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Google, Facebook and Yahoo have flipped the switch to the new Internet addressing system, while ISPs such as Japan’s KDDI and India’s HNS will permanently enable IPv6 for a significant portion of their residential wireline subscribers. Home networking equipment manufacturers will also turn on IPv6 by default in home router products.

Internet2 has gone nationwide across the US.

At its annual member meeting this month, the nonprofit advanced network consortium announced that it had completed its new nationwide network infrastructure, which has an initial capacity of 100Gbps and bandwidth-on-demand capabilities.

Network limited to a subcounty, and a community will be issued with a 10-year license.

In Summary

• Communities can now organise themselves in such a model so as to supply and provide internet services through community networks.
• The advantage of an Internet Network that is set up this way is that it has collective ownership, helps in the growth of local economies, and promotes local content development.

The city has invested more than Sh 25 billion in infrastructure and development

Summary

• The license classifies Tatu Telecom Company, the trading entity, as a Network Facilities Provider (NFP) Tier 2 and Application Service Provider (ASP).
• Businesses in Tatu are also exempted from import duty and enjoy zero-rated VAT, among other business-friendly benefits.

Tatu City has received its telecom operating license to provide internet service to businesses and residents in and around the 5,000-acre.

Die Verbindung mit dem globalen Internet-Backbone erfolgt in rund 20 afrikanischen Staaten ausschließlich über Satelliten. Dadurch steht nur eine begrenzte Bandbreite zur Verfügung und der Preis ist vergleichsweise hoch. Das neue Kabel soll einen schnelleren und billigeren Zugang zum Internet ermöglichen. Die Regierung Kenias verspricht sich daraus wirtschaftliche Vorteile.

• ICT Principal Secretary Jerome Ochieng' says work to increase the bandwidth capacity to be completed in two or three months.

Kenyans will from June start experiencing faster Internet speeds as the government completes plans to increase capacity by up to tenfold.

ICT Principal Secretary Jerome Ochieng’, during a visit at the Telkom Kenya offices in Mombasa, said due to the increased Internet usage in the country, the ministry is expanding the bandwidth for increased efficiency.

President Museveni has given Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) ‘unlimited access’ to national optic fibre backbone infrastructure network and ordered for immediate cancelation of a multi-billion ‘unfavourable’ Internet contract government officials signed with Soliton Telmec, a Kenyan company.

The President, who chaired the Cabinet meeting on Monday, said he was the one who went to China to negotiate the Shs300b loan for the National Data Transmission Backbone Infrastructure and e-Government Infrastructure (NBI/EGI) project.

Beneficiaries of the newly acquired capacity include the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) and the Government Electronic Network (GovNet), which are government-led projects established to improve online public service access and capability.

The percentage of households having access to the Internet has increased to 91.7 per cent in 2020 from 90.1 per cent in 2019, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) today.

Chief statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said access to mobile phones and computers also increased to 98.6 per cent and 77.6 per cent, respectively, in 2020.

Beneficiaries of the newly acquired capacity include the Mozambique Research and Education Network (MoRENet) and the Government Electronic Network (GovNet), which are government-led projects established to improve online public service access and capability.

The bandwidth will help MoRENet to deliver reliable and cost-effective, high-speed internet traffic to member institutions whilst creating the platform to share education and research content with other Nationwide Research Education Networks (NRENs) around the world.

After failing to secure support for a US$2 billion broadband project to connect all African countries, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) is now setting up an Internet service linking parliaments on the continent.

The African Union Pan-African parliament network was officially opened last week by South African President Jacob Zuma, with the aim of speeding up regional integration to enhance scientific development and technological innovation across the continent.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Thursday said the state government would connect no fewer than 100 schools to internet by the end of May.

Sanwo-Olu said this during the inauguration of Lagos State Schools Infrastructure Projects and four school buildings.

He said that the state government had started to roll out fibre optics across state-owned schools to aid learning through high-speed internet connectivity.

The project was executed by Messrs Chapman Computers Nigeria Limited in conjunction with their foreign technical partners, Gilat Satcom of Israel.

The project, which would connect all the 53 nations of the African Union (AU) by a satellite and fiber-optic network, is to provide tele-education, tele-medicine, internet, Nideo-conferencing and VOIP services, and also support e-governance, e-commerce and effective communication among the nations.

Broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has committed to improve internet connectivity in Davao City by linking it to an international cable system that will be activated in 2024.

Converge CEO and co-founder Dennis Anthony Uy said his company would boost and expand its network infrastructure in Davao to support its push to become a digital city.

Uy told Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte that Converge would keep on investing in Davao City, especially as the firm builds up its international bandwidth.

The need for resilient, affordable and secure Internet access has become more pronounced than ever, as the Covid-19 pandemic has forced human connection and interaction to be digitized in all ways possible, to flatten the curve, so to speak. Millions of workers, including public servants, must work from home, and hospitals, schools, local governments and business operations rely on the Internet to avoid the least disruption despite the social distancing required by circumstance.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Communications Satellite, NIGCOMSAT, Engr. James Egerton-Idehen has disclosed that reliable and affordable internet access remains a challenge for many Nigerians.

She disclosed this while delivering a lecture entitled “Championing Innovation: Digital Transformation and Economic Diversification in Nigeria”, on Saturday.