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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Africa Data Centres (ADC) has broken ground on the expansion of its Samrand facility in South Africa.
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Equatorial Guinea appears to have narrowly averted losing one of its main subsea connections to the global telecoms infrastructure, by a matter of hours.
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Mobile operators in Zambia have set up a trade association to lobby the government on the industry’s behalf.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has begun a large-scale customer pilot of its network in the city of Dire Dawa, 350km east of Addis Ababa, the capital.
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The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) will introduce Malcel as the third operator in the country.
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AMS-IX, one of the largest internet exchange operators in the world and Equinix-owned MainData Nigeria have signed an MoU to operate and grow internet exchange services in Africa.
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Helios Towers’ revenue rose around 25% from US$212.4 million to US$265.4 million for the first half of 2022.
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Seacom will be able to secure its own infrastructure, deliver new networking, security and communications solutions to enterprise customers in Africa thanks to a new partnership with BT.
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Michael Joseph, founder of Kenya’s Safaricom and its pioneering mobile money venture M-Pesa, has flown north to Addis Ababa to supervise the troubled launch of its Ethiopian offshoot.
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Ethiopia’s continuing civil war is the reason the company achieved only 87.6% of its target revenue in the year ending 30 June 2022, Ethio Telecom said at the weekend.
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African operator MTN is to expand its rural network in Sudan via a US$125 million network-as-a-service (NaaS) contract with Canadian infrastructure company NuRAN.
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Orange reported declining revenues in Europe as a result of increased competition within the telecoms space, it said in its latest financial results.
