Just as undersea and terrestrial fibre connectivity is booming around and in Africa, an explosion in satellite capacity serving the region is also under way. The “dark continent” is getting connected to the global village. This week’s annual Satcom conference
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Andile Ngcaba, chairman of Convergence Partners and Dimension Data SA, says telecommunications companies must work together to build national, long-distance fibre networks in the country. Dimension Data, Convergence
A short but busy week at TechCentral translates into packed edition of this week’s episode of the TalkCentral podcast. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones look at the royal wedding and YouTube’s involvement in it, the launch
Dimension Data SA chairman Andile Ngcaba is quietly building a new type of telecommunications business under his Convergence Partners investment vehicle. From satellites to undersea cables
A new communications satellite, Intelsat New Dawn, backed by SA’s Convergence Partners and international satellite group Intelsat, successfully blasted off into space from French Guiana on Good Friday aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle
The national fibre network partnership between Cell C, Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners is on track to complete its first phase by the end of next year. Arif Hussain, CEO of FibreCo, says good progress
SA and Africa have never had it so good. Almost every month brings news of some or other big broadband project. The latest, a plan to build a high-capacity cable between Brazil, SA and Angola, will bring terabits of new
The governments of Brazil, China, Russia, India and SA have agreed to support a new, R3bn undersea cable that will connect Brazil with SA and Angola, and provide the region with onward connectivity
The launch of the SA-backed US$250m New Dawn satellite has been rescheduled after an aborted first attempt at the end of March. The satellite, which will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, will take off from a spaceport
The US$250 New Dawn satellite failed to blast off into space last night as scheduled after the launch sequence was shut down automatically. The satellite was meant to be launched last night from French Guiana