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e& has Careem super app – you’ll believe a telco can fly

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e& has Careem super app – you’ll believe a telco can fly

Uber services for drones, phones and dromedaries

Emirates flagship telco e& has secured a Super App machine on which to create services to run over an increasingly omnipotent and omniscient network infrastructure that’s operated by ChatGPT and extending from satellites to smartphones, to the IoT at sea. The main user group catered for by the Careem super app machine will be the ‘digital first’ generation of users who organise their entire lives through their mobiles and are happy to pay for the privilege.

The telco formerly known as Etisalat, now branded as e&, has bought a 50.03% stake in the Careem Super App for $400 million. That majority holding gives e& access to a powerful creative hot house spun off by the Middle Eastern division of Uber Technologies. It gives e& license to tailor a wealth of new mobile enabled services, building on Uber staples like food and shopping delivery and then to push on and create services that fit the lifestyles of the people of the Middle East. According to the official release this may include obvious options such as a range of fintech services to suit regional audiences and income groups. Its creative teams may push beyond the domain of the digital wallet and create third-party services with partners to offer home cleaning, laundry and rentals for everything from cars to camels (pictured).

The ownership of Careem gives it unlimited options for creating new services, building on an established base that is available to customers in ten markets in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. According to e&, the signing of Careem to its team will make it the “a regional super app champion” with the world’s first “everything app” for customers in the Middle East through expansion of the app’s core services. The investment funding that e& can put behind Careem could create ‘significant synergies’ with e&, it sad, and it anticipates benefiting from e&’s large customer base and extensive experience scaling complex tech enabled businesses across a largely shared geographic footprint, said the official announcement.

Business continuity will be assured because the contributing genius of Careem founders Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson has been secured, after the deal has been through regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. The steering of the founders over the direction of future apps will be exemplary in how all telcos manage to create their own content. The building of e&’s consumer digital offerings is a cornerstone of its metamorphosis into a global technology and investments group, according to e& Group CEO Hatem Dowidar. The Careem Super App plays an important role beyond the immediate goal of providing powerful financial service offerings, Dowidar said. Super apps will catalyse the economic, social and cultural growth of emerging markets.

“The popularity of super apps came from the need for a seamless customer experience,” said Dowidar. Building on that, there is now a ‘mobile first population’ who have created their own ‘scene’, almost like a youth movement, only with mobile technology rather than music being the centre piece. Their demands, in turn, are creating ‘super apps’, which are like super groups only with different user expectations.

These ‘Mobi-boomers’ perform their daily activities on digital platforms and it is vital that e& understands them. It will use Careem to push “the boundaries of customer experience” in the region. As a telco with ambitions for modern ‘tech-co’ status, e& has form as a digital innovator. In March ME reported how, while others hesitate over the implications of ChatGPT, e& has boldly built a lead in artificial intelligence by putting ChatGPT at heart of business ops. It is also pioneering new developments in satellite to mobile services with Eutelsat,  Cyber intelligence and the Internet of Things.

Vodafone Ghana connects customers to Lynk’s satellite to smartphone service

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Vodafone Ghana connects customers to Lynk’s satellite to smartphone service

From outer space to the Ashanti

Satellite to smart phone specialist Lynk has signed its second commercial contract with Telecel Group in Africa to provide direct satellite to smartphone networking services to Vodafone Ghana’s subscribers. This new contract will provide mobile coverage to 100% of Ghana’s population of 31 million inhabitants using Lynk’s self-proclaimed cell-towers in space.

After the takeover of its majority shares by Telecel Group, Vodafone Ghana is using the partnership between Lynk and Telecel Group to invent new types of service and provide widespread mobile coverage across the notorious Ashanti region and other of Ghana’s vast rural areas (pictured).

“Lynk is the only patented, proven and commercially-licensed company for satellite-direct-to-standard-phone technology anywhere in the world,” said Lynk CEO Charles Miller, “this agreement extends Lynk’s leadership in the satellite-direct-to-standard-phone category in Africa and is an important milestone as interest in the category continues to heat up.”

Lynk’s low orbit flying cell towers will allow Telecel Group to offer ubiquitous geographic coverage to over 6 million Vodafone Ghana subscribers and used to extend rural coverage, including Maritime Economic Zone, as a backup to ensure service resilience, continuity of IoT devices. They are increasingly important as a terrestrial tower replacement for underperforming towers, which are difficult to cost justify for both technical reasons – such as reliability and liability to theft – and even for economic output metrics.

