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.
Forthcoming events
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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