The 2Africa subsea cable has landed at the Vodacom network facility in Gqeberha, South Africa. Vodacom said this is the first submarine cable landing in the Eastern Cape region, and promises greater internet capacity, acceleration of connectivity across the province and support for South Africa’s growing digital economy. The 2Africa Consortium includes eight international partners,...
MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with the 2Africa consortium, which includes China Mobile International, Meta, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, center3, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, have announced the landing of the 45 000km 2Africa cable in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, South Africa. For MTN GlobalConnect, this landing is the first in a series of...
EXA Infrastructure, the largest dedicated digital infrastructure platform connecting Europe and North America, and WIOCC Group, Africa’s leading provider of converged open access digital infrastructure, have signed a deal for capacity on a new terrestrial transport route interconnecting Africa and Europe. The deal comes hot on the heels of EXA’s recent announcement that it is...
Submarine fibre cable systems landing in South Africa will help improve Internet capacity in the country while letting the big players behind them get more customers onto their apps or ecosystems. This is according to BluNOVA CEO Suveer Ramdhani, who said the main aim of big players investing in these submarine cables is to increase...
Google is continuing to deploy its submarine cable system in Africa. The realization of this project is part of the objective of the American company to invest 1 billion USD in Africa over five years to support digital transformation there. Google’s Equiano undersea internet cable finally landed in South Africa earlier this week. This was announced by...
Google’s Equaino submarine internet cable has landed on the South African shores. Announced in 2019, the subsea cable is expected to be a massive job creation machine, driven by the expansion of the region’s digital economy and peripheral sectors. The Equiano submarine internet cable was landed at Melkbosstrand north of Cape Town on Monday. The cable starts...
Following the announcement in February 2021 that African telco, Paratus Group, together with Telecom Namibia, had been selected to build the cable landing station (CLS) for the Equiano subsea internet cable in Namibia, the cable been brought ashore. In early February 2022 Paratus Namibia confirmed that the cable landing station at Swakopmund for the Equiano subsea cable was complete...
Wiocc Group, one of the original investors in the Eassy submarine cable system on Africa’s east coast, is gearing up for rapid expansion as it eyes opportunities offered by two massive new cables being deployed to the continent. Wiocc – originally the West Indian Ocean Cable Company – was created to invest in Eassy, the submarine...
A month after landing in Togo, Google’s giant new submarine cable, Equiano, which will connect South Africa and Europe along Africa’s west coast, has been brought ashore in Nigeria. The second mainland Africa landing of the cable system took place in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, this week, and comes ahead of the anticipated commercial launch of...
Since 2020, the demand for high-speed connectivity and the amount of data traffic have been growing across the African continent. In Kenya, the authorities are investing in the strengthening of telecom infrastructure to respond effectively to this demand. Kenya is now connected to its sixth fiber optic submarine cable system. The Pakistan & East Africa Connecting Europe...
