The Telecom26 blog

Telecom26 provides telecom services across Africa with customers and partners in almost every country.

We have previously looked at how we are helping with the rollout of digital healthcare programmes in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Ghana.   

This week we will take a look at telecoms in Malawi, another country in Africa where Telecom26 has a strong presence and is providing connectivity to IoT Healthcare programmes being rolled out by Big Pharma customers, Healthcare diagnostic partners and NGOs, including SystemOne.

Telecom26 provides telecom services across Africa with customers and partners in almost every country.

We have previously looked at what Telecom26 is up to in Zimbabwe and Mozambique and recently unveiled details about how we are providing connectivity to IoT Healthcare programmes being rolled out by SystemOne.

Enabling IoT in healthcare is something that the team at Telecom26 is passionate about. And it’s very topical as the spread and economic consequences of COVID-19 continues to disrupt the traditional ways that we shop, socialise, work, educate ourselves - and receive medical treatment.

Last week we wrote about Loon’s commercial launch in Kenya and how its balloons are bringing much-needed broadband connectivity to rural areas. And previously we covered what Telecom26 is up to Zimbabwe.  

… Enabling real-time diagnostic data using IoT technology can help control the spread of TB, HIV, and COVID-19…

After nine years of R&D and testing, Google’s sister firm Loon this week announced that a fleet of balloons is now providing broadband services in Kenya. According to this post by Alastair Westgarth, Loon’s CEO, “this is a first in many ways: the first non-emergency use of Loon to provide connectivity on a large-scale basis, the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, and the first of what will be many commercial deployments around the world”.