Liquid Dataport, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, today announced it has launched the first terrestrial fibre connecting Mombasa to Johannesburg. This new route, including a breakthrough and unique fibre link across DRC between Goma and Kananga, provides multiple landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to

Microsoft and Viasat have announced a partnership to help deliver internet access to 5 million people in Africa and another 5 million globally. Viasat is the first satellite partner to work with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative to deepen Airband’s work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Guatemala, Mexico, and the

It’s almost 11 years since Kenya and East Africa got connected to by the East African Marine System (TEAMS) submarine cable which set the stage for the transformation of the regional digital economy that we are currently experiencing. So much has changed since then that it’s hard to imagine that