Africa
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Nokia is working with iSAT Africa to improve rural connectivity in Liberia.
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Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of Open Access Data Centres, speaks on edge deployment in Africa.
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DjIX rebranded as AMS-IX Djibouti, aims to boost regional connectivity
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ITW Africa: Broadband Telecom (BTI), a Bankai Group company, has revealed an exclusive partnership with Togo Cellular and Telma Madagascar, both subsidiaries of AXIAN Telecom.
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At the opening of ITW 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u, PhD, cabinet secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy, outlined the country’s bold digital transformation strategy.
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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?
Forthcoming events
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Orange Liberia has collaborated with ZTE to complete the build of new communication sites called RuralPilot EcoSites, boosting network coverage in rural areas of Liberia.
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Raxio Group has inaugurated its new data centre in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking the country’s largest data centre, with Tier III accreditation by Uptime Institute,
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Today, Africa represents just 2.5% of the global artificial intelligence (AI) market, but emerging applications could boost the continent’s economic growth by US$2.9 trillion by 2030 according to AI4D Africa.
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Netherlands-based Africa-focused data centre operator PAIX Data Centres has expanded the capacity of its site in Accra, Ghana to 1.2MW.
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MTN is planning the construction of its largest West African data centre, according to several reports.
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WIOCC Group has secured a financing package from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Proparco.
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Cassava Technologies subsidiary Africa Data Centres has agreed a bespoke financing solution with South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) that will see 20MW of additional capacity deployed.
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Sparkle will team with Telecom Namibia for the provision of capacity services on the Equiano subsea cable connecting Portugal to South Africa, in order to boost Namibia’s digital transformation journey.
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Google has announced the first ever fibre optic route to directly connect Africa with Australia.
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CMC Networks has launched its CMC Cloud solution to deliver high-performance edge computing across Africa.
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Paratus Group, a Pan-African network provider, has announced a new fibre express route running from Johannesburg to Europe.
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CMC Networks has launched its Air Connect solution to deliver wireless connectivity to businesses across South Africa.
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Almost two weeks on from the undersea cable cuts that have blighted connectivity in 12 African countries, the Nigerian Communications Commission demands action.
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Guoyu Wang, vice president of Huawei Smart Transportation BU, sheds light on Huawei's recent activity across Southern African rail networks.
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Actis has agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Swiftnet, a leading telecom tower portfolio in South Africa, from Telkom for around US$355 million.
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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.
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Somalia’s Hormuud Telecom has unveiled new 5G infrastructure which is now commercially available across the country.
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Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Ghana’s minister for communications and digitisation, has announced plans to licence satellite internet provider Starlink, less than one week after disruption to four subsea cables caused a major internet blackout in the country and across West and Central 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.
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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
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Ahead of the inaugural ITW Africa event, senior reporter Saf Malik is joined by Ayotunde Coker, CEO, Open Access Data Centres.
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Africa Mobile Networks unique business has seen strong growth and helped connect Africa’s unconnected
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Following reports that Google intends to fast-track the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa, Capacity explores if AI will thrive on the continent.
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Safaricom Ethiopia’s mobile money service M-PESA is now live for Android users in the country, with an iOS version set to follow.
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The Gaborone Metro Ring will empower businesses and economic growth
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MTN Ghana will invest US$1 billion to expand and improve its network by 2025.
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For this episode of The C-Suite Hotseat, Natalie Bannerman, deputy editor of Capacity Media is joined by Matteo Gatta, CEO of BICS.
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Satellite connectivity currently represents around 1% of the total telco ecosystem – but it’s an important 1%.
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Ethio Telecom’s revenue is expected to rise by 19% in 2023/2024
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When 27-year-old South African Ruan Crouse isn’t riding motorcycles or competing in national squash competitions, he’s busy helping field technicians learn how to safely climb Africa’s telecom towers.
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A third request for qualifications has just been launched
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Covering a continent’s worth of connectivity in three days is a tough ask – but that’s what the ITW Africa agenda will try to do. There have been several interesting developments, projects and focus areas in the African telecoms and connectivity market in 2023 – here are just five of them in areas that ITW Africa will address in September.
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Anwar Soussa will step down two years after launching Ethiopia’s second mobile network
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DE-CIX, ‘Internet pour tous’ and UNITED SA confirm that the Africa Congo Internet Exchange (ACIX) is now live.
