Liquid Telecom

With increasing Internet penetration rates across Africa comes the demand for data centers. To this effect, Africa Data Centers has completed the acquisition of a Tier IV data center from Standard Bank in South Africa.

2Africa will be one of the world’s largest subsea cable projects and will interconnect Europe, the Middle East, and 21 landings in 16 countries in Africa. The cable system is expected to go live in 2023/4, delivering more than the total combined capacity of all subsea cables serving Africa today.

Africa is now surrounded by several high speed subsea cables connecting it to North and South America, Europe and Asia. What is more important than subsea cables is terrestrial fiber cables connecting various African countries together.

MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) Africa Regional event will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 20 September 2019. Event to also convene Summit on inclusive innovation and technology in Africa.

South Sudan is set to have its first ever fibre broadband network. The network will be implemented and operated by Liquid Telecom.

A new wildlife technology lab in Ol Pejeta Conservancy has been opened and it will fit rhinos with tracking chips to save them from poaching

Africa needs to prepare itself to be able to take advantage of the Continental Free Trade Area agreement to grow the continent's digital economy.