“We are excited at the possibilities this partnership brings to the country,” said Vodafone Ghana  CEO Patricia Obo-Nai,”it provides the unique opportunity to connect everyone everywhere and accelerates the benefits that connectivity offers in health, education, and job creation, especially for our women and youth.’’

Bouygues Telecom to pay €308m damages to rival – Free wanted a billion!

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Bouygues Telecom to pay €308m damages to rival – Free wanted a billion!

Nine years of litigation ends in Paris Court

Bouygues Telecom has conceded that it may have to pay out damages of €308 million ($328 million) to rival Free Mobile in the short term, following a February 2023 Paris Commercial Court ruling, reports TeleGeography’s Comms Update. Bouygues had taken the matter to the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal, but an order dated 5 April 2023 dismissed Bouygues’ request to stop the immediate execution of the decision, as ‘there was no evidence that it was impossible to enforce the ruling’.

The litigation started in 2014, when Free Mobile opened legal proceedings against its main competitors Orange and Bouygues Telecom (but not the challenger mobile operator Iliad) over the pair’s handset subsidy offerings, which it claimed would bind customers into a long-term commitment with a single operator. It initially sought damages worth €1.5 billion from the two companies. The Paris Commercial Court’s February 2023 ruling stated that there must be ‘immediate execution of the judgement’, which Bouygues Telecom believes is incorrect given the proceedings were initiated before 1 January 2020. Bouygues Telecom said that it ‘disputes this ruling in the strongest possible terms and considers that its bundled offers are legal’, adding that ‘the company acted in strict compliance with the law.’

Spain to spend €50 million on 5G MoD

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Spain to spend €50 million on 5G MoD

Army and Navy use 5G to arm ‘arder

The Spanish government’s Ministry of Defense has launched several tenders worth €50 million in total to install private 5G networks for the military, according to Spanish newspaper Expansión. Armies will be mobilised, ships will be become sensitive from fore to aft with all robotic hands on deck, while the air force will have its own channel for military emergencies.

The largest tender is for a project to build a testing and training centre to provide cyber defence training to the military. The second tender requires the launch of two private 5G standalone networks for two military facilities in Madrid. The Spanish navy is also seeking a portable private network communication system for two of its ships to reduce the dependence on satellite communications. Finally, the Spanish air force is also interested in setting up private networks for its hangars. The first call for tenders was expected to launch at the end of March 2023.

The Armed Forces are continuing with their digital transformation plan and have set their sights on the installation of 5G private networks with the launch of several tenders to launch projects of this type by the hand of telecommunications operators for around €50 million, according to Expansión.

The Ministry of Defense has launched tenders aimed at the three main branches of the Army for the installation of these networks, which provide cybersecurity and latency and a new avenue of income for the various actors in the telecommunications sector. The tenders have several common features, such as the use of the emergency procedure and the Recovery Plan funds.

Adif, the railway infrastructure manager, is another agency running 5G in a public sector area. It has already promoted several tenders and is evaluating offers for the largest 5G network tendered in Spain, with a contract of more than €100 million. Meanwhile the largest Armed Forces project under tender consists of the creation and use of a development, training and testing centre for military operations in cyber defence with 5G technology. This complex is being created with a €28.4 million budget divided into several lots, intended to create laboratories and simulation systems, according to Europa Press. The contract has an execution time of 36 months and the first offers will be opened at the end of the month.

Meanwhile the Spanish Army has also launched a contract for €5 million for the use of two 5G multiservice wireless networks in the barracks of San Cristóbal and Colmenar Viejo in Madrid. The Defence objective is to create two standalone 5G networks that provide service, among other facilities, to the battleship and helicopter maintenance centres that are on the premises. Another of the units interested in acquiring a deployable and high-capacity 5G private network is the Military Emergency Unit (UME), which has launched a process valued at €1.5 million.

