Every time a million people stream the same football match, mobile networks waste bandwidth by sending a million separate copies of the same video. Broadcast towers solved this problem decades ago by sending one signal that any receiver in range can pick up. 5G Broadcast is the attempt to bring that one-to-many efficiency into the cellular world, so a single transmission can serve a whole neighborhood, stadium, or apartment block.
The idea is finally leaving the lab. Commercial receivers, government rollouts, and new reliability research all landed within the past year. Here's what the technology actually is, where the confusing terminology trips people up, and how close it really is to replacing cable.
Unicast versus Multicast
Normal mobile data is unicast, offering one...
Nigeria's social media growth industry runs on infrastructure most users never see. Behind every follower, like, or view delivered through an SMM panel sits a technical system deciding how that engagement actually gets sourced, processed, and delivered. For developers and resellers building on top of these platforms, understanding that infrastructure matters as much as the storefront itself.
Chickletboost, a Nigerian social media growth platform now also serving Ghana and Kenya, has built its infrastructure around a specific technical and philosophical choice, routing engagement through real, active users rather than automated bot networks, while still exposing that system through a fully-featured REST API developers can build on directly.
The Real Problem With Bot-Driven Infrastructure
Most SMM panels source engagement through automated bot networks,...
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a crucial aspect of marketing. While other digital marketing strategies are indeed successful, the most influential campaigns are made based on SEO.
SEO allows consumers to find a company easily in search engines such as Google. More traffic means more conversions, hence more sales.
Businesses must implement effective SEO strategies to increase their revenue. You can contact Robin Ooi to assist you with developing SEO strategies that will suit your business needs.
1. Improve user experience across the entire website
As a website owner, you must have that desire to offer best results when you are optimizing your...
Multichoice, a South African TV satellite dish operator, will be adding streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix to its DSTV platform soon. This new development comes as the TV operator continues to experience growth in the market, adding about 900,000 GOTV and DStv subscribers to its pay-TV platform over its last financial year.
Already, Multichoice offers its video-on-demand subscription-based streaming service, but in a bid to add a new set of fresh subscribers to its already large 19.5 million subscriber base, the company is looking to add the Netflix and Amazon Video Prime streaming services to the services...
Finding new ways to engage your audience and drive traffic to your website isn’t easy for many businesses in these unstable times. That’s why it’s a good idea to rethink your social media marketing strategy and start to use LinkedIn to reach more of your potential clients.
LinkedIn, arguably the most professional social media platform, is often overlooked. But it shouldn’t be, as it is a highly effective platform for networking and reaching out to your potential clients or business partners.
This article lists the best ideas on how to engage your target audience on LinkedIn.
1. Appeal to your Potential Clients...
Content marketing is now a crucial part of most successful businesses' marketing campaigns. With the best content marketing tools, you can supercharge your marketing efforts to deliver the best results.
These tools help you create and manage your content marketing funnel, create amazing content, run outreach campaigns, engage leads effectively, and manage your team.
Here’s the truth: to scale your content marketing, you definitely need tools to automate your work. I have used some of these tools personally, and they have helped me in building my brand. They can help you build yours, too.
In this post, I reviewed 43 of the...
We are living in an era where email is considered one of the most important ways of communication. Most of our work and personal correspondence goes through email. Therefore, it becomes crucial to keep our mailboxes clean in order to stay productive at work and in life. A messy mailbox can distract a lot when you need to find important messages in a short time.
However, it may not be as easy as it sounds. These days, almost everyone has an active digital life, and most often, we use our work email account to sign up for various shopping websites,...
In recent years, cyber security threats have become even more prevalent and damaging to businesses and other organizations. One reason for this is the increased dependency on smart devices and remote work. Any device connected to a network is a potential entry point for hackers. Every desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone used for work puts the business at higher risk.
Even the best antivirus software often cannot detect every type of cyber attack. However, EDR systems have become a viable solution in recent years. These systems actively monitor each endpoint in a network, preventing potential hacks.
Currently, EDR is the most...
Have you ever thought about what makes people go through with a purchase decision? While most people would provide a logical explanation for what they bought, there are other factors in play. There are certain emotional triggers and logical devices that had influenced them.
Robert Cialdini, a psychologist, had written about the principles of influence in his famous book "Influence: Science & Practice". These principles are used in every aspect of communication. But the use of the principles in online sales is what can change how you market online.
Here are the six principles of influence and how it can be...
“Uber For” is revolutionizing the different industries by catering to the on-demand needs of the category and the different niches. For instance, Uber for food has now resulted in on-demand food that you can call for at any time, and track till it arrives at your doorstep.
“Uber for” or on-demand has revolutionized the food, grocery, laundry, medical, salons, and other industries. It has even hit the job industries such as carpentry, plumbing, and others, making it more like a marketplace for the people who want to avail the service and the sellers who are providing these services.
The only difference...
Boredom is now a regular theme. Thanks to the current situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it's gotten to whole new levels. As a result, many people have tried out different ways to effectively beat it.
That's easier said than done though, even with a computer and the best games around. Thankfully, this article will roll out ten creative and effective ways to help you use that computer and Internet connection to beat boredom.
To wit...
1. Live TV and Movie Streaming:
Remember all those shows and movies you barely had time to see? Well, there's no better time to watch them than...
