MORE than 23.8 million people from 5,111 villages are set to receive reliable communication services, thanks to the ongoing telecom tower projects executed by the Universal Communications Service Access Fund (UCSAF). The government, through UCSAF, has disbursed a subsidy of 326bn/- to mobile network operators who are implementing the communication tower projects in a public-private...
ZANZIBAR government’s internet-connectivity, digitalization drive is gathering pace, following the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Zanzibar Information Communication Technology Infrastructure Agency (ZICTIA) and telecom firm Tigo-Zantel. The ongoing digitalisation in the Isles is targeting towards at ensuring easy access to internet services to residential and strategic investment areas such as Fumba...
Wingu.africa is thrilled to unveil a ground-breaking agreement that promises to revolutionize the digital landscape in Tanzania. Wingu and TISPA (Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association) have formalized a strategic partnership to expand the reach of TIX (Tanzania Internet Exchange) into the Wingu Data Center, the country’s first carrier-neutral commercial data center, critical digital infrastructure for...
Flashnet, a Managed Service Provider based in Dar es Salaam, today announced a partnership with Wingu Group, East Africa’s leading carrier-neutral data center group, which operates a Tier III Data Center in Dar es Salaam to provide Cloud and Data Centre Services across Tanzania and East Africa. Flashnet’s Cloud and Data Centre Services portfolio includes...
Airtel Tanzania and the Tanzanian government have signed an agreement to install 758 communication towers across the country, with the aim of enhancing accessibility and efficiency of communication services to achieve at least 85 percent internet penetration by 2025. Airtel and the Tanzanian government join forces to install 758 communication towers. Airtel Tanzania has been...
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has teamed up with wingu.africa, a Tanzania-based provider of carrier-neutral data centre services, to launch the second Azure hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) stack in Tanzania. Azure Stack HCI is a hyperconverged clustering solution that uses verified hardware to run virtualized workloads on-premises. The company announced the move today, saying that Liquid Tanzania’s investment...
The Tanzanian government wants 85% of its population to have access to broadband by 2025. Currently, the country has 34.04 million internet users and a population of 67.9 million people. Horus Power and Telecom Solutions, a telecoms company present in 14 African countries, and Bradda, a Tanzanian ISP, have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate...
One of Tanzania’s well-established carriers, Green Telecom, is the latest partner to join the wingu.africa ecosystem, bringing together a state-of-the-art data center and expertise in telecom and managed services. The well-established Green Telecom is a regional and international carrier headquartered in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with nationally established 10+ PoPs and 10 cross-border PoPs providing...
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)...
TANZANIA is poised to become a digital hub within the East Africa Community (EAC) following the inauguration of the Centre of Competence in Digital Education (C-CoDE). Hosted by the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), the centre is established within the framework of the Excellence in Africa initiative, collaboration between Mohamed VI...