Among the conditions of the specification, there is the provision of a minimum of 100 5G SA SIM cards, that the core of the network has the capacity to transmit at least 20 Gbps to the base stations. For its part, the Navy is bidding for €6million for the installation of a deployable and portable private network on one of its ships and a receiver system on another of them to reduce the dependence of this branch of the Army on satellite communications. The successful bidder must provide at least 20 terminals and 100 SIM cards to the Navy and connection for up to 1,000 devices. The project also contemplates the ‘sensorisation’ and robotisation of elements of the ships, as well as the establishment of 5G communications at the Naval Base of Rota and the establishment of 5G-based communications in a Third of Infantería de María.

Finally, the networks of the Air and Space Army will be used in logistics environments of hangars located at the Maestranza Aérea in Madrid and at the one in Albacete. In this case, Defensa will pay around €2 million euros for the installation of a private and secure network that allows coverage of an area of about 25,000 square meters with capacity for a 1Gbps connection with between 25 and 35 milliseconds of latency with up to 1,000 connected devices.

One bad Apple can spoil whole mobile apps market – German cartel watcher

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One bad Apple can spoil whole mobile apps market – German cartel watcher

Bundeskartellamt reads it the Competition Act

Germany’s Cartel-watch agency Bundeskartellamt has judged that Apple could be applying cartel pressure with a profound significance for competition across Germany’s tech markets and launched a new investigation that could end in action against it. Apple and its subsidiaries are subject to extended abuse control pursuant to Section 19a of the German Competition Act (GWB), an amendment to Germany’s competition act. In a two step process the Bundeskartellamt can prohibit companies from engaging in anti-competitive practices.

“Apple has an economic position of power across markets which gives rise to a scope of action that is not sufficiently controlled by competition,” said Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt. Apple’s iPhone gives it omnipotence over a wide-ranging digital ecosystem which is of great importance to competition throughout Europe and the world. Its proprietary products like iOS and the App Store make it the supreme gatekeeper over access to the ecosystem and Apple customers. “This decision enables us to specifically take action against and effectively prohibit anti-competitive practices,” said Mundt.

Specific practices used by Apple have alerted the Bundeskartellamt to its tracking rules and the App Tracking Transparency Framework in a previous proceeding in June 2022. The German authority said it is particularly suspicious that these rules favour Apple’s own offers and impede others. So far, no decision has been taken on initiating further proceedings against Apple.

With a $400 billion turnover and profit nearing $100 billion in 2022, Apple is an apex predator in technology, dominating the entire value chain relating to high-quality mobile digital end devices, while developing its own central components, such as processors. While Apple develops the software, especially mobile operating systems like iOS, for itself, the same applies to the platform for mobile software distribution on the devices, the App Store, argues Mundt. Apple’s offer is complemented by a number of other hardware, software and service products but it holds a dominant position on all vertically related levels based on its smartphones, tablets and smart watches.

Based on this tight proprietary vertical structure and an installed base of more than 2 billion active devices worldwide, Apple is active in many ways on market levels and business areas that are linked to each other. It is therefore in a position to tie its users to its complex ecosystem on a long-term basis, said Mundt. This is associated with a strong power to set rules for third parties, above all for app developers.

The validity of the Bundeskartellamt’s decision is limited to five years in accordance with statutory provisions and a case summary of its decision can be accessed here. Prior to the proceeding against Apple the Bundeskartellamt had already determined the paramount significance across markets of Google owner Alphabet, Meta AKA Facebook and Amazon. Another proceeding was initiated against Microsoft.

How 5G served Vodafone Qatar’s Al Bayt Al 3oud Ramadan campaign

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How 5G served Vodafone Qatar’s Al Bayt Al 3oud Ramadan campaign

Prophets and knowledge are not a bad legacy

Vodafone Qatar (VQ) has won accolades for its skilful and creative use of 5G connectivity to find personal fulfilment during the holy month of Ramadan. Through its cultural sensitivity it has helped devotees stay connected with friends and family, and enjoy a healthy and active lifestyle during the sacred festival, according to regional news outlet Gulf Times. The newspaper said the Al Bayt Al 3oud series of TV adverts struck a chord with the populace and this exemplified how religion, art and commerce need not be mutually exclusive. It also serves to remind that knowledge in Qatar’s libraries (pictured) and the stories kept alive by prophets are not a bad legacy.

