Africa’s Missing Middle
Africa has more international bandwidth than at any point in its history. New submarine cables have expanded capacity, created new landing points and improved the continent’s access to global internet…
Africa has more international bandwidth than at any point in its history. New submarine cables have expanded capacity, created new landing points and improved the continent’s access to global internet…
Africa’s internet story is usually told through visible infrastructure: new subsea cables, more terrestrial fiber, expanding data centers, Internet Exchange Points, cloud points of presence and rising broadband adoption. By…
Nigeria’s difficult power environment may have forced its data center operators to build a level of resilience that is directly relevant to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new data localization…
Global provider of critical digital infrastructure solutions, Vertiv, will host the next edition of its AI Innovation Roadshow for Africa as a virtual event on Wednesday, April 15 at 11:00…
There is a reason the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, better known as CPP Investments, keeps turning up in digital infrastructure deals. Recently, it announced it would purchase, with Equinix,…
Cameroon’s state-owned operator CAMTEL has signed a three-year Master Service Agreement with Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom, marking a major step in its digital transformation agenda. The deal, signed Thursday in Yaoundé…
Ghana approves “Dig Once” Policy for fiber rollout. Ghana’s government has approved a sweeping new “Dig Once” policy that will require fiber-optic ducts to be built into all new road…
Africa is moving to position itself for the next wave of artificial-intelligence development, as researchers, policymakers, and technology executives concluded the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICAIR…
WIOCC, the pan-African digital infrastructure provider, and the Abia State Government have broken ground on a new fiber duct infrastructure project aimed at improving broadband access and last-mile connectivity across…
Recent digital infrastructure gatherings across Africa have hammered home a recurring message: the continent’s digital future will not be built by subsea cables and cell towers alone. From Lagos to…