Africa
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Rack Centre’s new 12MW LGS2 data centre in Lagos, Nigeria, has come online, with the firm touting it as hyperscale and AI-ready. -
AFR-IX Telecom has secured a €14.3 million grant from the European Commission to extend the Medusa Subsea Cable System into West Africa.
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Orange Africa and Middle East (OMEA) and Eutelsat have partnered to expand satellite broadband access across Africa and the Middle East.
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e& has become the first operator in the Middle East and Africa to deploy Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) on its optical network.
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PTCL invested $59.5 million in Africa-1 submarine cable to strengthen Pakistan’s digital future
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CFK Africa, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth in Kenya’s informal settlements, is witnessing severe disruption following the abrupt withdrawal of support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Raxio Group has appointed Robert Skjødt as its new chief executive officer (CEO).
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Orange has partnered with OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune their open source AI models to support regional languages in Africa, including Wolof and Pulaar.
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The potential for AI in Africa is already being realised through several use cases. But how careful does the continent need to tread with its development?
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MTN Group has officially launched 5G networks in Benin and the Republic of Congo, a significant milestone in its mission to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions across Africa.
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The relentless pace of AI shows no signs of slowing down going into 2025. However, the increased demand for intense workloads has created new challenges such as increased power consumption in high-density data centres.
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Swedish telecom technology provider Telness Tech has partnered with VAS2Nets and Lebara to launch a new mobile operator in Nigeria.
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is continuing to expand in Africa, launching a new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Ghana.
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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.
