Posts Tagged ‘Fibre infrastructure’

Fast growth tests Africa’s networks

In recent years, the number of mobile network subscribers across Africa has grown at 35% a year, with Nigeria experiencing the largest growth at 58%.

Move to share infrastructure

Infrastructure providers are emerging that dig trenches in the ground, lay down ducting and fibre cabling and rent it to many operators and service providers at a price per kilometre.

Bandwidth boost from sea cables

Several undersea cable projects are on the go that are expected to increase South Africa’s international bandwidth capacity more than a hundredfold by the end of 2011, reports Jennigay Coetzer