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Africa National Telecom
Three references, one document: who may sell capacity at Banjul, and where the record stops
The Africa Coast to Europe cable record places a landing point at Banjul and carries this company's name in an owners field. What a buyer of Gambian capacity needs next is the party entitled to sell over that landing, and an owners string does not name it. That gap carries a…
Africa Regional ISP
The ownership verb: what WIOCC's homepage claim actually measures
On 18 October 2026 WIOCC's own front page began stating a position in two named submarine systems. The same block gave three counters that each carry a unit, and the independent record retained alongside it counts routing adjacencies, not fibre. The gap between those two kinds of…
Africa Institutional
GARNET: Ghana's research network documents its mandate, not its operations
Ghana's national research and education network can be named, dated and mapped to seven public universities. What it cannot yet be is checked: neither its own site nor the regional body that recognises it publishes governance, funding, contracted capacity or the address resources…
Africa National Telecom
Safaricom’s Appeal Leaves Shares and Payment in Place
A Kenyan appellate court left a completed 20% effective-stake transfer in place while accelerating a challenge to the transaction. Its order preserves both the share registration and the consideration already paid, but resolves neither the merits nor the ultimate destination of…
Africa National Telecom
Libya's self-declared gateway operator does not appear in the measured record of the country's 2025 shutdown
The Libyan International Telecommunication Company presents itself as Libya's single international gateway. The independent measurement of 16 May 2025 names four Libyan access networks — none of them the gateway, and one of them under a name that matches no corporate identity the…
Africa Institutional
South African Post Office: the rescue is ending, the statutory bill is not
On 12 June 2026 the Post Office's business rescue practitioners asked the Pretoria High Court to terminate the rescue, reporting a balance sheet returned to a positive R840 million and a loss cut from R514 million to R71 million. No order had been granted by 17 August 2026, the…
Africa National Telecom
Helios Towers: tenancy growth, a US$5.9bn backlog and the cash that arrived least
Helios Towers' H1 2026 report shows an operator winning the tenancy race and losing the cash-conversion race, and the gap between the two is where the investment case now lives. Tenancies rose 13%, revenue 11% and adjusted EBITDA 14%; cash generated from operations fell 16% and…
Africa National Telecom
MTN partners UAE investor on African data centres
MTN Digital Infrastructure has partnered with a UAE-based investment platform to develop AI-ready data centre capacity across Africa.
Africa National Telecom
NIGCOMSAT orders NigComSat-2A from Thales Alenia Space
NIGCOMSAT has ordered a nearly four-tonne GEO satellite covering much of Africa, but no launch date, contract value or service-entry timetable has been disclosed.
Africa National Telecom
Telecel completes 1,890 4G site upgrades in Ghana
Telecel has completed about 70% of its 2026 4G site-upgrade target in Ghana, with 808 sites still to be upgraded.
Africa Regional ISP
Angola Cables links subsea network to local cloud services
Angola Cables is pairing its subsea network with local cloud and AI infrastructure, including two TelCables cloud nodes in Nigeria.
Africa Datacenter
Digital Realty opens 6.4MW Nairobi data centre
NBO2 adds 6.4MW of capacity beside Digital Realty's existing Nairobi facility and an established Kenya Internet Exchange location.
Africa Regional ISP
WIOCC signs $300m investment deal
AFC and Vision Invest have agreed to invest $300m in WIOCC Group to support data-centre, terrestrial fibre and subsea expansion across Africa.
Africa National Telecom
AXIAN Telecom H1 revenue rises 26.5% to $980m
AXIAN's first-half growth came with more subscribers and network expansion, while new financing will support further investment in Kenya and Senegal.
Africa National Telecom
Mauritius Telecom completes Learn-AI internship for 15 schools
Students and teachers spent two weeks inside Mauritius Telecom, seeing how AI tools are used across the operator’s business.
Africa National Telecom
A Tower Sale Does Not Sell the Power Bill
Selling passive mobile infrastructure can release capital and move steel, shelters and site operations to a tower company. It does not answer who pays when diesel rises, a generator burns too much fuel, a ground lease lapses or an uptime target is missed. Those outcomes live in…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps Core Network Constrained by Campus Endpoints
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report says core links were upgraded from around 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and new points of presence plus peering were added. Translating this regional upgrade into research capacity, however, depends on national research networks, campus systems, commercial…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report described core links upgraded from about 2.5 to 10 Gbps, along with new points of presence and peering. This regional gain only reaches researchers when national networks, campus systems, operators and recurrent funding can sustain it after each…
Africa Institutional
The campus edge is UbuntuNet’s service floor
A 10 Gbps regional core cannot improve research sessions that terminate behind a constrained campus circuit, firewall, Wi-Fi network or power supply.
Africa Institutional
Campus capacity needs a renewal clock
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbit/s core can outlive campus routers, optics, firewalls, batteries and support contracts. Capacity erodes when replacement dates remain implicit.