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The US Government (USG), through the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has announced plans to build a $300 million data centre in Ghana.
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Samuel Ndungu, CFO of WIOCC, tells Saf Malik about the key investment and revenue growth opportunities there are in connecting Africa with the rest of the world.
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Bayobab, formerly known as MTN GlobalConnect, announced a strategic pan-African connectivity partnership with Microsoft.
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wingu.africa (Wingu) has signed several new strategic customer partnerships, facilitated by the addition of colocation whitespace across all its facilities.
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Liquid Dataport has partnered with Icosnet to enable its customers to access digital communication services offered by Liquid Dataport in Algeria.
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The Kenyan government has started a project to build a 100,000km national fibre network.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Zambia to provide connectivity to all Zambians.
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The president of Tanzania has told a government-owned telco to stop competing with others and focus on broadband services.
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Cassava Technologies’ Liquid C2 has opened a cyber security centre in Zambia, its third in Africa.
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M-Pesa, the pioneering mobile money platform run by Safaricom and the Vodacom group, is now run from a cloud operations centre in Kenya.
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South African operator Cell C is looking for a new CEO following the resignation of Douglas Craigie Stevenson.
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Guinea has enlisted the help of MTN to bring back a state-owned operator that was declared bankrupt in 2012.
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Israeli satellite operator Spacecom is working with an Azerbaijani satellite company to extend services into Africa.
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MTN GlobalConnect and BICS have renewed its partnership on international mobility and connectivity in Africa.
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Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has called on mobile network operators to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Seacom has gone live on the Equiano subsea cable following the cable’s landing in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2022.
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An industry veteran and one of the few female CEOs in telecoms, Ineke Botter has held integral roles in the build-out of Europe’s mobile ecosystem – a story which she tells in her new book, Your Phone, My Life.
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An Egyptian venture capital firm has launched a US$95 million fund for technology start-ups in north, west and east Africa.
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Bill Barney, former CEO of Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has been appointed to the board of IXAfrica.
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wingu.africa is operating in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Somaliland delivering its carrier-neutral data centre facilities.
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The European Union’s investment bank is to support the company building a new network for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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South African mobile commerce company Blue Label Telecoms wants to increase its stake in mobile operator Cell C from 49.5%, but not yet.
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Telkom, South Africa’s incumbent operator, wants to sell a minority stake in Openserve, its wholesale last-mile fibre unit.
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MTN is to spend the equivalent of US$1 billion on expanding operations in Ghana over the next five years.
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MTN Group has deployed EXFO’s Context dynamic topology solution in 14 African countries as part of MTN’s digital transformation initiative, targeting improved network inventory, security and performance functions.
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The government of Ethiopia has increased the stake it plans to sell in Ethio Telecom by five percentage points from 40% to 45%.
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Tizeti, the West African solar-based internet service provider, is launching its 4G LTE network in 10 new states in Nigeria.
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The Central African Republic is now connected to a backbone fibre linking it to neighbouring countries, via its own 935km fibre.
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The government of Rwanda is to end the right of a local company, part-owned by Korea Telecom (KT), to provide wholesale 4G services to other operators
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iColo: a Digital Realty company confirms the opening of its first data centre in Maputo, Mozambique (MPM1).
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Ethio Telecom, the state-owned incumbent in Ethiopia, has started a project to encourage start-up technology companies.
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The first phase of OADC Kinshasa; FIH1, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s first open-access, carrier-neutral data centre, will become operational in Q2 2023.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies has deployed Nokia’s transport network technology on its new terrestrial fibre route connecting Mombasa, Kenya to Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The Coalition for Digital Africa, set up in December 2022, is to work with leading internet organisations to strengthen the digital infrastructure across Africa.
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The Telecel group does not plan to fire staff at Vodafone Ghana, which it acquired last month for a reported US$900 million.
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Kenya’s tax authority is to install its own technology so it can track and tax voice, internet and SMS traffic.
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The government of the republic of Niger is abolishing the tax on the termination of incoming international traffic.
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South Africa’s Telkom is to offer wholesale capacity on its mobile network to virtual network operators, the company said this week.
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Cassava Technologies has started work on a new 15MW data centre in Nairobi.
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Eutelsat has passed the 200,000-user mark for its Konnect Wifi hotspots has been reached.
