African telecom operators need more capacity to meet the growing demand for broadband connectivity on the continent. This provides a market opportunity for local and foreign wholesale suppliers. Omani telecom operator and wholesale service provider Omantel has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with data center operator Wingu Group to establish a Point of...
Cassava technologies-owned Africa Data Centres (ADC) has penned a 20-year power purchase agreement with DPA Southern Africa (DPA SA) to supply its facilities in South Africa with renewable solar energy. DPA SA is a 50:50 joint company of Distributed Power Africa and French utility company, EDF, and the two companies intend to develop hybrid energy...
Sudatel, Sudan’s largest fixed broadband supplier and owner of Sudani One, Sudan’s second-largest mobile network, has announced its participation in the DjIX platform at Wingu’s Djibouti Data Center. Sudatel will be connected to the DjIX platform through its international company, Expresso, starting in March 2023, and immediately open to peering with operators and content providers....
MainOne’s datacentre subsidiary MDXi Appolonia has received its Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute. In a statement released to the media, MDXi Appolonia said the milestone confirms its status as “the leading datacentre provider in Ghana” with four industry certifications – including the Tier III Constructed Facility certification, TCCF; the PCI-DSS...
Acquired by Digital Realty in 2019, iColo is beginning its real expansion in Africa. Until then, the company had three data centers spread across these two campuses in Mombasa and Nairobi, Kenya. Data center operator iColo, a subsidiary of Digital Realty, opened its first carrier-neutral data center in Maputo, Mozambique on Wednesday, February 8. Dubbed MPM1, the...
Africa is considered an emerging datacentre market. Although still growing, analysts believe the continent is not lagging and development is happening at pace. A recent study conducted by consulting and market research firm, BlueWeave Consulting valued the international datacentre market at US$206.2-billion in 2021, predicting it will reach an estimated US$ 404.9-billion by the end...
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...
Teraco Data Environments, Africa’s largest data centre company, raised R11.8-billion in funds to assist with its expansion plans and power build-out, said chief financial officer Samuel Erwin. Just under half of the loan financing, which was led by Absa Group, will be used as growth capital to build out the company’s solar capacity and data centres,...
Africa Data Centres has announced plans to expand its datacentre operation in Nairobi, and said it has identified a new site to accommodate an extra 15MW of IT load to be added to its existing infrastructure. The Cassava Technologies company said the new data facility will begin with 5MW of IT load and will be...
Raxio Group entered the African data center market in 2019. Since then, the company has multiplied investments to expand its geographical footprint on the continent. Until then, it was present in six African countries including Uganda, DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia. Neutral data center builder and operator Raxio Group announced on Tuesday, January 17 that it is...
