Nigeria’s AFPIF moment.
In April 2025, the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) quietly crossed a line that once felt unreachable - 1 terabit per second of peak domestic internet traffic. It was…
Neutral, open, connected: Equinix’s play to anchor West Africa’s interconnection economy.
In a dusty office in Cocody, Abidjan, Lacina Achi refreshes his browser, watching the dashboard of his new e-learning platform come alive. For years, delays and outages were routine, each…
Airtel Africa, Vodacom sign infrastructure-sharing deal to boost connectivity.
Airtel Africa and Vodacom Group have agreed to share fibre and tower infrastructure in markets including Mozambique, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, pending regulatory approval, in a bid…
MTN Nigeria bets $235m on data center push, but carrier neutrality questions linger.
MTN Nigeria has fired its opening salvo in the country’s lucrative cloud infrastructure race, unveiling the first phase of its $235 million Dabengwa Sifiso Data Center, a bold move that…
Equinix gathers West Africa’s internet leaders in Lagos for peering-focused social
Equinix, a global digital infrastructure company is convening West Africa’s top internet infrastructure stakeholders this Friday in Lagos at PeersConnect, a peer-focused gathering designed to foster interconnection, deepen collaboration, and accelerate…
MVNO Nigeria 2025 charts bold path for inclusive connectivity and market competition.
The MVNO Nigeria 2025 Conference brought together telecom policymakers, mobile operators, digital infrastructure leaders, and investors to mark a pivotal step in Nigeria’s connectivity journey. Convened under the theme “Unlocking Growth,…
Burkina Faso to expand Mobile Network with 800 towers in 2025.
The government of Burkina Faso has announced plans to boost mobile network coverage across the country with the deployment of 800 new telecom towers this year, aiming to eliminate connectivity…
Stakeholders rally MVNO licensees on operations, product differentiation.
Stakeholders in the information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystems have rallied the mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) on product differentiation and commencement of operations. The stakeholders appealed yesterday in Lagos…
Enabling the intelligent age in West Africa.
By Wole Abu In March 2024, several of West Africa’s subsea cables were knocked offline by an underwater rockslide. According to the Internet Society, 13 African nations experienced connectivity issues,…
Before 6G, let’s fix 3G: the real connectivity crisis in Africa
It wasn’t that long ago that the telecoms industry heralded 5G as a revolutionary leap forward. Former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf famously predicted that 5G would have an impact “similar…