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South African operators Telkom and Rain have terminated discussions about a potential merger that would have seen them compete more strongly with MTN and Vodacom.
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Ethiopia’s incumbent operator Ethio Telecom has restored services in 27 towns and cities in the province of Tigray, following the suspension of the civil war.
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Airtel Nigeria has purchased 100MHz of spectrum in the 3500MHz band and 2x5MHz of 2600MHz from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for US$316.7 million.
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Safaricom Ethiopia has expanded to five additional cities, bringing its national footprint to 21 cities just three months after launching on 6 October.
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A London-based asset management group, Gemcorp, has won a deal from the government of Angola to manage, renovate and expand state-owned Angola Telecom’s networks.
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Vantage Data Centers has announced it has commenced construction on a second campus in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Equinix has unveiled plans to enter the South African market with a US$160 million data centre investment in Johannesburg.
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After becoming Vertiv’s president for EMEA, Karsten Winther faced several threats to the company’s progress. But he tells Saf Malik that the company is now well-positioned to face the future
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Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has revealed that its flagship data centre in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria is now operational.
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MTN Zambia has launched its first 5G network pilot platform in the country, promising faster connectivity speed, ultra-low latency and greater bandwidth.
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Africa Data Centres will build its first data centre in Kigali, Rwanda.
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An estimated US$5-6 billion will be invested in carrier-neutral data centres in Africa in the next three to five years according to Console Connect’s Africa Interconnection report.
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A new state-owned company, Uganda Telecommunications Corporation (UTCL), has taken over the assets of incumbent operator Uganda Telecom.
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The group that owns Africa Data Centres (ADC) and Liquid Intelligent Technologies has set up a cyber security centre in Kenya.
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Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has secured a US$20 million loan from Finnish development financier Finnfund and investor BlueOrchard Finance to expand its network in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
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The government of Ethiopia has revived its plans to sell a 40% stake in its state-owned operator, Ethio Telecom.
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Ethiopia’s telecoms regulator has revived its plan to seek a competitor for state-owned Ethio Telecom and new rival Safaricom, which has been in business just months.
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Orange Botswana is the first Orange affiliate to launch commercial 5G, with a coverage of 30% of the population, the operator says.
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IXAfrica and Helios Investment Partners have announced a US$50 million growth capital investment into IXAfrica’s Nairobi campus.
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Orange and Vanu have entered into a partnership that will allow the two to provide enhanced connectivity to rural areas.
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Digital Realty-owned Teraco has commenced construction on a new hyperscale data centre with 30MW of critical power load at its Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg.
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IHS Towers is borrowing US$600 million for three years, though it expects to use only $370 million of it.
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Teraco has completed the first phase of JB4, its new hyperscale data centre addition to the Bredell Campus in South Africa.
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Vertiv confirms the installation of Hormuud Telecom’s subsea cable landing station (CLS) in Somalia.
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Frontier Optical Networks is the first broadband network to be connected to the new LINX Nairobi interconnection hub, IXAfrica.
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The government of Angola has taken over the 50% of Unitel that it did not already own.
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CMC Networks confirms the availability of IP Premier, a dedicated internet access (DIA) solution in 51 countries across Africa.
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Globe Telecom in the Philippines is starting work on registering the SIM cards of over 87 million customers, as Kenyan telcos report similar rules are slowing growth.
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NTT has opened its latest data centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, its first on the continent.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced that it will auction two lots of 100MHz in the 3.5GHz spectrum band as it looks to accelerate 5G deployment in the country.
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IHS Towers has announced plans to extend its Project Green in order to reduce its carbon footprint at a cost of US$214 million in capital expenditure between now and 2024.
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Safaricom says it plans to invest US$300 million a year into Ethiopia over the next ten years, having already invested US1.2 billion in the country.
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Airtel Africa’s Tanzanian subsidiary Airtel Tanzania has purchased 140MHz of additional spectrum spread across the 2600MHz and 3500MHz bands from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) for a cash sum of US$60.1 million.
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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.
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Raxio has kicked off construction on its Tier III carrier-neutral data centre, located at Beluluane Industrial Park (MozParks) in Maputo, Mozambique.
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Ethio Telecom is aiming to increase its subscriber base by more than 10% over the next year, despite facing competition from Safaricom Ethiopia.
