Airtel Africa, SpaceX trials data and messaging tests of Starlink Mobile in Kenya
Builds on the agreement between the companies last year
Builds on the agreement between the companies last year
Following previous delays in the Red Sea amid Houthi attacks
Now wants to hit 2.5 tenants per tower
Hosted at iXAfrica data center in Nairobi
But all plans are preliminary
Aims to improve resilience of operations and speed up transaction time
Expected to be delivered over 15 years
Almost all of the continent's capacity is located in South Africa
The South African telco will snap up the 75 percent stake in IHS that it doesn't own
Some of which will be spent on AI infrastructure
The cross-border fiber project aims to create a resilient terrestrial fiber corridor
The carrier owns a minority stake at present
Signs MoU with Schneider Electric to develop 'green' data centers across the country
Data center designed to meet Tier III standards
Working with Gabonese government and Cisco on project
Company expands in Samrand
Services have gone live in parts of Tripoli
Two data centers offer a combined storage capacity of 3PB
Oracle first announced plans for Kenyan region in 2024
Will seek to identify underutilized capacity within distribution networks and develop on-site energy systems to support data center growth
Internet services were largely offline for four days last week
First tranche of 18 million credit deal signed last year
It's not the first time this has happened
Will be located in Addis Adaba for Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs