Nigeria’s top digital infrastructure player MainOn is set to “aggressively” expand its data centre footprint in the Lagos region through its colocation subsidiary MDXi. The operator said it plans to build a second data centre in Lekki, dubbed Lekki II. Lekki is located to the south-east of Lagos city, has an area of 755 sqKm and has been for the last decade heavily de...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) have entered into a partnership that aims to accelerate the deployment of new and more cost-effective cellular networks, particularly in areas of the world that are underserved or unconnected. The TIP is a global community of companies and organisations focused on infrastructure solutions to advance...

Liquid Telecom’s founder and billionaire Dr Strive Masiyiwa has announced the company has secured US$500 million in equity and loans to build several data centres across the African continent. In total, the London-based tech entrepreneur is planning ten hyperscale facilities across Africa’s largest cities through the telco’s data centre business arm Africa Data Centre...