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South Sudan and Djibouti have signed a memorandum of understanding to connect their two countries with fibre.
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WIOCC Group company Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced the deployment of three further edge data centres in South Africa.
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Safaricom Ethiopia, which started pilot services last month, is to build the company’s third new data centre.
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Eutelsat and Liquid Intelligent Technologies have signed a multi-year, multi-beam agreement for capacity on the EUTELSAT KONNECT satellite.
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Raxio has broken ground on the construction of the first Tier III carrier neutral colocation data centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), located at 12eme, Limete, Kinshasa.
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Jean-Luc Vuillemin, Orange’s executive vice-president of international networks discusses Africa’s potential and appetite for collaborations between satellite operators and telcos with Saf Malik
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Africa Data Centres has partnered with Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) formed as part of its widescale expansion across Africa.
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The World Bank is investing US$160 million into the Safaricom project to build a new network in Ethiopia.
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Vodacom Tanzania, part of Vodafone Group, confirms the launch of the country's first ever 5G mobile network.
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Microsoft has appointed Kunle to lead its Africa transformation office, which drives its strategic digital initiatives in the continent.
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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.
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Nigerian customers of SpaceX’s Starlink service will pay only US$99 for their starter kit, only a sixth of the $599 that US customers have to pay.
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Hurricane Electric has deployed a new point of presence at the iColo data centre in Mombasa, MBA One.
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Malawi has set up its first National Data Centre, to provide big data, artificial intelligence, digital financial services and the internet of things (IoT).
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Vantage Data Centres has announced the opening of its first facility on its Johannesburg campus.
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Telecom Namibia will invest US$134 million into its infrastructure as it looks to address an urgent need to promote and invest in digital infrastructure in the country.
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South Africa’s MTN is in talks to buy its domestic rival Telkom, the operator revealed in an announcement earlier today.
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State-owned electricity company Kenya Power is to compete with Safaricom and other operators to offer fixed internet services.
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Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia will start launching services between next month and April 2023, the company announced today in Addis Ababa, the capital.
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Africa’s MTN group has announced three new CEOs, all of them women, and two of them CEOs for the first time. They take up their posts on 1 September.
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Safaricom has delayed the launch of services in Ethiopia, originally expected in April, and is not yet giving a new date.
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The Nigerian regulator has criticised mobile operators’ coverage of the country, while urging victors in a recent auction to start rolling out 5G services on the 3.5GHz spectrum in August.
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South African telco Cell C is planning to deploy 5G in the country imminently, its chief technology officer Schalk Visser revealed to local press.
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WIOCC's data centre venture will have 100 live edge data centres in its portfolio by the end of this year, following confirmation that nine new edge facilities are now in the works.
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The EllaLink international submarine cable recently went live in Praia, Cape Verde.
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Africa Data Centres, part of the Cassava Technologies Group, has announced plans to build a 30MW data centre facility in Accra, Ghana.
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Data centre operator Vantage is to use 87MW of solar power for its new Johannesburg campus, which is due to open next month.
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Internet usage patterns in majority Muslim countries changed drastically as they observed Ramadan according to research from Ookla.
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Airtel Africa has bought additional spectrum worth around US$42 million in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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DE-CIX is setting up interconnection platforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Libya and Nigeria as the start of a plan to expand through Africa.
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Regulators in Nigeria and Mozambique have approved the start of broadband satellite services via Starlink, part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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African operator MTN is to sell BT’s business solutions to its customers under a deal between the two companies which also affects MTN’s wholesale relationship.
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Colt has selected connectivity provider Nour Global to provide MPLS and internet services across the Middle East.
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Senegalese telco Free has entered into a five-year partnership with Avanti Communications to build and host a new satellite gateway in Senegal.
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Djibouti Telecom confirms the landing of the 2Africa subsea cable in Djibouti.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Two of South Africa’s fibre infrastructure companies are to come under unified control.
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An African investment group has increased its stake in South African broadband internet provider MetroFibre Networx to 37%, making it the biggest shareholder.
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5G upload speeds that support enterprise applications are disappointing according to Cellsmart’s Global Cellular Performance study.
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Flexential and Angola Cables are to extend the reach of the Monet cable to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Ethiopia’s state-owned operator has introduced a limited 5G service into the capital city, Addis Ababa.
