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...
Following Africa’s west coast subsea cable outages, WIOCC Group has restored major ISP and IP transit provider services onto the Equiano cable. Following a suspected rock fall in the Congo Canyon, the WACS, SAT-3 and ACE subsea cables have been damaged, disrupting the services of many Southern African connectivity providers. To fix the problem, WIOCC,...
Angola was added to the 2Africa cable in August 2021. The infrastructure is expected to connect 33 countries on three continents and provide improved connectivity to more than three billion people. The 2Africa fiber optic submarine cable of the eponymous consortium led by the American company Meta will land on the Angolan coast on July...
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...
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...
Angola Cables and international telecom services provider, Orange, last week sealed an infrastructure sharing agreement on the West African Djoliba Network. The two say the arrangement gives customers direct access to the Francophone markets of West Africa and gives both companies the option to extend their respective global connectivity by sharing inland networks and the...
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...
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...
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...
Guinea-Bissau began work to connect to the ACE cable in 2017. It is the last country in West Africa to connect to this infrastructure launched in 2012 and which connects around twenty African and European countries. Guinea-Bissau finalized, Tuesday, March 28, its connection to its first international fiber optic submarine cable: the Africa Coast to...
