MTN Guinea – inadequate backhaul holding West Africa back
Great strides have been made to grow broadband connectivity in Africa in the past five years. However, despite this growth, West Africa still has to overcome massive challenges to fully integrate into the digital More...
Alcatel-Lucent and WACS signs contract
Alcatel-Lucent and the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium have signed a contract for the maintenance of more than 9,000km of the WACS system linking Africa to Portugal. In commercial service since May More...
WIOCC’s European cable repaired
Repairs to the submarine cable delivering most of WIOCC’s (West Indian Ocean Cable Company) connectivity to Europe were completed on Wednesday April 17th and WIOCC customer traffic is currently being migrated More...
Liquid Telecom strengthens East African fibre network
Liquid Telecom has announced significant improvements to its fibre network along the East African coast which have already reduced congestion, improved connectivity and resulted in the lowest latency rates on the More...
Liquid Telecom lays fibre to the DRC
Liquid Telecom has announced at AfricaCom 2012 that it has extended its fibre network to the Democratic Republic of Congo connecting Lubumbashi, the second largest city in the DRC. This provides Lubumbashi with More...
Liquid Telecom focuses on fibre for Zimbabwe
Liquid Telecom has announced two initiatives that the company believes will improve broadband services in Zimbabwe: the country’s first direct fibre connection to the West African Cable System (WACS) and the More...
Signed, WACS and delivered – now what? The opportunity for West and Central Africa
Construction of the $650 million West Africa Cable System (WACS) began in 2009 and was completed in April 2011. On target, a little over a year later (11 May 2012) the first traffic ran over the cable… from South More...
IS connects directly into WACS with fibre link
Dimension Data subsidiary, Internet Solutions (IS) has boosted its ability to deliver capacity on the West Africa Cable System (WACS) to clients following the launch of a fibre optic cable ring between the WACS More...
Q&A: SEACOM’s CEO Mark Simpson
SEACOM recently celebrated the 3rd anniversary of its commercial launch. The company remains focused on the objective of helping to bring about ‘a fully connected society’ by 2020. IT News Africa caught More...
MTN Nigeria rolls out services with WACS
MTN Nigeria has started making use of the West African Cable System (WACS) cable by launching a range of services running on the high-capacity submarine cable. The services are managed by MTN Business and will provide More...