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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Pan-Africa MNO Africell is to exit the Ugandan market, ceasing operations by 7 October.
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hiSky Ltd is to use Avanti's HYLAS fleet to expand its Smartellite™ IoT network for Africa, the Middle East and the UK.
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Africa Data Centres is to more than double its portfolio with 10 hyperscale data centres "across the length and breadth" of Africa.
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Whether it’s smart cities or Industry 4.0, Tiago Rodrigues, CEO of the Wireless Broadband Alliance, explains why seamless onboarding and convergence are key to success
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Online, failure is a fact of life – and service provision. However, as Neil Miller, director, solutions engineering, Cisco ThousandEyes, writes, the severity of outages can be mitigated
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Back for series 3, this episode features Melanie Mingas, editor at Capacity Media; editor-at-large, Alan Burkitt-Gray; deputy editor, Natalie Bannerman; and special guest Carl Roberts, partner at Hadaara Consulting.
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There’s a lot going on in space today: new satellite mega-constellations are springing up in multiple orbits, high-throughput satellites (HTS) have been launched into the skies, and SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon are planning huge rollouts of satellites in a low Earth orbit (LEO) over the coming years.
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Following the well-publicised CDN outages of 2021, Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman explores how we can future-proof this infrastructure to avoid such events happening again
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Capacity’s Natalie Bannerman speaks to Swarmio’s Vijai Karthigesu on how telcos can get a piece of the content gaming pie
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This year The Global Carrier Awards return for a live ceremony in London, but who will be there? Here is the highly-anticipated 2021 shortlist
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The AB Handshake community is dramatically changing the way communications providers validate telephone calls and prevent fraud.
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Capacity speaks to Kyle Whitehill, chief executive officer, Avanti, on the company's work in delivering satellite connectivity across Africa.
