Communication / ICT in Namibia
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BOTSWANA, 2017/06/15
The number of mobile phone subscribers in the world has reached five billion, according to the research arm of the world mobile industry organization, GSMA. But sub-Sahara Africa is the least penetrated with 436 million incomparable subscribers, the organization says in a press release copied to ghanabusinessnews.com.
The GSMA defines a ‘incomparable mobile subscriber’ as an individual person that can account for multiple ‘mobile connections’, that is SIM cards.
According to GSMA Intelligence, the world’s five billion incomparable mobile subscribers today account for approximately 7.7 billion mobile connections – excluding mobile-to-mobile (M2M).
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BOTSWANA, 2016/11/03
Africa is home to some of the world’s greatest digital innovations. From medical applications to inventions aimed at enabling the continent’s educational system, the continent is not just experiencing a digital revolution, but it’s as well solidifying its place as world leader in science and technology.
The number of young people creating life-changing digital applications in Africa continues to grow. In Mozambique, counselors are using Short Message Services to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS, while in Nigeria a Do It Yourself generator that can produce six hours of power just from a liter of urine was invented by a group of 15-year-old girls. And in Zimbabwe, a 24-year-old engineering student has managed approaching up with a machine that turns plastic into diesel.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/08/13
Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in size and population; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/02/08
"Mean spirited", "inhumane" and desecrating the spirit of the Refugee Convention are some of the milder criticisms levelled at Denmark's harsh new asylum laws, passed last week.
Part new measures is a decision to strip new arrivals of any cash and valuables worth additional than 10,000 kroner (US$1,450), purportedly to pay for their upkeep. Switzerland and some southern German states have introduced similar policies.
It's a move that reflects the fragmenting world of European migration policy, lacking in solidarity, empathy and basic human decency. But what of the financial implications for asylum seekers?
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NAMIBIA, 2013/12/06
The national broadcaster, Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), will any minute at this time introduce a third channel, 'nbc 3', which will focus on general entertainment, Chairman of the NBC Board, Sven Thieme, announced last week at the official launch of the corporation's digital terrestrial television (DTT) system, which will see it migrate from analogue to digital television broadcasting.
The switchover, to be effected before the end of the year, is in line with the Roadmap for Digital Broadcasting in the Southern African Domestic Community (SADC) whose deadline has been set for December 2013, while the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has set the world date as June 2015 at the same time as all nations must have migrated to digital television. NBC by presently launched a second live channel to cover parliament, news and current affairs in Windhoek on November 26.
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NAMIBIA, 2013/11/01
The Bank of Namibia has become aware of a new defrauding scheme that has reared its ugly chief. The scheme primarily tries to defraud organisations and individuals by fraudulently obtaining a SIM card replacement to acquire security messages such as one-time pins (OTPs) sent to customers by their banks. The Bank of Namibia therefore alerts members of the public and business enterprises to be vigilant and not fall victim to this prevailing scam.
The modus operandi of is that fraudster typically approaches a mobile operator, impersonating a customer or pretending to act on a customer's behalf, with a fraudulently obtained copy of the said customer's identity document and requests for a SIM card replacement.
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BOTSWANA, 2012/07/30
As people the world over go online, the majority of users' primary means of Internet access will be their mobile phones. This is according to the new “Traffic and Market Statement” by Ericsson, which looks at the mobile landscape for the next five years.
Ericsson's chief of strategic marketing and intelligence, Patrick Cerwall, says: “The Internet is going mobile. Mobile PC and tablet subscriptions will, by 2017, be on the same level as fixed broadband subscriptions.”
