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Africa company intelligence maps internet infrastructure operators, cloud service providers, telecom networks, data centre companies, registries, alliances, standards bodies, and institutional market actors across African internet infrastructure markets.
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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
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 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 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 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 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
Virtual Technologies and Solutions SA
The dependency surface is strategic for Burkina Faso. Fibre routes, international transit, IX participation and local hosting can influence resilience, cost and latency. For a landlocked country, a provider that links access, backhaul and interconnection can have market…
Africa National Telecom
Orange Madagascar SA
The dependency surface covers consumer access, enterprise connectivity and international reachability. If Orange Madagascar changes network investment, licence status, interconnection posture or international capacity, the impact can be felt across a national market where…
Africa Cloud Services
Sovereignty and value in IPv4 capital
The IPv4 market reveals a sovereignty inversion where digital assets are traded but still administratively controlled globally
Africa Datacenter
Microsoft
Microsoft and G42 stall Kenya data centre talks over capacity guarantees amid rising demand risk in AI infrastructure.
Africa Institutional
IANA
An analytical look at IPv4 lease pricing in 2026, exploring scarcity, block size, region and term impacts with real case data and expert insights.
Africa Institutional
Who holds the Internet’s address book? Why digital sovereignty may be a mirage
Analysis of digital sovereignty debates and why control of internet identifiers does not equal power over the network.
Africa Institutional
From victim to survivor in IP capital structures
Explore how IPv4 scarcity and RIR control create structural survivorship dynamics in internet infrastructure economies
Africa Institutional
Gulf conflict threatens key submarine cables
Conflict in the Gulf threatens key submarine cables that carry global internet and AI data traffic between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Africa Institutional
The Great African IP Lock-In: How a Disputed Board is Trapping Millions in Digital Assets
IPv4 scarcity has turned unused blocks into valuable assets, offering ISPs new opportunities for strategic growth.
Africa Cloud Services
Tencent Cloud plans Middle East data centre expansion
Tencent Cloud is planning new data centres across the Middle East as IT spending in the region continues to grow.
Africa Regional ISP
Fixed broadband grows with FWA and satellite reshape last‑mile competition
Fixed broadband continues to grow, while FWA and satellite broadband reshape competition in the last mile.
Africa Institutional
Does IPv6 have capital value?
Exploring how IPv6’s virtually infinite address space affects economic value compared with IPv4’s tradable scarcity-driven assets.
Africa Cloud Services
How much is an IPv4 address worth in 2026
How much IPv4 addresses are worth in 2026, with market pricing, leasing dynamics and structural scarcity shaping digital capital value.
Africa Institutional
The long road to IPv4 exhaustion
A factual look at how IPv4 exhaustion unfolded and reshaped internet governance worldwide over three decades.