Insights from AfricaCom 2025 highlight broadband, AI and cloud as core infrastructure for an intelligent Africa.
Meta announces the completion of the core 2Africa subsea cable, which it bills as the world’s longest open access subsea cable system.
The platform’s outage caused widespread disruption across the internet, affecting major global platforms as well as users in South Africa.
Strong demand for connectivity drove a 26.7% surge in mobile data subscribers to 18.5 million, while fibre connectivity climbed to 52%.
Modern enterprises are embracing direct cloud interconnects that provide private, high-performance connections to major providers.
The South African National Energy Development Institute and Eskom are looking for ways to improve financial and billing systems.
At AfricaCom 2025, Belgium announced its support for a venture to roll out a pay-as-you-go solution for network and security requirements, especially for SMEs.
Safaricom Digital Service 2.0 was jointly launched with Huawei at the Operations Transformation Forum Africa 2025.
Low awareness and limited digital literacy hamper the effective use of available technologies, experts at the Africa Tech Festival said.
The company says much depends on the country’s ability to successfully combine its AI, power supply and spectrum strategies.
Secure Access Service Edge is a practical response to the evolving nature of networks and threats.