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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
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 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 Cloud Services
Interconnection does not prove workload recovery
Interconnection does not prove workload recovery intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Africa Cloud…
Africa National Telecom
Kenya bandwidth rises 16% ahead of Daraja launch
Kenya’s international bandwidth is growing faster than utilisation, while Daraja would give Safaricom a new Oman–Mombasa route for sourcing capacity.
Africa Datacenter
What AS37599 Records About Teraco—and What It Cannot Prove
What AS37599 Records About Teraco—and What It Cannot Prove intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Africa…
Africa Cloud Services
Routed Hosting's AS328032 Shows Where Cloud Traffic Interconnects, Not Whether Workloads Will Recover
Routed Hosting's AS328032 Shows Where Cloud Traffic Interconnects, Not Whether Workloads Will Recover intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Africa National Telecom
Angola Cables' 2023 Route Leak Made Path Validation an Accountability Test
Angola Cables' 2023 Route Leak Made Path Validation an Accountability Test intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
Africa Regional ISP
AS37286 makes Nigeria ICT Forum resource visibility public without proving the network behind it
AS37286 makes Nigeria ICT Forum resource visibility public without proving the network behind it intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Africa Regional ISP
AS328334 names The Phoenix Quest in the registry, while the operating boundary stays outside the route table
AS328334 names The Phoenix Quest in the registry, while the operating boundary stays outside the route table intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the…
Africa Institutional
Mauritania's 2018 ACE Cable Cut Made International Path Diversity an Accountability Test
Mauritania’s March-April 2018 connectivity crisis showed that international resilience depends on usable, independent, tested paths and verifiable restoration—not on the mere existence of routes labelled as backups.
Africa Cloud Services
C-Way Computers and the Work of Keeping Small-Business Internet Coherent
C-Way Computers is not best understood as a broadband label or a small hosting brochure. Its value is tested in the ordinary moments when a South African customer needs connectivity, DNS, email, hosting, billing and support records to agree with each other quickly enough for work…
Africa Cloud Services
BCS Group Is Tested by Route Truth, Not Service Breadth
Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group sits in the hard middle of East African digital infrastructure: close enough to carriers, data centres and cloud-facing customers to promise simplification, but dependent enough on routes, permits, upstream networks and support handoffs that…
Africa Cloud Services
TWC Hosting prices South African hosting where support carries the risk
A South African workload owner choosing between a local hosting account and generic offshore capacity is not buying only disk space. In TWC Hosting CC's public footprint, the visible offer is a Ballito-centred mix of web hosting, email, access connectivity, voice, local support…
Africa Regional ISP
IX Telecom has to prove international connectivity before the acronym sounds neutral
IX Telecom has to prove international connectivity before the acronym sounds neutral intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…