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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…
Africa Regional ISP
Web sQuad Connect and the South African ISP Margin Behind Local Peering
The contradiction at the heart of the South African fibre market: fierce competition on the surface and a quasi-monopolistic position underneath. Can Web sQuad Connect convert local peering, support and business density into sustainable margin?
Africa National Telecom
SCPT and the DRC Problem of Owning Infrastructure Without Monetising It
The Société Congolaise des Postes et Télécommunications, usually presented as SCPT SA or historically as OCPT, is best understood as a state infrastructure conversion problem. It is not just a postal company, not just a legacy telecom operator, and not a normal ISP. It sits at…
Africa Regional ISP
VTS Burkina Faso: Fibre, Transit and Local Hosting Profile
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: national telecom dependency profile
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
A lease quote is only the starting point. Block scope, routing authorization, address reputation, renewal terms and renumbering exposure determine what the capacity really costs.
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.