News and BusinessPan-African wholesale telecom infrastructure provider Bandwidth & Cloud Services Group (BCS), is upgrading it’s network backbone using Ekinops’ DWDM transport solution, which it says will enhance connectivity throughout Africa. The project involves long-distance regional optical transport networks capable of 1Tbps capacity across Africa and urban connectivity upgrades through 44 metro ring deployments offering 10G traffic […]
News and BusinessChina Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC are to partner to build 2Africa, the most comprehensive subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region. At 37,000km, 2Africa will be one of the world’s largest subsea cable projects and will interconnect Europe (eastward via Egypt), the Middle […]
News and BusinessPan-African service provider SEACOM has struck a connectivity deal with Raxio Uganda, Uganda’s first carrier-neutral, enterprise-grade data centre scheduled to launch in the first quarter 2020. Privately-owned SEACOM launched Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system along the continent’s Eastern and Southern coasts in 2009. SEACOM recently launched enterprise connectivity solutions in Uganda that […]
News and BusinessTata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) is partnering with Africa Development Solutions (ADS Group) to build a fibre infrastructure backbone across the African continent. India-headquartered TCTS will perform pre-feasibility assessments with ADS for African nations, studying existing as well as planned fibre infrastructure, with the aim of deploying a multi-country backbone. As a first step, infrastructure […]
News and BusinessLiquid Telecom has received a US$180 million cash injection from the UK government investment firm CDC Group Plc, to enable the pan-African telco to expand its fibre network to some of the most under-served communities across Africa The investment will aid citizens and the business start-up ecosystem with the availability of high-speed broadband and […]