NAPAfrica, Africa’s fastest growing neutral internet exchange point (IXP), is the first African exchange to offer remote peering. The service has already been snapped up by SEACOM and Liquid Telecoms among others.
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A new report from BroadGroup suggests that the CEE data centre market is experiencing important changes and there is potential for significant growth in the region – especially as the use of outsourcing and cloud services grows.
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After a wave of regulatory penalties, including fines and a ban on promotions, Nigeria's mobile operators have announced plans to expand and upgrade their networks to cope with strong subscriptions growth and increasing data usage.
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Telstra has announced that it now has the ability to provide end-to-end network solutions to Indian customers, bolstering its network coverage and investment in India.
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South African Internet Service Provider XDSL has expanded its data centre with an additional 600m2, bolstering its existing data centre facility.
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Liquid Telecom has launched a carrier-neutral data centre in Nairobi.
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The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is building a new peering platform in Mombasa, Kenya, to help develop East Africa’s regional Internet interconnection.
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Vodacom Mozambique has ordered an eCentre of 500sqm open floor space for its new primary switching centre, to be deployed in the industrial zone of Tchumene in Matola, just outside the capital Maputo.
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Data centres are the hub of today’s organisations, housing mission-critical servers, data, applications and services that keep businesses running...
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Only three regions—Latin America, Middle East, and Africa—will see a mobile internet service revenue double-digit CAGR between 2013 and 2018, according to ABI Research. This is underpinned by the strong per subscription data consumption increasing at CAGRs of 45-49%.
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China Telecom Global is now offering services from Teraco’s vendor-neutral South African data centre, allowing it to deliver services across the country as well as link with other service providers and carriers in Africa...
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PT Data Centre Infrastructure Indonesia (PT DCI) has opened a new data centre in Indonesia in partnership with Equinix...
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Vodacom Mozambique has deployed an energy-efficient pre-fabricated data centre...
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A new alliance between a major Middle Eastern operator and a data centre firm will establish the first world-class, carrier-neutral hub in the region...
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Uganda was one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to gain full internet connectivity...
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Increasing broadband and smartphone penetration, in particular as a result of the launch of 4G networks, is affecting data growth across the BRIC markets. With a focus on India and Russia, DT looks at the impact this is having and the trends that are expected to emerge in this arena over the next few years...
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While Malaysia’s mobile market grew within expectations during 2011, 3G adoption slowed markedly in Q411...
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Two Congo-based operators – including a new start-up – have entered into an agreement to manage and maintain a carrier-neutral co-location data centre in Congo-Brazzaville...
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A new report from Swedish vendor Ericsson predicts that mobile data traffic will increase up to tenfold over the next five years, and that there will be nearly 5 billion mobile broadband subscriptions by 2016...
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Fixed broadband costs over five times more relative to average incomes in BRIC countries than in developed nations. In an interview with Developing Telecoms, Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the ITU, called on developing and emerging markets to lower the cost of broadband relative to monthly incomes in order to narrow the ‘broadband divide’...
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The GSMA has announced that mobile operators around the world will invest up to $72 billion in Mobile Broadband* technologies in 2010. The new operator CAPEX investment data, compiled by global investment firm Deutsche Bank, reflects the continued consumer and enterprise demand for Mobile Broadband services and the need for underlying infrastructure, and comes as global HSPA connections reach the 200 million milestone...

