PIDG’s Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund anchors $420mn bond issue by telco founded and grown in Africa

London, UK. 15th February 2022 – Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) was an anchor investor in a recent successful bond issue by African telecommunications and digital

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Raxio Uganda launches enterprise-grade, tier III certified carrier-neutral data centre

Raxio has officially launched Uganda’s state of the art Tier III carrier-neutral data centre at its site in the Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP), Uganda.

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Cybersecurity solution vendors must change their approach to benefit from the operator channel

Operators provide an attractive route to market for vendors of cyber-security solutions: They have a large customer base, and bundling security products with connectivity is a logical move, says Tom

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Demand for ‘innovative and agile’ BSS for digital and 5G services drives Openet to open new offices

Openet, a provider of Digital BSS, announced that it has opened two new offices in Canada and South Africa, to better meet global demand for its innovative digital BSS portfolio. The

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Liquid Telecom selects Nokia to deploy multiple 100G DWDM/OTN channel network in East Africa for expanded broadband services

Liquid Telecom Kenya, part of the pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, and Nokia announced a two-year partnership to upgrade their existing fiber network to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network

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Liquid Telecom to invest US$400mn in Egyptian network infrastructure and data centres

Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom is investing 8 billion Egyptian Pounds (US$400million) (€349.2 million) in Egypt over the next three years. This is part of a major partnership with Telecom

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