Telecom Namibia is strengthening collaboration with government institutions to advance digital transformation and connectivity across the public sector.
A two-day annual stakeholders' engagement between Telecom Namibia and government offices, ministries, and agencies is underway in Swakopmund.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Minister Emma Theofelus informed the National Assembly that Telecom Namibia has started the process to overhaul most of its overworked and oldest equipment to improve network service.
Usakos is poised to become one of Namibia's most digitally advanced towns, following the signing of a landmark Memorandum of Understanding between Telecom Namibia and the Usakos Town Council.
Sibbinda Constituency is the latest to receive fibre connectivity from Telecom Namibia.
Connected to the internet now are the constituency office, the health centre, and the education circuit.
Digital transformation, access to information, and infrastructure development are top priorities of the Strategic Policy Plan of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
Paratus Namibia has dismissed an earlier nbc News report that quoted a cybersecurity expert saying the company “appears to still be in the dark” about the extent of the data compromised.
Paratus has confirmed a cybersecurity breach after detecting unauthorised activity in its internal IT systems.
The company stated that the incident disrupted some information systems, affecting business operations.
The Head of the Computer Science Department at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), Edward Nepolo, says that the recent cyberattacks on Telecom Namibia serve as a wake-up call for Namibia.
There are still parts of Namibia without access to telecommunication networks.
Mupini village, in the Kavango West Region, is one of the areas earmarked for the construction of a telecommunications tower.
Telecom Namibia (TN) on Monday deactivated 191,598 unregistered prepaid Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards in a move to comply with regulations set by the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN).