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ZOL Zimbabwe has followed the rest of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies by renaming its home connectivity company as Liquid Home Zimbabwe.
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Vodafone Group’s Safaricom Ethiopia is launching the country’s first competitive network in the face of a blazing civil war. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks the company’s Matthew Harrison-Harvey how they’re managing to do it
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Zimbabwe state-owned operator TelOne has opened a data centre in the city of Bulawayo, as part of its national broadband plan.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Kasi Cloud Ltd. yesterday broke ground on the first of its planned data centre campuses across Nigeria.
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Ethio Telecom and new rival Safaricom Ethiopia are close to a deal on infrastructure sharing and interconnection.
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Three African operators are planning to uprade a terrestrial fibre link connecting from Port-Sudan on the Red Sea in Sudan to Kribi on the Atlantic Ocean in Cameroon via Chad.
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Ethiopia’s Amhara Bank has signed an agreement with Ethio Telecom to use the incumbent operator’s data centres to improve service to customers.
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Ethiopia’s new competitive telecoms operator has missed its deadline for launch, and is not giving any information about a new date.
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Operators in Nigeria have blocked access to 73 million customers, in a security clamp-down by the federal government.
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Ciudad Infrastructure, which runs OneData Nigeria, has signed up with TIM’s Sparkle for international connectivity.
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MTN GlobalConnect has acquired MTN Business Kenya, allowing it to expand its digital wholesale and infrastructure services into the Kenyan market.
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Hormuud Telecom has today been awarded with the country’s first Mobile Money Certification by the global mobile network operators’ industry body, GSMA for its EVC Plus product.
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Raxio Group is to build and operate what it has described as a "metro edge" colocation data centre in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Drawing on its years-long work connecting clients through data centres, WIOCC has launched its own venture, leveraging its network to build the cloud infrastructure Africa needs. CEO Chris Wood shares the details with Melanie Mingas
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Tizeti, a West African solar-based internet service provider, has partnered with Microsoft to deploy high-speed Airband internet infrastructure in Oyo State, Nigeria.
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The government of Ethiopia has postponed its sale of 40% of state-controlled Ethio Telecom, blaming “recent developments and fast-moving macroeconomic changes”.
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New deals, markets and people gave Digital Realty a bumper year-end. Recently appointed president Andrew Power tells Melanie Mingas how it all fits into the firm’s wider strategy
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South African operator MTN is to modernise its network in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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At the start of the year, Capacity reported on news that the marine installation of the Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) subsea cable system, was completed.
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Kenyan operator Safaricom is to use Intelsat satellites to expand LTE coverage to more subscribers across the country
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Safaricom Ethiopia, the new telecoms operator that will compete with Ethio Telecom from April, has signed a dark fibre agreement with the nation’s electricity grid company
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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Airtel Africa has extended its memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Helios Towers and will not be renewing its agreement with the telco in Chad.
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The economic potential of unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band could add up to US$187.63 billion to the Indonesian economy, and up an accumulated $150.19 billion to the economies of Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has said it has registered six participants for its spectrum auction.
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African group MTN is following the example of the former Liquid Telecom and rebranding to reflect its status as a technology company.
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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400Gbps technologies are expected to drive service provider router market growth, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group.
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Global management consulting firm Bain & Company has published its 2022 Global M&A report which found that telecoms M&A experienced a dramatic rebound during 2021.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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South Africa’s spectrum auction will begin the public auction of its high frequency digital spectrum within a month, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
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Seacom will acquire selected infrastructure assets from Africell in Uganda as the company continues to expand its East African footprint.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid) and global cloud connectivity platform Teridion are partnering to bring reliable and fast internet connectivity to global customers.
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Ethio Telecom partnered with Subex for a new business assurance solution using the enterprise AI platform HyperSense.
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Satellite telecom operator YahClick is teaming up with an off-grid power company to expand its services in Africa.
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Télécoms sans Frontières, the industry’s charity focused on disaster relief, has sent a team to Madagascar, where Cyclone Batsirai has killed 96 people so far and damaged or destroyed the homes of 90,000.
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The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Is partnering with the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme (DAP) to promote digital inclusion in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
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MainOne has unveiled its Cloud Connect service to enable enterprises to adopt cloud technology by connecting businesses across the region to public cloud service providers.
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Public hearings are underway in South Africa today as the regulator garners industry feedback on its call termination regulations implemented in 2014.
