MTN Gaming Conference brings the gaming community in Ghana together. Providing a platform for stakeholders to exchange ideas on the development of interactive and immersive game experiences. As well as how to shape the future of the gaming industry in Ghana and Africa.
The gaming industry in Ghana seems like an untapped resource as global gaming market revenues are projected to exceed $525 billion by 2023. Newzoo’s insight into the global games market share shows Europe, Middle East and Africa at only 21 percent. As a result of this potential, MTN believes rallying the community together will help it grow and increase economic gains.
MTN Gaming Conference highlights
https://youtu.be/soOr0c-SBrQ
Speakers at the event include Johana Riquier, Business Development Manager at game software development company Unity. Eric Elder, CEO Online Worlds Entertainment, Eyram Tawia, CEO of Leti Arts and Triforce Johnson, CEO Empire Arcadia.
Conversations from keynotes, panel and break out sessions centered on using education as a way to grow the industry. Creating relevant African content and how game developers can fund their projects.
Angry Birds, Peter Vesterbacka, joins via chat
Former chief marketing officer of Rovio Mobile Ltd, Peter Vesterbacka and Mighty Eagle of Angry Birds joins event via video call. Watch video below as he speaks to the audience about the business of gaming. He shared the history of Rovio and how it took Rovio 51 tries to get to hit game Angry Birds.
https://youtu.be/dKV4trmKR2Q
Peter joins at 6:00
The event hosted by MTN Ghana Limited took place at the Accra Digital Center, Accra.
How will you like the freedom to explore, learn, discover and have amazing experiences? An unlimited world of opportunities for a month, albeit at an extra cost. Vodafone Ghana announced a fixed broadband offer targeted at students on vacation. The Amazing Vacation offer. Is this offer any good?
Last month students returned home from school and Vodafone Ghana introduced an unlimited fixed broadband (FBB) monthly package. Giving customers unlimited data usage for a month. Even though it is geared towards students on holiday, anyone can subscribe to it. Currently non of Vodafone Ghana’s FBB package is unlimited. With the highest consumer data package offer being the 400GB data size ‘Office package’.
However to be able to get this unlimited offer you need to have an active FBB package subscription. Then pay an extra one hundred Cedis to get the unlimited data.
So I checked the amazing vacation offer out. I payed the extra one hundred cedis to confirm if this was true and if the experience was any good. You know how you are usually promised a thing and get another.
After paying for this I realized I received an unlimited vacation bonus data of 1TB (1023.72GB). This overrides the existing data and is valid for a month.
I haven’t experienced a throttling of internet speed as my fiber package has worked as normal. Experiencing speeds of 40 to 100 mbps.
Should you consider this package? The offer is currently available till the end of September. But should Vodafone make this happen every vacation it might be worth it. That’s if you use or want to use more data.
Accra .Net user group community invites you to join them for the August meetup. The meeting themed INTRO TO MICROSOFT AZURE, will focus on Microsoft cloud platform Azure.
The invitation reads;
“Come join us as we demystify Microsoft Azure and learn how to develop modern cloud applications. from our seasoned and experienced speakers. Come connect, network, learn and share you love and passion for technology”
In this review i talk about the Vodafone Ghana Fixed Broadband service that solves my 4 years old need. Better late than never as it is a money saver.
UPDATE: There’ve been changes to the service after I first published this post. Kindly scroll down to read about it.
As someone who is always on the go and mobile, i tend to spend a lot on mobile data. I am a heavy user of data. Mobile data isn’t cheap, not in Ghana and any African country. I remember some years back when it was so obvious this was going to be my routine i decided to find a solution. My pocket was feeling the drain by telecommunication companies.
My quest was to find that network that will offer me good internet speed, more data and a reasonable price. I searched, researched, spoke to telecom business managers on their various mobile data options but there was no hope. No one had it all. The closest i came to was super expensive. I was being offered a dedicated line et all but seriously out of my budget.
So i stuck with using Vodafone Ghana Fixed Broadband at home and a mash up of other mobile data packages on the go.
Not the Saviour
I remember when a friend suggested GLO was the saviour i needed. He wasn’t far from right. The pricing was great and they gave lots of mobile data. Maybe as a way to wow in more clients. There was a slight problem though. In the locations i frequent and have to use it, there is either poor or no signal. I would have to use about 30 minutes to 1 hour finding the right spot to place phone or mifi. Oh and this was in Accra and also around the airport so GLO really where does your network work, lol?
