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From ALFRED SHILONGO in Windhoek, Namibia Namibia Bureau WINDHOEK, (CAJ News) - NAMIBIA’S government insists it will not extend the subscriber identity module (SIM) registration deadline beyond December 31. This position is despite the slow response to the exercise, which has seen half of the SIM cards unregistered at the time of going to press.

The former technology adviser to the United Nations and the chairperson of the Payment Association of Namibia’s e-Money Forum, Paul Rowney, wants to know why the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) continues to harvest the biometric data of clients when registering their SIM cards.

Nine of Namibia’s top young swimmers will represent the country at the Africa Junior Swimming Championships in Mauritius from today till Sunday. 

With compassion and commitment to community welfare, Telecom Namibia - through its Women in Engineering group - has donated care packs, inclusive of sanitary towels, to female...

Telecom Namibia has signed an N$100 million (US$5.2 million) agreement with Huawei to deliver a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) core network as part of its ongoing digital transformation and network modernisation project.

The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) has issued three 5G licences following its sale of spectrum in the 700MHz and 800MHz bands last week.

On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history of the impact of undersea landslides on submarine cables and use some of Kentik’s unique data sets to explore the impacts of these cable breaks.

Tigers and national netball star Elizabeth 'Demolition' Hipondoka was one of the country's most gifted players before independence.

Telecom Namibia has budgeted N$25 million for its internship and apprenticeship programme to hone the skills of the trainees and prepare them for the industry, the chief executive officer of Telecom Stanley Shanapinda has said.

Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) yesterday said it would not share its infrastructure with other industry players.