Vodacom lands 2Africa cable north of Mozambique

Vodacom Mozambique has launched the 2Africa cable in Nacala-Porto. According to the telecom provider, it is the first undersea cable to land in the country’s north, and a data facility has also opened in the same city. According to the United Nations, Mozambique is one of the world’s least developed countries, and this landing by...

Liquid Intelligent Technologies deploys Mauritius Telecom T3 subsea cable enhancing connectivity between Mauritius and South Africa

The move will bring a much-needed boost to the stability and redundancy around the connectivity that exists between the two countries Liquid Intelligent Technologies (https://www.Liquid.Tech/), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has successfully installed the Mauritius Telecom T3 subsea cable connecting Mauritius to South Africa. This cable has been deployed at Liquid’s...

Maroc Telecom invests €150 mln in subsea cable to connect African subsidiaries

The demand for broadband connectivity is set to keep growing in Africa over the next few years. To meet this demand, operators are strengthening their infrastructure.  The Moroccan telecommunications group Itissalat Al Maghrib (Maroc Telecom) has invested 150 million euros in the construction of a new fiber optic submarine cable. Called “West Africa”, the infrastructure...

Six West African countries sign a memorandum of understanding for the construction of the Amilcar Cabral submarine cable

This high-speed infrastructure bears the name of Amilcar Lopes da Costa Cabral, hero of the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. It was originally supposed to connect Guinea and Cape Verde. The Amilcar Cabral submarine telecom cable to connect Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone is gradually taking shape. The Ministers of Information and...

China initiates $500 mln subsea cable to compete with US-led SeaMeWe-6

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are one of the strategic fronts in the battle for influence between China and the United States. In that sector particularly, the rivalry between those two world powers could benefit Africa.  State-owned companies China Telecom, China Mobile Limited, and China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd are planning to build...

Seacom taps telecom veteran Alpheus Mangale as new CEO

Telecommunications and managed services provider Seacom announced Alpheus Mangale as its new group chief executive officer, effective 1 April 2023. He is a seasoned business leader with over 25 years of experience across the enterprise, telecoms, financial services and technology markets across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He will work alongside the company’s outgoing...

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