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Telecommunications giants in Ghana, MTN has assured its customers who may lose their phone numbers for not re-registering their SIM cards that their MoMo accounts will be safe.

CEO of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr. Kenneth Edem Ashigbey says some nine million SIM cards, seven million of which have mobile money wallets containing over GHS200 million risk being deactivated on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

Handset brand Honor expanded its smartphone range with the China launch of the Honor 90 series, touting upgraded camera hardware and photography features to appeal to content creators.

The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has invited applications for its planned sale of 5G spectrum, which it hopes to complete by mid-August. Spectrum is being offered in the 700MHz, 800MHz, 2.3GHz, 2.6GHz, 3.3GHz, 3.5GHz, 5GHz and E-band (71GHz-76GHz, 81GHz-86GHz) ranges. The sale is open to both National Telecom Operator (NTO) licensees and Regional Public Infrastructure Provider (RPIP) licensees. NTO’s can apply for national or regional allocations.

A trio of students from Regent University College of Science and Technology performed with distinction at the Huawei ICT Academy National Competition, which was held on February 22, 2023, at the Huawei Ghana Head Office, in Accra.

Brad Smith, president and vice chair at Microsoft, waded into the ethical AI debate, presenting a blueprint for governing the technology which argues humans should remain in control of systems and deployment of safeguards in cases where it is used for critical infrastructure.

A quartet of regional Canadian authorities joined a broader government probe into OpenAI, as the nation became the latest to question the privacy and ethical credentials of the company’s AI-powered ChatGPT product.

Google-owned YouTube announced mobile-only video feature Stories will begin to be wound down in June, with the company trying to push content creators towards short-form and community alternatives.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and European Commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton (pictured) struck an initial agreement on developing voluntary rules on AI, ahead of EU regulation on the technology being finalised.

During MWC 2023, Huawei released the industry’s first commercial 50G PON solution for ultra-broadband access. This solution can help operators build green all-optical access networks that support full services, smooth evolution to F5.5G, and 10 Gbps everywhere.