Liquid Intelligent Technologies
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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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The Gaborone Metro Ring will empower businesses and economic growth
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies confirms the installion of the Mauritius Telecom T3 subsea cable connecting Mauritius to South Africa.
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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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Cassava Technologies’ Liquid C2 has opened a cyber security centre in Zambia, its third in Africa.
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Adel Hamed has left his role as CEO of Telecom Egypt, after four years in the role.
Forthcoming events
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has moved into the cyber security market in Egypt, by acquiring Cysiv MEA, a technology company headquartered in Cairo.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Microsoft’s Airband Initiative have pledged to bring connectivity to 20 million underserved people in Africa by 2025.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has deployed Nokia’s transport network technology on its new terrestrial fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya to Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Cassava Technologies has started work on a new 15MW data centre in Nairobi.
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Data centre operator Verne Global has hired Liquid Intelligent Technologies’ CFO Kate Hennessy plus a new chief operating officer from the banking industry.
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The group that owns Africa Data Centres (ADC) and Liquid Intelligent Technologies has set up a cyber security centre in Kenya.
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South Sudan and Djibouti have signed a memorandum of understanding to connect their two countries with fibre.
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Eutelsat and Liquid Intelligent Technologies have signed a multi-year, multi-beam agreement for capacity on the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite.
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Africa Data Centres (ADC) has collected the first US$83 million of investment from the US government, money that will go to building data centres in South Africa.
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Giovanni Da Costa has moved from China Mobile International to Vodacom, to be executive head of carrier connectivity.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies confirms that it is to acquire Telrad, an Israeli-based technology company, for an undisclosed sum.
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ZOL Zimbabwe has followed the rest of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies by renaming its home connectivity company as Liquid Home Zimbabwe.
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Connectivity in Africa is set for a boost over the mid-term as two satellite developments deliver new connections and services across the continent.
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Europe’s Colt and Africa’s Liquid Intelligent Technologies have become the latest carriers to speed the move away from the conventional telephone network.
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Liquid Telecom began as a carrier providing services across Africa. Now, CEO Nic Rudnick tells Alan Burkitt-Gray why they’ve changed the name to reflect the group’s new business.
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Africa Data Centres (ADC) is building a 10MW data centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Liquid Telecom, which this week changed its name, has expanded its terrestrial fibre network to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the first time.
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African carrier Liquid Telecom has become Liquid Intelligent Technologies to show that it is now a one-stop-shop technology group.
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IFC, part of the World Bank Group, is to loan US$3 million to the Kyrgyz Republic's largest private wholesale broadband operator, its first investment in the country.
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Liquid Telecom has completed one of the largest dollar bond sales by an African telecoms company, raising US$840 million.
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Liquid Telecom is to raise US$820 million in a bond and term loan financing package to refinance the group’s existing debt and to support its growth strategy.
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The regulator in Lesotho in south-eastern Africa is in the middle of a battle with the country’s biggest operator, an offshoot of South Africa’s Vodacom.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world
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The US is investing US$300m in Liquid Telecom’s Africa Data Centres (ADC), to fund expansion in South Africa and Kenya as well as new builds and acquisitions elsewhere.
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Liquid Telecom is to build a data centre in the Nigerian city of Lagos, to be run by a new CEO for the company’s operations in the country.
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Econet, which owns African wholesale network Liquid Telecom, is to use laser beams to carry traffic through the air where fibres are impractical.
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UK development finance and impact investor, the CDC Group has announced an additional $40 million equity investment into Liquid Telecom.
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Liquid Telecom South Africa has appointed Deon Geyser as its new CEO, effective as of 1 January 2021.
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Liquid Telecom has rebranded its South African operations in what it calls a “strategic repositioning”.
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Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe’s richest man and founder & chairman of Econet is reportedly struggling to sell a stake in Liquid Telecom due to the effects of Covid-19.
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South Africa’s regulator is about to invite telcos to apply for spectrum to offer 5G services, replacing the temporary spectrum awarded in April.
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Intelsat has extended its internet connectivity partnership with Liquid Telecom.
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Africa’s first live 5G network supporting both mobile and fixed wireless services has gone live in the South African cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town following a two-year network modernisation project.
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There were 2,416,135 cases of people infected with Covid-19 and 165,939 dead, as of 20 April, 12:35 (BST).
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Liquid Telecom partners Internet Solutions to develop high-speed connectivity for businesses in order to fuel digital transformation.
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South African operator Vodacom is to launch 5G services in its home country this year, CEO Shameel Joosub said this morning.