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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

More Africa NewsOrange 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 22, 2023by myles0

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...

More Africa NewsDR Congo: towards the operationalization of the Universal Services Development Fund

July 25, 2023by myles0

Nearly half of the Congolese population does not have access to mobile services, according to statistics from the telecoms regulator. The same source indicates that more than 70% of Congolese do not yet use mobile Internet services. The Universal Services Development Fund (FDSU) responsible for promoting telecommunications in rural and peri-urban areas of the Democratic Republic...

More Africa NewsFirst open-access, career neutral data centre set for DRC

July 13, 2023by myles0

Pan-African digital infrastructure firm WIOCC Group and Belgium-headquartered Texaf yesterday signed a shareholder agreement for the operation of Open Access Data Centres (OADC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). OADC – a WIOCC company – will be the DRC’s first open-access, Tier-III certified, carrier-neutral data centre and is anticipated to go live in November....

More Africa NewsDemocratic Republic of Congo: Eastcastle gets 60 million from IFC to expand its network of telecom towers

June 28, 2023by myles0

In the DRC, mobile phone services only cover 50.9% of the population, according to official statistics. Telecom operators need additional infrastructure capacity to bridge the digital divide. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a branch of the World Bank focused on financing the private sector in emerging countries, announced on Monday June 26 that it had granted...

More Africa NewsLiquid Dataport connects Kenya, DR Congo

June 1, 2023by myles0

Liquid Dataport has launched its newest fibre route connecting Mombasa in Kenya to Muanda on the west coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company, a subsidiary of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, announced the launch today, saying this is the shortest route connecting East and West Africa, reducing data transmission latency by 20 milliseconds. “The...

More Africa NewsDRC launches fourth IXP

May 24, 2023by myles0

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) fourth Internet Exchange Point (IXP) has been activated in Kinshasa, Agence Ecofin reports. The new hub, dubbed the Africa Congo Internet Exchange (ACIX), is a partnership between German interconnection services provider DEC-CIX and local ISP United, whilst the paper notes that the project was also supported by the government’s Digital Development Agency (l’Agence...

More Africa NewsEuropean Investment Bank, Bandwidth and Cloud Services, partner to launch fibre network in DRC

May 22, 2023by myles0

More than 2.5 million people living in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC will benefit from faster, cheaper and more reliable digital connectivity thanks to new fibre-optic network investment being rolled out by Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group, BCS and backed by the European Investment Bank, EIB. Under Global Gateway,...

More Africa NewsFast Congo DRC fiber highway goes live.

March 17, 2023by myles0

The Paratus Group subsidiary in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Fast Congo, announces that its 620-kilometer fiber optic network link between Muanda on the West Coast and the capital, Kinshasa, is now active. The fiber link will deliver high speed connectivity to the region through the Paratus Group’s pan-African network. The fiber highway was...

More Africa NewsThis is how Orange is bringing innovation, skills to DRC

March 6, 2023by myles0

French multinational Orange Telecom has launched a digital centre in Kinshasa, dedicated to the development of digital skills and innovation. The centre is the 15 for the telco, after the establishment of Orange Digital Centers in Tunisia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Egypt, Jordan, Madagascar, Morocco, Liberia, Botswana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and the Middle...

More Africa NewsDRC’s first open-access datacentre to be operational by Q2 2023

February 7, 2023by myles0

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands to benefit from the country’s first open-access, carrier-neutral datacentre, OADC Kinshasa F1H1. The datacentre is scheduled to go live in Q2 2023. WIOCC Group company and pan-African datacentre operator Open Access Data Centres (OADC) said the first phase of the 2MW-capable, 550+ rack datacentre will be operational by...

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