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The planned upgrade will be carried out in the following towns; NairobiKisumuMombasaNakuru andEldoret. Telkom’s Chief Technical and Information Officer, John Barorot, says that the expansion and optimization programme is geared towards the consistent delivery of high-quality service to all its customers across the country. “There may be pockets of network interruption during the execution of this specific upgrade but our customers and Kenyans should look forward to an even more superior experience once done....

In this article, we will show you some of the best MiFi devices that are reliable. Interestingly, most internet service provides in Nigeria provide Wi-Fi devices for their products. So, there are a lot of Wi-Fi devices you can choose from. Spectranet MiFi Spectranet is a dominant internet service provider in Nigeria, but mainly caters for Lagos and Abuja. Spectranet has different types of WiFi devices with various benefits and capabilities....

The Medical Concierge Group (TMCG) , a Social Enterprise incorporated in Uganda and Kenya since 2012, recently introduced a medical service search platform found at https://search.tmcg.co.ug/ aimed at easing access and enabling people to conveniently find information on healthcare services wherever they are at any time. The Group is a consortium of innovative ventures in the Health Care industry involving Call Centres, Clinics, Ambulances, Pharmacies, Consultancy, Software Applications and a Foundation....

Think about Cr8YoBundle as MTN offering a buffet and their customers selecting an amount of each item to their heart’s desires….. and wallet’s ability. Finally.. the ability to self-prescribe how much of voice, SMS, and data one needs and not the boardroom discussed bundles that were written in stone. I played around with the service and created my own bundle (I called it Ignited Bundle. Side note: MTN can we give our bundles names?...

Most people think the default messages app is the only app you can use to chat with your friends even without the internet. Here, I discuss other apps available for that purpose. Chomp SMS This app is available only for Android phones right now. It gives you a lot of freedom to customize the app according to your theme. You can even send Multimedia Messages and block some numbers. It is available in two versions that are paid and free....

Like previous others, the report was rich in stats pulled from over 3000 software developers in Nigeria. According to the developer community, this report was created to help software engineers understand what employers want. It provides a far better insight into the trends surrounding software engineering as a career path in Nigeria. Let’s take a look into some of the talking points in the report: Backend Engineers rush Devcenter reports that about One-third (31%) of jobs on Gigson asked for back-end software engineers....

What is 5G? 5G is the 5th generation in cellular networks. The first generation began in the 1990s when cellular networks were being established. The second generation began with the first text messages. The third generation was marked by the first phones that could browse the internet. The current 4G period has seen faster, more reliable cellular networks, and phones that can stream content like Netflix. Fifth-generation wireless, or 5G, is the latest iteration of cellular technology, engineered to greatly increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks....

1. Change Storage Location For Downloads Is your phone running out of internal storage space because you can’t stop downloading music on Spotify? You will be glad to know that Spotify allows you to transfer the app and all its files, including downloaded music, to an external SD card. To do this, open the Spotify app and tap the settings icon on the top-right corner. Next, you need to scroll all the way down to the Storage category and click on it, then select SD card....

The operating system is packed with some really interesting features and in this article, we will be showing you the top 11 Windows 11 features you should know about. Top 11 Windows 11 Features You Should Know 1. Voice Typing This is one of the best Windows 11 features you will enjoy using if you are someone that does not like to type. This is an easy method to get the job done....

Huawei. Huawei Technologies Co. is a Chinese multinational networking, telecommunications equipment, and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012. As of 2018, Huawei is the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world behind Samsung. This one of the Chinese smartphone brands that has evolved to become one of the lynch pins in the smartphone industry. With fully documented history in reverse charging technology, Huawei has successfully made the first wireless reverse charging smartphone in the Mate 20 Pro....

” Good day to you all, The Commission has received the feedback on the inconvenience the public experienced due to the limiting of social media platforms recently. Please note that the decision was in line with Section 5(1) (b) and (x) of the Uganda Communications Act, and was collectively arrived at with other stakeholders for the security of our country. All efforts were made to restore the platforms at the earliest possible....

LondaApp is a brainchild of Ugandan tech firm called Kanzu Code, and its goal is to help remove barriers to getting involved in the electoral process by giving youth all information necessary to do so. It has partnered with the #KoiKoiUg campaign, an initiative by Kafunda Kreative, whose aim is to break stereotypes about Uganda abroad and encourage Ugandans to actively participate in the promotion of their country. According to a survey done by Kanzu Code, the Ugandan youth aren’t voting for a number of reasons; they don’t believe in the system, they feel the winner is pre-determined, they hate the long queues and a host of others listed in the Londa Survey Results published last year....

Early this year on January 23rd, the President wrote a letter to the Prime Minister’s office saying he believed that UTL still had a lot of potential to manage Government’s data. However, this seemed hard to believe considering all the trouble the telecom faced. The Government through the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance tweeted a plan to revamp UTL. The strategy aimed to give UTL a fighting chance in the country’s competitive telecom space....

There’s a common misconception by people that waterproof, and water resistance mean the same thing, they actually mean different things. Even though some OEMs and smartphone brands use them interchangeably, we’re here to tell you that they’re not the same thing – they do not mean the same thing. Smartphones are becoming slicker and slimmer and can slip out of our hands easily, and ending up in the toilet, bathtub, and even pool....

So what happens to the existing Huawei smartphone owners? Since the Blacklisting, there has been a temporary suspension to the ban. Within the 90 days, the business will go on as usual but after that, it is a toss-up. Read More: What is Android Open Source Project(AOSP) and why it now matters for Huawei and other OEMs Huawei is also committed in making this as painless as possible for existing Huawei smartphone owners....

What is an Auxiliary Port? An auxiliary port (AUX) literally just means an additional audio input method. It is an asynchronous serial port with an interface that allows the auxiliary input of audio signals for: MP3 playersHeadphonesPortable music playersAmplifiersSpeakers It permits a PC or other device to transmit or receive data one bit at a time. The AUX port is typically used for audio equipment that receives peripheral sound sources, such as digital music players or audio speakers....

What’s Digital Wellbeing? Digital Wellbeing is arguably one of the top 5 features of the Android 9 Pie OS. Basically, Digital Wellbeing is a new dashboard in the Android Pie Settings menu that gets you less addicted to your device. Or perhaps helps curb your smartphone addiction. Whichever the case might be, Google brought in Digital Wellbeing to save you. The feature was announced earlier this year by Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai as a crucial part of Google’s Digital Wellbeing campaign at the company’s I/O 2018 conference back in May....

Augmented reality (AR) is the real-time use of information in the form of text, graphics, audio, and other virtual enhancements integrated with real-world objects. It is this “real world” element that differentiates AR from virtual reality. Now, what is MR? What is Mixed Reality (MR)? Of all the various facets of Extended Reality available today, Mixed Reality is often the one met with the most confusion because people are already confused with AR....

Although having it activated will make it difficult to install Linux or other operating systems on the computer, the secure boot functionality in is primarily designed to protect users from rootkits and other low-level malware attacks by blocking unauthorized activities and drivers from being loaded during the start up process. Modern computers come with the feature enabled. This is a platform feature in UEFI, which replaces the traditional PC BIOS....

A few things we need to know about Bokeh, bokeh is the quality of out-of-focus or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or the background of a subject. The blur that you are so used to seeing in photography that separates a subject from the background is the result of shallow “depth of field” and is generally simply called “background blur”....