The modernity and sophistication of VQ’s content created an unprecedented level of spirituality for the medium of mobile content, by its imaginative setting of a Ramadan-themed sitcom, featuring guest stars Mohamed Saadon al-Kuwari and Majed al-Mansoori. In the story, Vodafone’s 5G technology offers an instant solution to a struggling central character during a game of Padel by easing his worries and restoring his confidence with the help of its unlimited volumes of data delivered a high velocity and unshakeable veracity. Is there an obvious metaphor here, between the strong mobile network and an unshakeable moral framework that faith can bestow?

Vodafone Qatar was named as the World’s Fastest Mobile Network by testing company Ookla. It has led 5G deployment in Qatar since 2019 under its commitment to consumer connectivity to consumers and business continuity. In the last four years the mobile operator’s 5G offerings, through packages like Unlimited 300, Unlimited 375 and Unlimited VIP, all share the same core of unlimited local calls and SMS, data roaming across 155 countries and 500 international minutes.


Vodafone Qatar launched the five-episode series ‘Al Bayt Al 3oud,’ translated as ‘The Big House,’ earlier in Ramadan to demonstrate the pivotal role of technology in uniting family, celebrating tradition, and building community. The series was created by Qatari filmmaker Hamida Issa who invented creative new experiences through connecting with different members of a family, bringing his message across through relatable stories as they tackle various conflicts in Ramadan.


VQ’s plan is to invest and develop its 5G products to help the people make a  well planned ‘digital transformation journey’ where much thought has gone into the cultural experience of the destination. The new online world is an environment that fosters not just a digitally-connected Qatari society, but an culturally advanced one, according to Vodafone Qatar chief operating officer Diego Camberos. To see how VQ pulled this off, search your social media channels for the weekly episodes of #AlBaytAl3oud or see Vodafone Qatar’s Ramadan campaign.

The knock-on effect is that VQ has inspired the creation of many connected cultural initiatives, with an imagination that is sometimes lacking in other major religions. This Ramadan, Qatar Foundation (QF) is screening a series of special episodes of

its 3D edutainment TV series, that are religiously significant and offer an engaging way for children to learn Islamic values and morals, Gulf Times reports. Now that technology is a dominant our lives, it is essential to have educational programmes like Siraj for children, according to Sulaiman Timbo Bah, community engagement and outreach co-ordinator at Minaretein Centre.

These keep the culture of each community alive, rather than lowering the ‘digital generation’ into morality free abyss of Silicon Valley, which is so awful that even many of Big Tech’s inventors try to protect their children from it. “The programme’s series on the Prophets and their teachings provides an excellent opportunity to instil values that are essential for children’s overall growth and development. Each episode focuses on a specific ethical or moral value, such as patience and courage, from an Islamic perspective. It is a great way to teach children about the attributes of the Prophets and how to emulate them in their lives,” said Bah.


“These stories are old, so it’s important to place them in a modern context that resonates with our time. That’s why we start with a relatable scenario between Rashid and Noura – the two main characters – and then draw on the timeless wisdom of the Prophets. It’s fascinating to see how much we can learn from the past and apply to the present,” said Bah. The lesson is that digital transformation does not have to involve destroying your ‘legacy’ as ‘disruptive’ technology vendors would urge us to do.

Agents ‘trailing a coat’ for $4 billion sale of Vodafone Spain

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Agents ‘trailing a coat’ for $4 billion sale of Vodafone Spain

New chapter of merger mystery

Vodafone Group’s Spanish telco division is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers, including Apollo Global Management, reports Bloomberg’s sources close to the sales process. Vodafone is not running a formal sale process for the unit, but The UK telco group would consider offers at the right price, it said. Vodafone’s Spanish unit could sell for over $4 billion, said its sources, but deliberations are ongoing and there’s no certainty they’ll result in a sale of the Spanish operation. Both Apollo Global Management and Vodafone declined to comment.

Vodafone’s business in Spain has shrunk in the face of competition from incumbent carrier Telefónica, France’s Orange and private equity-backed MásMóvil Ibercom. From 2018 to 2022, its revenue generated in the country fell 16% to about €4.2 billion ($4.6 billion).

Nick Read, Vodafone’s former chief executive officer, had sought a merger in Spain in 20212, and again last year, only to miss out when Orange Spain and Masmovil agreed to combine there at the end of 2022. Interim Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle (pictured) has since relegated Spain from one of Vodafone’s main markets, folding it into a group of smaller units such as Ireland and Greece. Colman Deegan departed as Vodafone’s CEO in Spain in March.

