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Equipping African Hotels to Compete

Aug 2, 2020 |

Zimbabwe-based hotel-booking startup Africabookings is the second platform acquired by B2B firm HotelOnline within a month, as the company looks to increase its B2B offering. That deal was completed in June, at…

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The African Travel Business Looks Online

Aug 2, 2020 |

Online travel experiences are more or less the only way for holiday makers to enjoy tourism today and many tourism bodies are offering virtual trips. The fate of tourism’s expos,…

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Sonatel Looks for Funding to expand in West Africa

Aug 2, 2020 |

Sonatel (42% owned by France’s Orange) is planning to raise $171 million on the regional market for the first time to take advantage of higher demand for digital services amid the COVID pandemic. The company…

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Increases in Coverage Reported

Aug 2, 2020 |

The Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy has reported that the country has achieved 40.18% broadband penetration and plans to reach 70% broadband penetration target by 2025. Nigeria has also seen 2.5 million new internet subscribers since April. According to…

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Balloon-powered Internet in Africa

Aug 2, 2020 |

Loon, part of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, in collaboration with Telkom Kenya, launched 35 balloons which have started delivering internet service to Kenya this month, extending online access to tens of thousands of people in the first-ever commercial deployment…

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