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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AFR-IX telecom has expanded its peering network to Asteroid Mombasa IXP, based in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa.
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African carrier Liquid Telecom has become Liquid Intelligent Technologies to show that it is now a one-stop-shop technology group.
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The SDIA was pleased to see the recent announcement regarding the formation of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact.
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High Court judge Selby Baqwa says that he halted South Africa’s radio spectrum auction by regulator ICASA because the process was “unlawful and irrational”.
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EdgeInfra founder and CEO Cara Mascini has joined Netflix as director of its Open Connect project.
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Season 2, episode 9 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman, and special guest Mikael Schachne, the VP of Mobility and IoT Business and CMO, BICS.
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They may be supporting the digitalisation of a region with 1.4 billion people, but telcos in the Middle East and Africa are not strategising their own digital transformation.
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South African regulator ICASA has been ordered to halt the country's spectrum auction.
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Satellite company OneWeb will be a completely wholesale operation from the commercial launch of its $2.4 billion project in October, executive chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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This International Women’s Day it’s time to force change and use the pandemic as a catalyst for thisI like the hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day, #ChooseToChallenge because words are great but actions speak louder. If we want more diversity, we need to force the issue and back up our old arguments with fresh activity and hard evidence that shows our progress.
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According to a BCG study from 2020, only 15% of data scientists are women.
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Too often the conversation around gender parity, centres on the notion of equality, i.e. the state of being equal, or in this context the notion that all people are treated the same. But are there instances where people need to be treated different in order to make things equal – e.g. equity.
