Hengtong Aberdare (Aberdare), a subsidiary of Hengtong Group, an innovation leader in China that focuses on fibre optic, electrical and technical network construction and operations, has pledged to donate a hi-tech computer centre (“the Center”)...
After more than three weeks without the internet, residents in Somalia can now go online. Online access was restored on Monday following a blackout caused by a container ship which damaged an undersea cable connecting the Horn of Africa nation to the world....
Airtel Ghana has completed the expansion of its fibre optic cables in Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi in a development, according to Airtel, poised to enable customers experience superior network capability. This includes including speeds of up to 42mbps on...
South African president Jacob Zuma on Thursday night delivered his annual State of the Nation address, and while he focused on a broad range of issues and shortcomings in South Africa, he did take time to highlight the strides made in SA’s...
July 4, 2013 •
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The Herald reports that Liquid Telecom has partnered with Ekinops, a supplier of next generation optical transport equipment, in connection with a new long-haul Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing network across South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ...
October 3, 2012 •
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Ghana’s push for e-government in the country’s rural areas will receive a boost after Alcatel-Lucent and NITA, with the Ghana ministry of communications, agreed to expand links between government offices in the country. The goal is to develop local IT...
After nearly a month since the East African Marine System (TEAMS) fiber optic broadband cables were destroyed by a passing ship’s anchor in Mombasa, Kenya, repairs are due to start. The repairs, scheduled to take place next week, will take approximately...
Tanzania will be boosting the access of the internet and lowering the cost of connectivity in the country when it plans to fork out over $189 million on laying the national fibre optic network. The project will be jointly financed by China and Tanzania, while...
October 10, 2011 •
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Uganda, on Friday 7 October launched the second phase of it’s Internet backbone measuring 1,380 kilometers (855 miles), bringing the total length of fiber optics laid in the country so far to 1,548 km. According to Uganda’s online news service,...
September 9, 2011 •
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Kenya will soon be hooked to its fourth undersea fibre-optic cable following the laying of the France Telecom-funded Lower Indian Ocean Network 2 (LION2), The Standard reported online. The ship laying the LION2 arrived in Mombasa, Kenya on 30 August 2011,...
A study conducted by The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has revealed that more than 1 100 sub-locations in Kenya out of 7 149 lack access to voice telephony services. According to statistics released by the regulator, only 893 sub-locations in the...
Uganda’s GTV customers will have the chance to exchange their now-redundant decoders for newer versions as pay-TV is rolled out across the country. According to Mohamed Jeneby, MD of Wananchi Satellite Limited, Zuku TV will be changing its GTV decoders when...
June 11, 2011 •
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ERICSSON has launched its vision of a networked society in South Africa, an initiative that comprises of 50 billion global connections. These connections include mobile handsets, machines and other technology devices. The networked society is part of the...
May 31, 2011 •
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East African nations are combining efforts in order to bolster the fiber optic infrastructure across the region. It is part of East Africa’s move to increase Internet use and connectivity in the area. According to ComputerWorld, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania,...
Zimbabwe is increasingly shifting from the expensive and slow satellite Internet data connection to fibre optic cable as the country seeks to bring both telecoms and internet connectivity to rural areas. Next week the government’s parastatal NetOne is...
Glo 1, a high capacity undersea fibre-optic cable, has today connected Ghana to West Africa and Europe. The 9,800km long submarine cable network, the first project of its kind to be executed entirely by a single organisation, berthed on the beaches of Osu,...
