Liquid Intelligent Technologies
-
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.
-
The Gaborone Metro Ring will empower businesses and economic growth
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies confirms the installion of the Mauritius Telecom T3 subsea cable connecting Mauritius to South Africa.
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Zambia to provide connectivity to all Zambians.
-
Cassava Technologies’ Liquid C2 has opened a cyber security centre in Zambia, its third in Africa.
-
Adel Hamed has left his role as CEO of Telecom Egypt, after four years in the role.
Forthcoming events
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has moved into the cyber security market in Egypt, by acquiring Cysiv MEA, a technology company headquartered in Cairo.
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Microsoft’s Airband Initiative have pledged to bring connectivity to 20 million underserved people in Africa by 2025.
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has deployed Nokia’s transport network technology on its new terrestrial fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya to Johannesburg, South Africa.
-
Cassava Technologies has started work on a new 15MW data centre in Nairobi.
-
Data centre operator Verne Global has hired Liquid Intelligent Technologies’ CFO Kate Hennessy plus a new chief operating officer from the banking industry.
-
The group that owns Africa Data Centres (ADC) and Liquid Intelligent Technologies has set up a cyber security centre in Kenya.
-
South Sudan and Djibouti have signed a memorandum of understanding to connect their two countries with fibre.
-
Eutelsat and Liquid Intelligent Technologies have signed a multi-year, multi-beam agreement for capacity on the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite.
-
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.
-
Giovanni Da Costa has moved from China Mobile International to Vodacom, to be executive head of carrier connectivity.
-
Liquid Intelligent Technologies confirms that it is to acquire Telrad, an Israeli-based technology company, for an undisclosed sum.
-
ZOL Zimbabwe has followed the rest of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies by renaming its home connectivity company as Liquid Home Zimbabwe.
-
Connectivity in Africa is set for a boost over the mid-term as two satellite developments deliver new connections and services across the continent.
-
Europe’s Colt and Africa’s Liquid Intelligent Technologies have become the latest carriers to speed the move away from the conventional telephone network.
-
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.
-
Africa Data Centres (ADC) is building a 10MW data centre in Lagos, Nigeria.
-
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.
-
African carrier Liquid Telecom has become Liquid Intelligent Technologies to show that it is now a one-stop-shop technology group.
-
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.
-
Liquid Telecom has completed one of the largest dollar bond sales by an African telecoms company, raising US$840 million.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world
-
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.
-
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.
-
Econet, which owns African wholesale network Liquid Telecom, is to use laser beams to carry traffic through the air where fibres are impractical.
-
UK development finance and impact investor, the CDC Group has announced an additional $40 million equity investment into Liquid Telecom.
-
Liquid Telecom South Africa has appointed Deon Geyser as its new CEO, effective as of 1 January 2021.
-
Liquid Telecom has rebranded its South African operations in what it calls a “strategic repositioning”.
-
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.
-
South Africa’s regulator is about to invite telcos to apply for spectrum to offer 5G services, replacing the temporary spectrum awarded in April.
-
Intelsat has extended its internet connectivity partnership with Liquid Telecom.
-
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.
-
There were 2,416,135 cases of people infected with Covid-19 and 165,939 dead, as of 20 April, 12:35 (BST).
-
Liquid Telecom partners Internet Solutions to develop high-speed connectivity for businesses in order to fuel digital transformation.
-
South African operator Vodacom is to launch 5G services in its home country this year, CEO Shameel Joosub said this morning.
-
African wholesale operator Liquid Telecom is adding a 5G wireless network to its existing fibre offering in South Africa.
-
Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has today launched the fastest direct land-based fibre link connecting East to West Africa via the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
-
South Africa’s pension fund for government employees is likely to take a stake in a Liquid Telecom share offer, according to reports.
-
Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom will implement and operate South Sudan’s first fibre broadband network.
-
New fibre capabilities being unlocked by Liquid Telecom are providing Africa with access to powerful systems. CEO Nic Rudnick talks about the benefits this will bring and how Liquid Telecom plans to address the challenges that come with more connectivity.
-
Liquid Telecom Kenya, part of part African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has entered into a two-year partnership with Nokia to upgrade its existing fibre network.
-
Liquid Telecom has made Microsoft Azure across its 70,000km pan-African network, stretching via a direct terrestrial high-speed fibre link across the continent.
-
Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has appointed Dennis Keko Kahindi as chief executive officer (CEO) of Liquid Telecom Uganda.
-
Liquid Telecom has appointed Susan M’kandawire Mulikita as CEO of Liquid Telecom Zambia to accelerate growth and market penetration across the country.
-
A rescue bid for the former Etisalat Nigeria – now 9mobile – appears to have collapsed following a breakdown of relations with Teleology Holdings, which planned a takeover.
-
Liquid Telecom has appointed Mohamed Abdel Bassit as its new regional CEO for the Middle East and West Africa (MEWA).
-
Egypt has unveiled plans to replace up to 95% of its copper telecoms network with fibre by 2020 in a major overhaul to the nation’s infrastructure.