Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, China Mobile, and WIOCC have announced that they will partner to build 2Africa, one of the largest subsea projects in the world, connecting 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe
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Safaricom to provide communication support to frontline healthcare workers
Kenyan operator Safaricom has agreed to provide communication resources equivalent to 195 terabytes of data, 10 million voice call minutes and 33 million SMSs to critical government healthcare workers for the next three months
Liquid Telecom Zambia installs free WiFi at COVID-19 quarantine centres
Liquid Telecom Zambia is supporting the Ministry of Health with free Internet connectivity at COVID-19 quarantine centres
Teraco to build second data centre facility in Cape Town
Data centre provider Teraco has confirmed the construction of Teraco Cape Town 2 (CT2), a new 30MW data centre facility
Vodacom welcomes launch of AWS data centres in South Africa
The world’s largest enterprise cloud computing hyperscaler, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its next wave of data centres in South Africa