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Airtel Africa, marked its membership of the FTSE 100 share listing this week with revenue up almost 25% and earnings up 34%.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
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Vodacom has partnered with Amdocs to create an African Centre of Excellence (COE).
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Safaricom, the new operator in Ethiopia, is gearing up for its launch in competition with Ethio Telecom by asking for partners in areas from network equipment to content.
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Ethio Telecom failed to reach its revenue target in the last half-year before it faces competition from Safaricom.
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Speaking at the Huawei webinar "5Grows Together: Innovation for a 5Gigaverse Society" on 13 January, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing, outlined how 5G is rapidly on the rise around the world, growing to over half a billion users since mobile operators started launching the technology two and a half years ago.
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Analysis from GlobalData claims that initial public offerings (IPOs) in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) space increased 72% last year when compared to 2020.
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Reconnecting Tonga; rebuffing KKR; digital investments down under; and BDx's Braham Singh
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IHS Towers has appointed a new VP and CEO to head its South Africa division.
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Bharti Airtel subsidiary Airtel Africa will join the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 on January 31, 2022.
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Eutelsat Communications (Eutelsat) and Intersat have signed a multi-year deal to provide internet connectivity in Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Senegal.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from iSIMs to aviation dramas.
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The 5G revolution may have started to arrive on Europe’s shores in terms of licences, network infrastructure, devices and services – but I can’t be alone in feeling a sense of déjà vu when reflecting on the current state of the rollout.
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The Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic (CAR) are being connected by a 285km sub-river fibre.
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Orange has teamed with Engie to convert the GOS, Orange’s main data centre in Africa to solar power.
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TIM's CEO tango; Colt's data centre drive; a cable called Medusa; and Host in Ireland's Garry Connolly
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Kenyans made 1.9 trillion mobile money transactions in the first 11 months of 2021, worth more than US$55 billion.
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HMN Tech has completed the marine installation of the Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) subsea cable system, with landfalls in both Senegal and Cape Verde.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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IBM confirms that Ana Paula Assis has been appointed general manager for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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Ethiopia has cancelled its plan to offer a new telecoms licence that would have brought a third company into the market, compete with Ethio Telecom and Safaricom.
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South African regulator ICASA has hit back at Telkom after it emerged that the operator is seeking a court order to prevent regulator ICASA from holding a spectrum auction in March.
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Airtel Africa confirms the first closing of the transaction to sell its telecoms tower assets in Tanzania for $176.1 million.
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#ICYMI - Capacity shares five key telecoms stories that were making headlines in December!
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Africa’s largest data centre services provider has joined the likes of Interxion and Ascenty to become a Digital Realty company.
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Airtel Africa confirms that Chimera Investment has investment $50 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC BV), through shares from one of its subsidiaries.
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IBM and Samsung Electronics have hailed a breakthrough in semiconductor design using a new vertical transistor architecture.
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Senegal’s telecoms regulator has fined operators a total of almost US$35 million for quality of service – though they are contesting the decisions.
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Next generation networks are tipped to transform industry and gaming – but when it comes to sport, 5G, private networks and enhanced broadcasting tech are creating new business cases for network operators. Melanie Mingas explains why it’s a match made in heaven
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MTN has told all its employees that they must be vaccinated against Covid-19 if they are to work on the company’s premises.
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CVTelecom (Cabo Verde Telecom) and Angola Cables have formed a joint cooperation agreement to identify synergies to expand connectivity and network capabilities.
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Schneider Electric has released what its describes as a 'comprehensive novel framework' for environmentally sustainable data centres.
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Equinix has announced plans to acquire MainOne for an enterprise value of $320 million.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved three telcos as approved bidders in its upcoming 3.5Ghz 5G spectrum auction.
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Eutelsat Communications and Vodacom Tanzania have signed a service agreement for packaged services to deliver connectivity to underserved regions of Tanzania.
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OTTs, 2022 trends and BT's Andrew Lord on QKD and hollow core fibre
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Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) revenue generated in North America will reach $15 billion by 2026 up from $3.7 billion in 2021, according to a study from Juniper Research.
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Nearly a year after Google’s parent group burst a project to use balloons to deliver mobile coverage in east Africa, another scheme has popped up.
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Blocked from a growing number of telecoms networks, Huawei is changing its business model to focus on new revenue streams. Saf Malik reports.
