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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MEF has begun its work to define Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) services as part of its certified MEF 3.0 network services.
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Ahmed Mohamud Yuusuf, CEO Hormuud Telecoms, suggests three avenues of change for African telecoms in a post-Covid world
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Liquid Telecom has rebranded its South African operations in what it calls a “strategic repositioning”.
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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 reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
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As this pandemic exploded, we faced a global health crisis, widespread economic uncertainty, a rapid shift to working from home and the responsibility of #keepingtheworldconnected, in a matter of just a few short weeks.
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As the world enters the worst recession on record, lynchpin global industries are facing collapse.
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Ciena has appointed Pete Hall (pictured) as its new head of Middle East and Africa (MEA) and subsea sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe’s richest man and founder & chairman of Econet is reportedly struggling to sell a stake in Liquid Telecom due to the effects of Covid-19.
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Featuring host editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporter Abigail Opiah.
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Somalia’s internet and international voice traffic was cut off in late July as a result of a shunt fault that occurred on the EASSy subsea cable along the Somali segment of the cable.
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The real impact of Covid-19 on telcos’ revenues is only now starting to surface, with global provider of connectivity and digital services VEON becoming the latest player to report a revenue fall of 16.3% in its YoY quarter 2 revenues.
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Colt Technology Services upgraded its universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) solution, in a bid to speed up Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) across the enterprise layer.
