Zambia welcomes partnerships with Huawei

A delegation from the Kaspersky this week met with the Ministry of Science and Technology to provide an update on their efforts to combat cyber-crime.

The facility will act as an innovation and collaboration hub for the mining sector and will also offer training and capacity-building programmes.

The government announced that the Integrated National Registration Information System project would be postponed as part of efforts to free up financial resources to address the effects of the drought.

Total number of active mobile cellular subscriptions increased by 6.4 percent to 21.1 million subscribers in 2023 from 19.8 million subscribers in 2022.

Zambia's communications regulator trained 120 judges, magistrates, and police officers on the best ways to detect and investigate cyber security threats.

The Kenneth Kaunda International Airport and the East Park shopping mall in Lusaka, the capital, are the most recent infrastructures to be connected.

The administration is building of a 65-metre-high communication tower in the northern province of Muchinga, marking a significant step towards that goal.

Rumours circulated that the telecom provider had again fallen foul of regulators due to frequent network failures.

The majority of the tower upgrades are in the North Western province, where this year, the government wants 19 4G towers installed and 41 refurbished.

Felix Mutati, the Science and Technology Minister, announced the investment at an event honouring women in the information technology sector.

Some 87 towers are to be upgraded during an exercise that resumed on Friday.

This is the second such incident in as many months, the last disruption prompted authorities to compel the mobile operator to compensate clients.