Frogfoot’s Shane Chorley wants to be the buyer, not the bought, as South African fibre consolidates.
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New Ciena equipment will let the Angola-Brazil-US cable route carry more data without laying new fibre.
MTN Uganda built Huawei’s LinkHome into MyMTN, putting home Wi-Fi controls on customers’ phones.
The Octotel CEO on consolidation, the economics of township roll-out and why fixed-wireless won’t do the job.
Router age, placement, band steering and neighbourhood congestion matter more than the speed you buy.
South Africa will gain a second Réunion cable at 320Tbit/s by 2028, in preparation for the retirement of the ageing Safe system.
Letting big operators coordinate rural roll-outs would leave many communities with one provider and no alternative.
Paratus Uganda launches Starlink for enterprise customers, three months after the regulator licensed SpaceX.
Businesses spend months planning a relocation and leave the connectivity until the last minute.
New shareholders have taken up shares in Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa in a transaction valuing the businesses at R14.4-billion.