Fast forward to June last year when Vodafone Ghana announced it was introducing a new service. Where any suscriber of its fixed broadband service can enjoy their fixed broadband data on their mobile phone. I was like wow God has finally answered my cry.
To put it in context, it means i can walk around with over a 100 GB of data on my mobile phone for less than how much it will actually cost to buy that as mobile data. Let me help you get a clearer idea.
Vodafone currently sells 20GB mobile data at GHS 199, 200GB at GHS 399. Whereas Vodafone Ghana Fixed Broadband packages range from 20GB at GHS 85, 40GB at GHS 125, 80GB at GHS 180, 200GB at GHS 265 and 500GB at GHS 400. (these prices might have been changed as at the time of reading). This means if i buy the 200GB for FBB and transfer it to mobile i have saved about 134 GHS.
Vodafone Ghana Fixed Broadband Delight
Now this is why i’m delighted and like this service offer. It offers me lots of data at a very good price. Compared to buying the mobile data at a very expensive amount for even less data. Vodafone 3G’s service – (see i’m not even mentioning 4G, that’s for another post) – is everywhere and offers good speeds to do most of my work. Streaming isn’t the best with light buffering on HD content, so i won’t stream HD away from the fiber broadband router (which offers great speeds up to 100Mbps on default routers). But it does however offer everything i had wanted some 4 years ago.
From the terms and conditions of the service, i can buy a data package and as long as i don’t move all of the data – to render the account inactive (you can leave only 1MB, lol) – from the broadband i can keep moving it back and forth till it is either exhausted or package expires. Rendering your FBB inactive after moving all the data to your mobile sim means you can’t reverse it.
Does it work?
Does it work? Yes it does work. I have suscribed to the 200 GB FBB package and moved plus or minus 100 GB to my phone. I spend only nights and weekends at home so balance i guess. Also don’t judge me, lol, i stream everything on HD with the broadband, i mean why not. When i’ve watched various premier league matches, movies, documentaries and run the FFB data down i just use the USSD or the myVodafone portal to send more data to the FBB to top it up. The app can be used as well.
So far i’ve linked two different mobile numbers to the FBB account. Oh one mobile number at a time. Vodafone says “the linked number can only be changed after 30 days of linking“. Well i was able to do that in less days so not so sure about the real limits. The data on the SIM has a three months validity which is good.
I have been able to find more hacks around this to enjoy the service to it’s max. More of that in another post. Subscribe to be updated on new posts.
Have you used this service offer? Did it work for your needs? Got more questions? Share and leave them in the comments or ask me on twitter.
UPDATE
Vodafone has reduced the validity of the shared mobile data from 3 months to align with that of your broadband. You can only link 1 mobile number in all the FBB packages except the office package. (Vodafone really! At least let the 200GB and 400 GB packages link to 2 numbers) Notice anything else? kindly share.
Visual Studio 2019 general availability is 2nd April 2019. Microsoft is hosting a virtual launch event with global local meetups.
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Visual Studio 2019 will become generally available on 2nd April 2019 and Microsoft is hosting a virtual launch event. The event will stream live with local launch meetups across the globe between April 2nd and June 30th. A virtual attendee party called #CodeParty will also take place after the launch event with prizes up for grabs.
Microsoft’s launch event invitation reads:
“The Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event is Coming April 2nd, 9:00am PT(4pm GMT). Whether you’re a C#, C++ or Python dev & target the web, desktop or cloud, we’ll have demos & sessions for all the new goodies coming to Visual Studio 2019. Join us on April 2 at 4 PM PT (11pm GMT) for the virtual attendee party after #VS2019 launch and win prizes like a Surface Go, an Xbox, and gift cards from MobilizeNet, Telerik, Docker, & more! #CodeParty“.
Microsoft Partner Program Manager Scott Hanselman will be leading the Keynote session and promises “it’s something really special“.
“The #VS2019 launch is coming up next Tues April 2nd, and I’m deeply proud of the keynote. I hope it’s not like ANYTHING you’ve seen before. I’ve worked with @ch9 for weeks & while it’s just an hour, it’s something really special.” – Scott Hanselman
How can you join the Visual Studio 2019 Launch event?
You can watch the live events on Visual Studio’s Twitch, YouTube, or Channel 9 pages. (You can bookmark this page and refer to the launch date for links, we might just embed it here.)
