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Rwanda ups the ante in race to provide remote coverage

NEWS

RWANDA is positioning itself as an early contender in a cosmic tug-of-war in which tech titans are lining up to beam high-speed internet across remote parts of Africa. Rwanda's interest was made abundantly clear when the country announced on October 20 that it had transmitted a video stream to Japan over HAPS 5G, using an unmanned vehicle positioned in the Stratosphere. According to RCR Wireless News, "HAPS stands for High-Altitude Platform Station, although they are also sometimes referred to as High-Altitude Pseudo Satellites, and they can come in the form of airships, balloons or fixed-wing drones." For the test, Rwanda’s…

High-speed internet comes to rural Liberia

NEWS

MILLIONS of Liberians will access high-speed internet services with the deployment of at least 200 telecom towers in the West African country. The deployment announcement was made by Orange Liberia CEO Jean Marius Yao, who added that the telco would also provide technology upgrades in the country. "This two-year partnership will enable us to accelerate our rural coverage with the deployment of over 200 solar-based rural sites, including at least 55 this year, so that all Liberians, no matter where they are, be able to: communicate with their loved ones, communicate with their business partners, receive and transfer money using…

High-tech internet solution across the Congo River links Kinshasa, Brazzaville

SCIENCE, TECH AND INNOVATION

SETH ONYANGO, BIRD ALPHABET’S research and development subsidiary, X (X Development LLC) has begun beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River, expanding network connectivity to nearly 18 million people in Kinshasa and Brazzaville. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT) to bridge a 4.8-km connectivity gap between Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a major breakthrough that solves the challenge of painstaking laying fibre optic cables across the Congo River, the world’s deepest and second-fastest river. Before the novel initiative, dubbed “Project Taara”, connectivity was five…