After 6 years of business, the Apple iTunes store has sold over 8 billion songs, or over 75% of worldwide online music sales. An additional 1 billion+ videos were downloaded between 2005 and 2008, and over 1 billion apps have already been purchased. However, these numbers mean little to Africans, …

A recent article in Business Daily Africa examines how telecoms, specifically in Kenya, have taken measures to prevent downtime across their fiber optic networks. Interestingly, however is the potential for shark bites to interrupt fiber optic service to parts of Africa. I’m not sure if the author is basing this …

The threat of cable vandalism and theft is by no means new to Africa. For the past few years, copper cable theft (as opposed to fiber optic) has been the main target. Although Africa’s infrastructure may be scattered, there are still thousands of miles of copper cable for criminals to …

A BBC report from the SEACOM landing station in Mombasa and various locations around Kenya. The segment investigates how increased bandwidth will reduce costs for agencies, allow farmers to share information, and allow students to learn in new ways. Is the Internet this generations new independence? Watch and judge for …

Seacom’s exhibition of “true broadband” speeds at the recent Sandton exhibition highlights an often overlooked issue with African Internet connectivity: it doesn’t matter how many people have access to the Internet if the connection is too slow. The text- and image-based Internet is a relic of last decade, although breaking …

Produced by The World Bank: “East and Southern Africa is the only region in the world not connected to the global broadband infrastructure. This ‘missing link’ explains why the region accounts for less than one percent of the world’s bandwidth capacity.”