We begin today’s Big 5 Daily with the latest announcement from Google to Nigerians. Here we go.
The U.S. Tech giant, Google together with Nigerian fiber cable network provider 21st Century to launched its public Wifi service to provide its public Wi-Fi service, Google Station, in six places in the commercial capital Lagos, including the city’s airport. Read more here.
Aside from the free Wi-Fi launched by the tech giant, Google also announced its newly optimized version for Android called Android Go (Android Oreo). Android Go is a stripped-down version of Android meant to run on inexpensive, low-end devices: devices without much processing power, with limited amounts of RAM, and with a small amount of storage.
We quickly move to Uganda where Facebook is secretly fighting the implemented social media tax by the Ugandan government. This was revealed by Kojo Boakye, the Public Policy Manager as well as Access and Connectivity for Facebook for Africa.
Still in Uganda. Uganda Communication Commission has ordered ISPs and telecoms companies in the country to block about 27 pornography websites. Seems Ugandan authorities are tightening their grip on how the Internet is accessed and used in the country.
Kenya Beats Other African Countries in Mobile Subscription Growth… By 2025, Kenya is forecast to have 35.1 million unique mobile subscribers from 29.6 million in 2017, equivalent to 5.5 percent of the Sub-Saharan Africa subscriber base. The Mobile Economy 2018 Report strongly recommends focussing on rural markets to achieve projected goals in the next seven years.
That’s how we draw the curtain of this week’s Big 5 Daily. Africa’s rising beckons, be a beacon of light. Shine! See you next week.