Africa
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Sparkle will team with Telecom Namibia for the provision of capacity services on the Equiano subsea cable connecting Portugal to South Africa, in order to boost Namibia’s digital transformation journey.
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Google has announced the first ever fibre optic route to directly connect Africa with Australia.
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CMC Networks has launched its CMC Cloud solution to deliver high-performance edge computing across Africa.
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Paratus Group, a Pan-African network provider, has announced a new fibre express route running from Johannesburg to Europe.
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CMC Networks has launched its Air Connect solution to deliver wireless connectivity to businesses across South Africa.
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Almost two weeks on from the undersea cable cuts that have blighted connectivity in 12 African countries, the Nigerian Communications Commission demands action.
Forthcoming events
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Guoyu Wang, vice president of Huawei Smart Transportation BU, sheds light on Huawei's recent activity across Southern African rail networks.
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Actis has agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Swiftnet, a leading telecom tower portfolio in South Africa, from Telkom for around US$355 million.
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Capacity's Saf Malik is joined by a panel of guests to discuss the disruption to African internet caused by the Red Sea and West Coast cable cuts.
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Somalia’s Hormuud Telecom has unveiled new 5G infrastructure which is now commercially available across the country.
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghana’s minister for communications and digitisation, has announced plans to licence satellite internet provider Starlink, less than one week after disruption to four subsea cables caused a major internet blackout in the country and across West and Central Africa.
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CMC Networks has deployed satellite connectivity across Africa and the Middle East to keep African businesses connected during subsea cable outages.
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Bayobab Group, as part of the 2Africa consortium, confirms the landing of the 45,000km 2Africa subsea cable in Ghana and Nigeria.
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IHS Towers and Airtel Africa will expand their partnership through their Nigerian subsidiaries.
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Global Independent Connect Limited (GICL), a subsidiary of IHS Holding, has completed the rollout of more than 10,000km of fibre optic cables across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
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Parallel Wireless has partnered with Hotspot Networks, a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, to extend coverage to previously unconnected rural sites throughout Nigeria.
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Olusegun Ogunsanya (pictured) will retire as CEO of Airtel Africa this year, with Sunil Taldar stepping up to take the top job.
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center3, a wholly owned subsidiary of the stc Group, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CMC Networks, a global service provider offering market leading networking solutions across Africa and the Middle East.
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MTN Group and NEC XON have successfully deployed Africa's first 400G optical transponder solution - Phoenix.
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Onix’s carrier-neutral, colocation Tier IV data centre in Accra, Ghana, is joining the Angola Cables Global Data Centre Interconnect network.
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Raxio Data Centres confirms the launch of its newest facility in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The announcement of JINX comes as numerous service providers begin striking agreements with Equinix ahead of a new US$160 million Johannesburg data centre opening.
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WIOCC has launched its latest venture which it describes as the first “truly holistic managed network and infrastructure services company” to serve Africa.
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Sparkle confirms the expansion of its network footprint to South Africa with the opening of two new points of presence (PoPs) in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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MainOne, an Equinix company, confirms the launch of its open access, carrier-neutral, Tier III data centre, AB1.2, in VITIB, Grand Bassam, Cote d’Ivoire.
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Habsatou talks to Nadine Hawkins, editor at Capacity Media about her career journey and the challenges women in Cameroon face in the tech industry
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CMC Networks has partnered with Webber Wentzel, one of the Big Five law firms in South Africa to upgrade its network infrastructure across South Africa.
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What were the most important issues the industry discussed at the first ITW Africa event on the continent?
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Ike Nnamani, CEO, Medallion Data Centres, speaks to Capacity ahead of ITW Africa
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Ahead of the inaugural ITW Africa event, senior reporter Saf Malik is joined by Ayotunde Coker, CEO, Open Access Data Centres.
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Africa Mobile Networks unique business has seen strong growth and helped connect Africa’s unconnected
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Following reports that Google intends to fast-track the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa, Capacity explores if AI will thrive on the continent.
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Safaricom Ethiopia’s mobile money service M-PESA is now live for Android users in the country, with an iOS version set to follow.
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The Gaborone Metro Ring will empower businesses and economic growth
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MTN Ghana will invest US$1 billion to expand and improve its network by 2025.
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For this episode of The C-Suite Hotseat, Natalie Bannerman, deputy editor of Capacity Media is joined by Matteo Gatta, CEO of BICS.
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Satellite connectivity currently represents around 1% of the total telco ecosystem – but it’s an important 1%.
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Ethio Telecom’s revenue is expected to rise by 19% in 2023/2024
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When 27-year-old South African Ruan Crouse isn’t riding motorcycles or competing in national squash competitions, he’s busy helping field technicians learn how to safely climb Africa’s telecom towers.
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A third request for qualifications has just been launched
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Covering a continent’s worth of connectivity in three days is a tough ask – but that’s what the ITW Africa agenda will try to do. There have been several interesting developments, projects and focus areas in the African telecoms and connectivity market in 2023 – here are just five of them in areas that ITW Africa will address in September.
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Anwar Soussa will step down two years after launching Ethiopia’s second mobile network
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DE-CIX, ‘Internet pour tous’ and UNITED SA confirm that the Africa Congo Internet Exchange (ACIX) is now live.
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The US Government (USG), through the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has announced plans to build a $300 million data centre in Ghana.
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Samuel Ndungu, CFO of WIOCC, tells Saf Malik about the key investment and revenue growth opportunities there are in connecting Africa with the rest of the world.
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Bayobab, formerly known as MTN GlobalConnect, announced a strategic pan-African connectivity partnership with Microsoft.
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wingu.africa (Wingu) has signed several new strategic customer partnerships, facilitated by the addition of colocation whitespace across all its facilities.
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Liquid Dataport has partnered with Icosnet to enable its customers to access digital communication services offered by Liquid Dataport in Algeria.
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The Kenyan government has started a project to build a 100,000km national fibre network.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Zambia to provide connectivity to all Zambians.
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The president of Tanzania has told a government-owned telco to stop competing with others and focus on broadband services.
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Cassava Technologies’ Liquid C2 has opened a cyber security centre in Zambia, its third in Africa.
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M-Pesa, the pioneering mobile money platform run by Safaricom and the Vodacom group, is now run from a cloud operations centre in Kenya.
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South African operator Cell C is looking for a new CEO following the resignation of Douglas Craigie Stevenson.