Newbury-based Vodafone has been under pressure to simplify its business and pursue deals to unlock value for investors and revive a flagging share price that’s fallen almost 60% over the last five years. The stock closed up 2.3% in London on Wednesday, giving the company a market value of £24.1 billion (€27.53 billion).

Vodafone has been largely frustrated in these efforts. While it’s managed to sell smaller units in countries like Hungary and a stake in its mast unit, Vantage Towers, it’s struggled with transactions in larger markets.

In addition to missing out on the Spain deal, Vodafone last year rebuffed an offer from French telecoms billionaire Xavier Niel for its Italian unit. Months-long talks about a British merger with Three UK, meanwhile, have yet to close. Strategic investors and some-time rivals Niel, Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC and Liberty Global Plc have bought up more than a fifth of Vodafone in the last year, raising questions about how they might influence strategy at the British group going forward.

BT testing vCDN, a mobile thirst responder for fatal traffic congestion

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BT testing vCDN, a mobile thirst responder for fatal traffic congestion

CDN gets virtually everywhere

UK telco BT is experimenting with a Virtual Content Delivery Network (vCDN) whose software-born caches allow it to pop-up at selected points in the national comms grid to satisfy huge demands for bandwidth. The typical mobile network network is being choked by requests for the same content. With mobile game releases now exceeding 100GB in size and other events temporarily creating massive traffic, BT refining a traditional network traffic management to make it more flexible. The new vCDN is a ‘mobile thirst responder’ whose software-driven solution to congestion can instantly arrive at the scene of an incident and apply its ‘cache pads’ to instantly decongest the network.

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and systems are already used to manage network traffic by keeping a cache of the most popular material in a distribution box close to the end-users. BT says the model needs updating. Most CDN infrastructure lacks the scalability and flexibility that content caching needs in the modern network game. As demand for ‘continent’ continues to evolve BT sees vCDNs as a more versatile approach to a wider range of challenges.

Traditional CDNs are tightly coupled with an underlying fixed hardware, which stifles their movements. However, an uncoupling of the system allows the decisions to be software based. This disaggregated software-based vCDN cache can be tactically deployed at a moment’s notice in the places it is needed. This flexibility liberates it to reach selected points, deeper in the network, instantly and to bring content closer to the ‘edge’ where their customers consume it. According to BT, which has been experimenting just such a solution its engineers have been “excited by the initial results” reports analyst Mark Jackson in ISP Review.

It’s like building more delivery stations to get closer to customers but these ones are mobile and can be where the demand is instantly, according to Howard Watson, BT’s Chief Security and Networks Officer. This flexibility supports workload management as content can be cached by software in a specific location for a short period of time. Once a local football derby is over, the virtual content delivery manager can re-shape and ship out.

“By placing the caches deepe’ in the network, the number of network hops needed to distribute content from the edge is reduced,” said Watson, “This frees up network capacity to be and reduces pressure on our core network. This also means a speedier delivery and enables better quality and reliability for customers, whilst offering energy efficiencies to us, through a need for less physical space and lower power consumption.”

In the past year BT has run a live vCDN trial with partners, including Qwilt, a provider of CDN services that is already deployed in BT’s network. Serving a variety of content, from video-on-demand and livestream TV content, to gaming downloads, the trial has successfully shown how a vCDN can enable high-levels of cache efficiency, Watson claimed.

In its latest trial, BT says it saw cache efficiency of 70-90% at peak times with the “highest values for live TV consumption, while popular video game releases also drove very high levels of efficiency. With mobile game releases now exceeding 100GB in size, BT says “wider collaboration” within the comms industry will be needed. Virtual content delivery management could play an important role in the content ecosystem as mobile network operators try to manage the delivery TV and video over their networks, said BT.

Illuminate run hackwatch operation for Edinburgh telco

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Illuminate run hackwatch operation for Edinburgh telco

Cyber security can see you teefy

Service provider Illuminate has been asked to run cyber security services, using its analytics instincts and specially designed tools to nip problems in the bud for a national telecommunications network. Its brief is to build a sort of online Edinburgh Castle (see pic) which fortifies its Scottish client and gives splendid vantage points it many detention spots for isolating intruders.

