Africa
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is continuing to expand in Africa, launching a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Ghana. -
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) unveiled plans to expand its service in Kenya with the launch of LINX Mombasa to extend its growing network on the continent.
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The mobile industry’s contribution to Sub-Saharan Africa's GDP is projected to reach $170 billion by 2030, provided that challenges such as connectivity gaps and energy costs are resolved, according to a new GSMA report.
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Angola Cables has launched a European subsidiary, TelCables Europe, to bring its digital solutions to customers across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Sofibanque, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) biggest banks, is leveraging co-location services at the OADC Kinshasa data centre site.
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RETN has issued a stark warning that the impact of the February 2024 cable cuts in the Red Sea, which were originally reported to have affected 25% of Europe-Asia data traffic, was severely underestimated.
Forthcoming events
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MTN has added west Africa’s Côte d’Ivoire to the list of countries where it is working with Canadian infrastructure supplier NuRAN Wireless
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As Raxio expands in Africa amid major investment in the region, CFO Marco Angelino discusses the data centre operator’s future there with Capacity
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Namibian telecom operator Mobile Telecommunications limited (MTC) has deployed 475km of fibre optic backbone for its telecom sites in the framework of a N$100 million project that will reduce congestion across its network.
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SmartCIC has expanded its fixed-line connectivity and field service solutions across 32 African countries.
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Safaricom Ethiopia is to challenge incumbent operator Ethio Telecom with its own mobile money platform, M-Pesa.
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American Tower Corporation (ATC) and Airtel Africa have entered a multi-year, multi-product agreement which will see the two work together on new sites and product development capabilities across Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda.
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Africell has appointed Godfrey Efeurhobo as group chief commercial officer to accelerate growth in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and to strengthen market leadership in Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
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Delivering on its US$1 billion pledge to Africa, Google confirms its intention to establish a Google Cloud region in South Africa.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has switched on its mobile telecommunications network and services in Addis Ababa, the country’s capital city.
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The government of Kenya has bought the 60% of Telkom Kenya it did not already own by wiring the purchase price to London-based Helios Investment Partners.
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More than a decade after South Sudan won independence from Sudan, local operations of Zain and MTN are continuing to pay licence fees to the government of Sudan.
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Nigerian operators are threatening to cut off banks providing mobile financial services because they say they have not paid their bill.
