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Sep 25
Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority has ordered consumer-finance companies to link their databases to its own and send customers' purchases in real time. The statement says nothing about consent or data protection.
Egypt FRA orders real-time consumer-finance data link
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TECH dot AFRICA
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Sep 25
The @MTNGroup Foundation and the Gates Foundation will spend about $25m to 2030 on phones, data and AI tools for Nigerian mothers and frontline health workers. The announcement does not yet say what the AI actually is.
MTN, Gates Foundation launch Nigeria maternal health tool
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Sep 25
Traffic at the Tanzania Internet eXchange has risen more than 80% in a year, to about 205 Gbps on the exchange's own statistics. Operator TISPA says it has now upgraded TIX's core switch capacity to 100G.
Tanzania Internet eXchange TIX upgrades core to 100G
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TECH dot AFRICA
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Sep 24
AFRICLOUD has joined GigaPIX, Portugal's internet exchange. With DE-CIX Lisbon and Madrid, it now takes routes from 16 of the 20 African-registered networks on the three, and reaches 92% of Brazilian-registered networks.
AFRICLOUD joins GigaPIX, Portugal's internet exchange
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Sep 23
About 906 million Africans live inside mobile broadband coverage and do not use it. Only 122 million live beyond any network. @GSMA and PDAA have a roadmap for the first number, and it now includes electricity as well as handsets and skills.
GSMA: Africa's mobile internet usage gap is 906 million
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