Browsing: Dark Fibre Africa

Cryptic cautionary lights fire under Gijima

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A cryptic cautionary statement issued to shareholders on Friday sent JSE-listed technology group Gijima’s share price soaring more than 14%. But analysts are baffled about what Gijima is up to. The share price climbed 9c

Lessons from SA’s data centre boom

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Despite the tough economy, at least one area of business is booming. Data centres, some of them vast structures costing hundreds of millions of rand each, are popping up across the countryside. We have the free market to thank

BCX puts its head in the cloud

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Cloud computing appears to be paying off in a big way for JSE-listed IT group Business Connexion (BCX), whose two new data centres in Midrand are attracting growing interest from corporate SA. Now, as demand

Flog Infraco

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State-owned Broadband Infraco, created by government to bring down national telecommunications costs, is finally launching commercial services next week. But the company’s mandate has already

iBurst ploughs R100m into fibre network

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Privately held telecommunications company iBurst is investing more than R100m in a fibre-optic communications network in Gauteng to help it better address the corporate market and grow its retail consumer subscriber base. The company is leasing capacity on Dark Fibre Africa’s network

SA gets new telecoms operator

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SA is getting a new fixed-line telecommunications network operator, TechCentral can report exclusively. The company, called Metrofibre Networx, enjoys the backing of several heavy hitters, including former Absa CEO Steve Booysen and Dark Fibre Africa co-founder Malcolm Kirby. Metrofibre Networx, which is led by Kirby, will focus almost exclusively on delivering high-speed fibre connectivity to businesses