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Africa National Telecom
Telecel Ghana After Vodafone: The National Carrier Test in a Repriced Mobile Market
Telecel Ghana After Vodafone: The National Carrier Test in a Repriced Mobile Market intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
Africa Regional ISP
Liquid Rwanda and the fibre toll behind Kigali's digital state
Kigali's digital-state ambition depends on more than fast retail broadband. Liquid Telecommunication Rwanda is economically interesting because it sells the harder thing beneath the visible speed test: a fibre path, border route, local exchange position and restoration promise…
Africa National Telecom
Orange Centrafrique and the Price of Keeping a Tower Alive
In Bangui, the price of a mobile connection is not only a tariff on a screen. It includes the fuel, security, cash liquidity, backhaul and repair discipline needed to keep a tower, a cash counter and a customer online in a country where grid power and road access cannot be…
Africa National Telecom
Mauritel and the desert coverage bill behind a cheap prepaid megabyte
Mauritel sells Mauritanian users a cheap prepaid path into the mobile internet, but every small data pass has to help pay for a national network stretched across desert towns, mining corridors, border roads, diesel-backed towers, fibre bottlenecks and maintenance teams that…
Africa Regional ISP
Internet Solutions Mozambique and the Rent Between Maputo Capacity and Inland Resilience
Internet Solutions Mozambique matters because a Maputo business does not buy resilience from a submarine cable alone. It buys an accountable path between the landing capacity near the capital, the branch that still needs service after a fibre break or power event, and the…
Africa Regional ISP
Tandaa Networks and the price of being known on the Kenyan coast
Tandaa Networks and the price of being known on the Kenyan coast 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 Regional ISP
Diesel per megabit: how Eskom rewrote a Cape Town ISP's price list
Techwood Trading, the company behind Hitech Fibre on Cape Town's West Coast, kept two price lists through South Africa's blackout years — one for wireless, one for fibre. The gap between them is the most honest record anywhere of what load-shedding actually cost a small operator…
Africa Regional ISP
EgyNet and the Economics of Absorbed Bandwidth
EgyNet is no longer best read as a standalone Egyptian access brand. Its more useful meaning is historical and economic: it was one of the private data-network assets that helped a new mobile carrier enter fixed connectivity, and its remaining public traces show how Egypt's ISP…
Africa Cloud Services
TenacIT Solutions and the service desk inside the 10G peering port
TenacIT Solutions is not economically interesting because it can outscale Amazon, Microsoft or Google in South Africa. It is interesting because it sits in the practical middle: a Gqeberha-based managed service provider, enterprise ISP and private-cloud operator using NAP Africa…
Africa National Telecom
TELCO S.A and the island arithmetic of scarce bandwidth
TELCO S.A and the island arithmetic of scarce bandwidth 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 Regional ISP
Telekom Networks Malawi carries Malawi's dependency problem, not just its traffic
Telekom Networks Malawi is best read as a national-dependency operator. The company sells voice, data, broadband, enterprise connectivity and mobile money, but its larger economic role is to keep a small, landlocked, foreign-exchange-constrained economy connected when power…
Africa Regional ISP
Liquid Kenya and the Enterprise Fiber Margin
Liquid Telecommunications Kenya Limited is interesting for what it is not: not a consumer operator, not a submarine cable owner, not a residential broadband leader. It operates as a Kenyan entity within a pan-African group, with an advantage in enterprise fiber, wholesale…
Africa National Telecom
Malawi Telecommunications Limited and the Arithmetic of the Fixed Network That No Longer Works
Malawi Telecommunications Limited is not hard to identify. It is its valuation that is complex.
Africa Regional ISP
Liquid South Africa and the Price of Reliable Enterprise Fibre
Wholesale fibre and cloud adjacency in South Africa are no longer markets for raw bandwidth. They are markets for continuity. The buyer is not paying only for Mbps; it is paying to keep branches online, route transactions to cloud platforms without unpredictable public-internet…
Africa Regional ISP
Abidjan, Peering, and the Price of Keeping Traffic at Home
The core question is not whether Côte d’Ivoire has an Internet exchange point in any formal sense. It does. CIVIX is a functioning national IXP in Abidjan, established in 2013, managed by the telecom regulator ARTCI, visible in major routing and peering directories, and carrying…
Africa Cloud Services
cloud.mu and the Island Cloud Problem
An island cloud, not a hyperscale rival. The most important thing about cloud.mu is that it is not trying to be “the Mauritian AWS”. It is a local hosting platform that sells web hosting, VPS, backups and dedicated servers, focused on jurisdictional familiarity, local support and…
Africa Regional ISP
The Price of a Detour: IXPN and the Economics of Keeping Nigerian Traffic Local
A local packet shouldn't need a foreign passport. When a Lagos user accesses a service hosted in Nigeria but the route goes abroad, the waste is not just cosmetic. It burns foreign-currency transit capacity, adds latency, and increases outage risk. Analysys Mason calls it…
Africa National Telecom
SONATEL: Rent, Risk and Reach of a West African Incumbent Operator
SONATEL must be understood not as a simple Senegalese telecom operator, but as a rent-bearing infrastructure system whose revenues are generated by three superimposed layers of advantage: an inherited fixed-network and spectrum position in Senegal, a mass-market mobile and Orange…
Africa Regional ISP
MSTelcom and the Oil-Field Logic of Angolan Connectivity
MSTelcom is easiest to misunderstand if it is evaluated as a normal consumer telecom operator. The public evidence points to a different economic species: an Angolan enterprise-connectivity operator born from Sonangol’s industrial requirements, then extended into corporate fixed…
Africa Regional ISP
Multitel and the Business of the Reliable Alternative in Angola
Multitel should not be seen as a large-scale independent competitor challenging the Angolan telecom establishment. Evidence points to a narrower position: a **managed network and enterprise connectivity specialist**, selling reliability, tailored design, and hybrid access, in a…