Congo strengthens its digital infrastructure with the commissioning of a new $6.3 million data center

Congo continues to strengthen its national digital infrastructure. The President of the Republic, Denis Sassou N’Guesso, proceeded on Wednesday February 28 to the commissioning of a new Tier 3+ data center built by the Post and Regulatory Agency. electronic communications (ARPCE) in Pointe-Noire. The equipment cost 3.8 billion CFA francs (6.3 million USD). “The Data...

Congo: the government invested $6.7 million in two years to connect Schools to the Internet

Official statistics show that 5.7 million people are connected to the mobile Internet in Congo. This represents a penetration rate of 57.1%. The Congolese government has invested around four billion CFA francs (6.7 million USD) between 2021 and 2023 to connect 150 “  white zones  ” and 19 schools to the Internet. These achievements were recalled during the second...

Congo takes the lead in the French-speaking network of telecoms regulators

Created in Bamako on October 28, 2003, FRATEL’s main mission is to establish and strengthen collaboration and exchanges between its members. The Moroccan Az-El-Arabe Hassibi led the organization for the year 2023. Louis-Marc Sakala, the director general of the Postal and Electronic Communications Regulatory Agency of Congo (ARPCE), is the new president of the French-speaking Telecommunications...

Orange DRC & Airtel Congo RDC have landed the 2Africa submarine cable in the Democratic Republic of Congo off Muanda through their joint venture Mawezi RDC SA

September 21, 2023, brought together around Meta (formerly Facebook), the 2Africa consortium – made up of telecom operators China Mobile International, Bayobab (formerly MTN Global Connect), Orange (https://www.Orange.com), center3 (formerly stc), Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC – has laid the 2Africa cable in the Democratic Republic of Congo, off Muanda in the Kongo-Central province. 2Africa (https://www.2AfricaCable.net/) will...

The Republic of Congo connects to its second fiber optic submarine cable

Since 2011, Congo has been served by a single international fiber optic submarine cable, the WACS. Failures that frequently occur on this infrastructure cause disruption of Internet services. The 2Africa fiber optic submarine cable from the eponymous consortium led by the American company Meta landed on the Congolese coast on Thursday 17 August. This was announced by...

Airtel Congo and MTN Congo ink national roaming deal

A national roaming agreement between Congolese mobile operators Airtel Congo and MTN Congo has been announced by the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Post (L’Agence de Regulation des Postes et des Communications Electroniques, ARPCE). In a press release regarding the matter, ARPCE noted that the under the deal MTN Congo will open its network to its rivals subscribers at eight sites,...

Successful pilot renews MTN Congo’s 5G ambitions

Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso launched the test, run with technical support from Chinese tech firm ZTE, on 28 October. This coincided with MTN’s anniversary to mark 20 years of operation in the country. MTN Congo CEO Ayham Moussa posted a tweet: “Hand-in-hand, we have written the last 20 years. We remain pioneers of progress in Africa...

Congo and Cameroon now share faster Internet speed thanks to their fiber optic interconnection

Both countries have the ambition to improve the living conditions of their respective populations thanks to low-cost broadband which offers multiple economic and social opportunities. This is the commitment made when this project started in 2020. Congo and Cameroon are officially interconnected by fiber optics. The network that materializes this digital collaboration between the two States was...

Congo: the CAB steering committee sets a budget of $20.7 million to complete ongoing ICT projects

In 2021, the CAB-Congo steering committee set itself the objective of finalizing several projects. However, the Covid-19 pandemic caused a certain slowdown in the realization of the project. While some activities have been completed, others are still in the implementation phase. The Congolese Steering Committee of the Central Africa Backbone (CAB) project, which aims to connect Central...

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