WordPress accounts for over 35% of the entire websites on the web as it is the most commonly used CMS in the world. If you are new to the world of websites or blogging, the question that would probably be on your mind is what is WordPress?
When you start navigating google search, scrolling down the pages you will come across a large number of websites that are primarily built on WordPress.
However, there are other web creation tools available in the market that are providing great CMS features but, no one is quite as popular as WordPress.
The manifest reason behind...
Right from its launch, Angular JS has ruled the world of open-source application development. As a highly advanced feature-rich and client-side framework, Angular is adopted and used widely by web development firms and individual developers all over the world. Angular web development is a very in demand venture these days.
Building a CRUD App with Angular
When it comes to building a Crud app with Angular, there are essentials that an Angular web developer practices. The first thing to do is to deal with a mountain of data. This data then that lives on the server is dealt with using HTTP...
Today, we have many programming languages used in the mobile app development landscape, but the challenge is to choose one that resonates with our requirements completely.
According to recent reports, AngularJS has taken complete control over mobile app development.
AngularJS made its presence in the market in the year 2009 and the reason for its popularity among developers is that the framework is easy to work with and simplifies the web app development process.
What is AngularJS?
AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework introduced and maintained by Google to address the challenges faced by the developers while developing and testing the code. AngularJS...
Have you always wanted to venture into agriculture; start a poultry farm, a piggery, a cow ranch, or better still plant crops, but you are always busy with one or two things and don't think you can juggle between work and farm? What you may need are Agriculture Investment Platforms.
Don't worry, there are a number of crowdfunding based agriculture investment platforms that makes it possible for you to own a farm without any manual labor on your part.
There are tons of Agricultural Investment Platforms that enable you to invest your hard earned money into agriculture and get a good...
Bloggers are often on the hunt for reliable and cheap web hosting. They want a hosting company that will keep their blog running at an affordable price. If you are planning to start a blog, you would want a hosting company that has a good uptime without breaking the bank.
What makes a Web Host reliable, and what price can be said to be cheap?
Reliability implies a web hosting service that guarantees above 99.9% uptime, with multiple IPs to deliver fast speed globally.
Therefore, having a vast distribution of servers and network infrastructure to support real local hosting solutions is vital.
If...
Competition is brutal in platforms like Google’s Play Store and the Apple’s App Store.
Regardless of how excellent your app may be, there are just so many others out there vying for your audience's interest! So, it’s up to your marketing content to do the heavy lifting and help you build a core audience to nurture and grow.
Something easier said than done.
As your primary target is mostly mobile users, you are not only competing with other apps in your niche. You also have to gain attention from twitter notifications, WhatsApp alerts, and other distractions on your potential downloader’s screens.
In this...
OList was an online platform where buyers can meet sellers. It is an marketplace that allows sellers to upload information about products or services they want to put-up for sale for interested buyers to connect with them. It is more or less like a classified Ads website.
This article will be useful to those interested in making money by disposing items, those interested in buying and those interested in selling items online.
OList was launched by Opera the owners of OPay and enables users to deal in variety of different goods and services be it old or new.
It included categories like...
OLeads is an online tool that enables Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) easily create websites that will help them generate leads and promote their products and services. OLeads was launched in 2019 by Opera, the owners of OPay.
Per Wetterdal VP of Global Business Development at Opera at the launch of OLeads explained that, Nigeria was undergoing rapid digitization with an online population of over 110 million people which is estimated to grow to 188 million within the next four years.
He further explained that OLeads will provide millions of Nigeria businesses the opportunity to use this digital transformation to reach...
YouTube is one of the most popular websites, watched worldwide. You can find all kinds of content on YouTube, whether it's for kids or adults who love to watch movies, songs, or anything they like.
People also love to share YouTube videos on other platforms as audio, or they may want to save the audio on their phone; for that, they need the best YouTube to MP3 converter.
People love converting videos to MP3 because they want to listen to the audio whenever they are free, whether on a plane, bus, or in bed.
Why do you need a YouTube-to-MP3 converter?
If you...
The internet has provided us with various means of making legitimate income online, and one of the model provided is Domain Investing
Domain Investing is an online investment model that has stood the test of time due to its low-entry Cost, high return on Investment and increase in demand for quality domain names by new startups or establish brands that are seeking to rebrand to improve their online presence.
Think of Domain Investing as an Online real estate, it really becomes clear where the money lies and where you’re able to make money.
Imagine owning plots of land on an Island in...
If you have been in the SEO game for a while, you must have realized that SEO requires absolute patience and time. You work dozens of hours every week and continue to do so for at least a month before you see the tiniest impact on your rankings and domain authority.
However, there are some strategies that will never bring you any results, and you might just be utilizing those.
So if you’re using any such unproductive strategies, it is better you do away with them and direct your energies towards those that in fact bring in results.
Stop Checking Your Rankings...
Night browsing is very popular in Nigeria because it offers cheap browsing and provides internet surfers with ample time to search for information on...
Big Brother Naija (a.k.a. BBNaija) is a popular Reality TV show in Nigeria, South Africa, and across Africa, offered by MultiChoice on platforms such...
DStv Stream (formerly DStv Now, and often just called the DStv app) is MultiChoice's internet streaming service that lets you watch live TV, movies,...