Though based in the capital Illuminate will provide its Watchdog cyber intrusion detection and forensic analysis solution for a country-wide communication network. Watchdog will monitor, detect and forensically inspect traffic anomalies at points of network interconnect.  Watchdog is designed to protect against security vulnerabilities within the legacy communications protocols such as Signalling System 7 (SS7) and the its more modern equivalent, Diameter. In future the role will expand as 5G Roaming traffic presents the hackers with more opportunities to penetrate the fortress.

Illuminate has formed a pact with P1 Security, a ten year veteran of telecom insecurities, which will pass on the secrets of its software tools suite to Watchdog.P1 has unique knowledge of telecom monitoring, signalling and intrusion detection systems. It claims that its unique vulnerability knowledge base knows every weakness known the hacker groups and more.

The collaboration between Illuminate and P1 Security lets operators, government agencies and law enforcement concentrate on vulnerabilities in the critical network infrastructure. It knows how to spot and identify attacks at scale, on networks serving tens to hundreds of millions of subscribers and supporting economies of one or several countries at a time. The number of enterprises affected by the security of these infrastructures is embarrassingly high and the national security value derived from such level of protection brings nation-states to the forefront of information and technology security, according to Illuminate managing director Dr Iain Goodfellow.

“We are honoured to have been chosen to protect this national communications network,” said Goodfellow. Illuminate has spent decades working in the network assurance space and has developed significant experience in identifying unusual behaviour in networks, so it’s perfectly positioned to be the cyber security for a telco network, Goodfellow said.

Watchdog is good at spotting denial of service attacks, voice and message redirect or financial fraud. It can spot an anomaly and flag it before you can say SS7 and immediately stick a P1 Security signalling on it. In te words of the military tattoo (see pic) any army of Distributed service deniers will instantly be spotted on the landscape’s wee bit hill and glen. Illuminate will soon send these armies homeward ‘tae think again’.

Big Tech’s path to Zambia is LIT with understanding

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Big Tech’s path to Zambia is LIT with understanding

The rest is hyperscalery

Liquid Intelligent Technologies (LIT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Zambia to expedite the country’s digital transformation, get everyone online and attract Big Tech inward investment. The MOU was signed by Felix Mutati, Zambia’s Minister of Technology and Science and Nic Rudnick, Group Deputy Chairman of Liquid Intelligent Technologies at the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Doha (pictured) Qata.

According to the Zambia Inclusive Digital Economy Status Report 2022 only 53% of Zambians are digitally-included. The effect on the country’s socio-economic development has persuaded its government to prioritise digital transformation. The agreement with LIT, an offshoot of Cassava Technologies, builds on its series previous investments since it arrived in the landlocked Republic of Zambia in 2011. The MoU is that its Zambian offshoot Liquid Zambia will build a new data centre in Lusaka catering for local businesses and hyperscalers establishing their presence in Zambia. 

The planned expansion of Liquid’s fibre network will connect towns across the country and will build the physical infrastructure to connect schools and clinics along Liquid’s network. The group will work with the government to offer public and private cloud, with cyber security systems supporting the digitisation of government services. Liquid said these activities and investments, coupled with further expansion of the network across Zambia’s borders will position Zambia as a strong hub of digital activity in the region, which lies at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to by global content delivery planners as Southern Africa at its most central point.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies is a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group with operations in over 25 countries in Africa. Liquid has firmly established itself as the leading provider of pan-African digital infrastructure with a 100,000km-long fibre broadband network and satellite connectivity that provides high-speed access to the Internet anywhere in Africa.

“We recognise the significant efforts that the Zambian government is making to accelerate the country’s digital transformation and share His Excellency, President Hichilema’s vision for the development of Zambia’s digital economy. Given the conducive investment environment, we are committed to further investments in Zambia’s digital infrastructure,” said Hardy Pemhiwa, President and Group CEO, Cassava Technologies.

“Zambia is our home and we are committed to seeing the country thrive,” said LIT CEO Mark Townsend, “The Liquid Zambia team is excited to be continuing our partnership with the Zambian government. Contributing meaningfully to its socio-economic growth and infrastructural development, by offering our knowledge, skills and infrastructure services is important to us.” 

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