’ve learned along the way and that service providers should consider as they plan their deployments.
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Fintech wave: navigating fintech challenges amid growth
04 April 2024
Mpho Matsitse, executive: business & digital advisory, BCX
Fintech’s impact on the financial services industry is multi-faceted, reshaping how financial services are delivered, accessed, and experienced.
It encourages innovation, promotes competition, and drives efficiency, benefiting consumers and businesses by providing more options, lower costs, and improved fiscal management capabilities.
Read the full article Mission critical services – ensuring a smooth transition
03 April 2024
Harald Ludwig, chair, TCCA Technical Forum
Amidst all development within 3GPP, and the mission critical broadband features emerging, national TETRA network operators and users are investigating and preparing to adopt the new mission critical technologies. However, it is accepted that TETRA will be needed to work in parallel with the emerging critical broadband networks, and for that to happen there needs to be a mechanism put in place for the two networks to operate in harmony.
Since 2021, stakeholders in critical communications have been discussing if an interworking function (IWF) is to be made available in the market so it can be used for the communication between the existing narrowband TETRA systems and the 3GPP MCX services. These are mission critical Push-to-Talk (MCPTT), mission critical data (MCData) and mission critical video (MCVideo) collectively known as MCX, running on 4G/LTE and 5G bearers. As mission critical broadband technologies are deployed, this requirement for interworking with existing TETRA systems is becoming increasingly important.
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