Multiple submarine cable breaks have affected South Africa’s Internet capacity this year, bringing the country close to crippling outages on a few occasions. However, the country’s geographic ...

Africa was detached from the reality of other parts of the world due to the lack of internet connectivity on the continent. The interaction level with people in other countries was low at the time ...

The Sign Africa and FESPA Africa event is a platform for visitors to get their fingers on the pulse of this vibrant, ever-evolving industry. It will assist your digital technology investments and ...

Africa Internet Group (AIG) was founded by the German tech incubator Rocket Internet in 2012 and runs an array of e-commerce companies throughout Africa. Its flagship business is the online ...

Just a month later, in March 2024, a separate set of breaks in the Wacs, Ace, Sat-3, and MainOne cables off the coast of West Africa caused severe internet blackouts across Nigeria, Ghana ...

This open call was originally published by AfriSIG.

It is the largest satellite internet provider around the world, and has already launched in several African countries. But will it be the solution to Africa’s patchy broadband access?