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Africa Data Centres is to expand its capacity in Johannesburg, while embarking on a series of new projects.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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EllaLink's new connection and KKR's latest spending spree
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The facilities being developed by WIOCC Group's new data centre company will host cable landing stations for the 2Africa and Equiano subsea cables.
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WIOCC has completed a $200 million debt and equity capital raise to expand its connectivity across Africa and internationally.
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Telecom Egypt has deployed Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme to maximise its capacity along the Mediterranean segment of Telecom Egypt’s Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system.
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Hilda Bujiku has been promoted to the role of finance director at Vodacom Tanzania, after a near seven-months as deputy.
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Research by Inmarsat has found that despite the accelerating speed of Internet of Things (IoT) adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic, poor or unreliable connectivity is a key barrier.
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New standards are required to stimulate the deployment of "cyber-physical systems" in agtech to feed a fast-growing global population.
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IHS Towers is to acquire 5,709 telecoms towers in South Africa from MTN for approximately $412 million (ZAR 6.4 billion) in cash.
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Airtel Africa confirms that its subsidiary Airtel Mobile Commerce Nigeria has been granted approval in principle by the Central Bank of Nigeria to operate as a super-agent in Nigeria.
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Seacom has appointed Tejpal Bedi to the role of MD and regional head of sales for the East and North-East Africa (ENEA) region.
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Satellite buys; presidential visits; and Capgemini's Shamik Mishra
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New satellite internet concepts are moving ahead but are some types of companies better positioned to succeed in this growing market than others? Chris Daehnick, associate partner at McKinsey & Company, explores the prospects
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William Natta, communication officer at Télécoms Sans Frontières, outlines the importance of connectivity in education – and how the NGO supports children in crisis
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Ivorian ISP and telecoms operator VIPNET has expanded its network from 155Mbps to 1Gbps, with MainOne.
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Vodafone Group (Vodafone) has agreed to transfer its 55% shareholding in Vodafone Egypt to Vodacom Group (Vodacom), its sub-Saharan African subsidiary.
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Africa have increased by 300% this year when compared to 2019 and, according to the firm behind the numbers, the trend "shows no sign of slowing down".
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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Telkom Kenya is to expand its mobile network by 2,000 sites by 2023.
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Project Kuiper launch dates; telco negotiation tactics; and GSMA's Stephanie Lynch-Habib
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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Airtel Africa and UNICEF have signed a five-year "multi-million dollar" partnership to scale-up digital learning for children across 13 African countries.
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Vodafone Foundation has launched an international search for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its DreamLab smartphone app.
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Oracle is launching a series of new cloud regions using Orange’s infrastructure in Senegal and Ivory Coast.
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Orange and Liquid Intelligent Technologies will partner to expand network reach in Africa.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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IBM has published the results of its latest global study on cloud transformation which has found that there is drastic shift in business needs positioning hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture.
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MTN Nigeria is planning to raise the equivalent of almost US$220 million in a bond issue to expand its 4G network.
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Orange, Veon and Telenor have published their Q3 financial results, with Airtel Africa also releasing its half year trading update.
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Seacom, the pan-African telco, has completed the acquisition of Hirani Telecom’s metro fibre network in Kenya.
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Satellite company OneWeb is moving into Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Middle East and east Africa following a deal with a local company.
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Digital Realty has entered into two new partnerships with Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund that will see it take PlatformDIGITAL to new African markets.
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Raxio Group has invested in the first carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in Ivory Coast as it looks to expand its African footprint.
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Africell has opened a new data centre in Angola, after signing a new partnership with Angola Cables.
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The 17th annual Global Carrier Awards (GCAs) was back live in London during this year's Capacity Europe conference.
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In a two-part panel session DOCOMO Digital's Filippo Giachi and Rahul Mughal unpack the booming sector that is cloud gaming, to mixed views.
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Capacity Europe panellists discuss the role of terrestrial fibre networks in subsea cable networks across the African continent.
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Nominations are now open for next year's Datacloud Awards, scheduled to return to Monaco in April.
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Global IXP provider, Asteroid confirms the deployment of its Internet exchange point (IXP) within the PAIX cloud-and-carrier neutral data centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
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The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) has seen a tenfold increase in traffic as major telco players look for direct access to markets in the US and South America.