A team of seven telecoms specialists has completed a “connectivity tour” through Africa that started at MWC in 2019.
telecommunications specialists from Cellusys, a telecoms cybersecurity and consulting company based in London, has successfully completed an epic, five-year journey by road across Africa, arriving in Cape Town on Friday.
The brainchild of company chairman Dawood Ghalaieny, the Cellusys team used the road trip to gain a better understanding of the operating environment that its clients, including MTN Group, must navigate as they strive to provide connectivity services to various parts of the continent.“Africa is under a microscope because the market is developing very quickly.
Sena – who is based in London but who is originally from Brazil – and her team were impressed by the level of connectivity they had throughout their journey, although they did note disparities in connectivity between different regions. “In some countries, we had 4G all the way through, others only had 3G, but there are some places where there is absolutely nothing,” she said.But improvements in infrastructure are evident.
Sena said that mobile money is also available in Brazil, her home country, but it is not as widely used as she witnessed across Africa. But as connectivity levels on the continent improve, the gaps in the quality of other digital services critical to everyday living become more apparent.“On one part of the journey, Google Maps said it would take 40 minutes to reach our destination; it took three or four hours. We had to drive really slowly, else we would have destroyed the cars.
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