Until now having only 35,000 km of optical fiber, Nigeria needs 95,000 km to ensure complete coverage and guarantee high-speed Internet services to the entire population. Nigeria will have to invest between 1.5 and 2 billion US dollars to extend optical fiber throughout the country. This was revealed by Bosun Tijani (photo), Minister of Communications, Innovation...
Fast Congo, a subsidiary of Pan-African operator Paratus Group, has inked a long-term agreement with GVA (Group Vivendi Africa), this week, to deliver fibre capacity between Muanda and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to a joint statement, the deal grants GVA access to the use of Fast Congo-operated and maintained...
Powertel wants to support the Zimbabwean government’s digital transformation ambitions. The company plans to invest 570 million in its telecoms network over the next seven years. Powertel Communications, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA Holdings Group) specializing in the provision of fiber optic internet, on Thursday, November 23, signed a memorandum of understanding...
Bayobab, a provider of pan-African digital connectivity solutions, has set in motion an ambitious two-year plan to expand its fibre network to 135,000 km. In an interview with ITWeb Africa, Bayobab’s chief fibreco officer, Mohammed Aliyu, outlined the firm’s strategy while discussing how the MTN Group subsidiary is contributing to Africa’s digital development. The pan-African...
The public company Camtel is the exclusive manager of Cameroon’s fiber optic infrastructure. The company’s network currently extends over 15,000 km. The incumbent operator Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) plans to install 3,500 km of additional optical fiber from 2024 across Cameroon, particularly in rural areas. The project was revealed by Judith Yah Sunday (photo, left), general director of...
Airtel Nigeria has partnered with MediaTek, a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that manufactures chips for wireless communications, to provide clients with 5G routers. According to the terms of the deal, MediaTek will introduce T750-powered Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), which would boost internet connectivity. This the two parties says allow customers to connect to high-speed 5G...
MTN South Africa has launched MTN Fibre, offering aggressively priced uncapped fibre broadband prices, including a 1Gbit/s plan for R889/month on Vumatel’s network. Provided through its internet service provider Supersonic, MTN Fibre “pairs high-speed internet with unmatched reliability from as little as R349/month, including router and installation”, the company said in a statement on Monday. MTN Fibre...
Tanzania already has agreements for sharing its national fiber optic backbone with neighboring countries. These include Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya… Tanzania will interconnect its National Broadband ICT Backbone (NICTBB) with the Uganda National ICT Backbone Infrastructure (NBI). To this end, a memorandum of understanding was signed on Friday, September 29, between the Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL)...
Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announces the launch of two new fully redundant terrestrial routes – Kenya to Ethiopia and Zambia to Malawi. This significant achievement will allow for greater efficiency and reliable regional connectivity, both key to the economic development of these countries. Spanning over 1000...
Tanzania already has agreements for sharing its national fiber optic backbone with neighboring countries. These include Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda. Tanzania will connect Malawi to its National Information and Communications Technology Broadband (NICTBB). This is part of the clauses of a commercial agreement signed between the Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL) and the Electricity Supply Corporation of...
