MTN Nigeria officially launched the first phase of its US$235 million data centre in Lagos on Tuesday, along with a cloud service to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google.
Safaricom said on Tuesday it has entered into a strategic partnership with Kenya’s iXAfrica Data Centres to offer services leveraging the new NBOX1 hyperscale data centre in Nairobi to enterprise and cloud solutions clients.
Optical networking vendor Ciena says that HGC Global Communications is deploying its connectivity solutions to support the telco’s recently announced data centre interconnect (DCI) service in the Philippines.
Zimbabwe’s Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services said on Wednesday it will support Econet Wireless’ plan to develop an industrial park in Harare that will also include a new data centre to support the government’s upcoming national AI strategy.
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