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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The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has appointed the first female secretary-general in its 120-year history.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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The world is on the verge of becoming one giant Wifi network, according to the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), which this week further outlined its OpenRoaming initiative.
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Helios Towers has witnessed a 7% year-on-year increase in revenue in the first nine months of the year.
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This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporter Natalie Bannerman.
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The government of Ghana is to buy AirtelTigo as approved by the board of parent company Bharti Airtel yesterday.
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The world’s largest data centre operator Equinix has posted its financial results for the third quarter which have shown the incapability of the Covid-19 pandemic to slow the data centre industry.
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The Raxio Group (Raxio) has acquired land at the ICT Park, in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to build the country’s first private uptime certified Tier III colocation data centre.
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UK development finance and impact investor, the CDC Group has announced an additional $40 million equity investment into Liquid Telecom.
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MTN Group has announced two major appointments, including a new group executive committee position.
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The first multi-network 5G vehicle router; Corero and Juniper Networks win security contract in Italy; SMishing solution unveiled for IOS and Android; Verizon, Microsoft roll out private 5G MEC; amd Ooredoo Algeria activates first 10Gbps link
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Egyptian firm Benya Capital has confirmed its plans to build a 16,000km fibre network in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) next year.
