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| Aug 20, 2025 | Nigeria: Mobile Telephony and Fixed Lines | SONNY ARAGBA-AKPORE writes that fixed telephone lines are no longer attractive
Prospects of fixed telephone lines making headlines are over as many people are no longer excited about installing fixed line in their homes or offices.
The emph... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Why data centre investors are flocking to Lagos’ coastline | To get a slice of Lagos’ booming data center market—projected to reach 80 megawatts (MW) by 2027—global investors are pouring capital into Victoria Island and the Lekki Peninsula, two of the city’s most affluent urban neighborhoods.
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| Feb 6, 2025 | Experience the Next Level of Cloud Innovation with MainOne’s Managed Private Cloud | In today’s fast-paced, digital-first world, businesses are under pressure to stay innovative, agile, and secure—all while managing costs and meeting compliance demands. The question is, how do you achieve all this without compromising on pe... |
| Dec 13, 2024 | YC-backed internet provider Tizeti will become the first Nigerian startup to list on IPO-starved NGX | Tizeti, a Y Combinator-backed internet service provider operating in Nigeria, Togo, and Ivory Coast, will list on the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) two years after first sharing its ambitions to become a public company. An Initial Public Offering... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Zenith Bank Tech Fair 4.0: A Glimpse into the Future of Finance and Technology | On November 21, 2024, Zenith Bank will host its Fourth Edition of the Tech Fair, aptly named “Future Forward 4.0.” This event promises to be a melting pot of innovation, showcasing the latest advancements in technology that are reshaping th... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Zenith Bank Unveils Zenith Tech Fair 4.0, Features Global IT Practitioners | The Fourth Edition of the Zenith Bank Tech Fair, tagged “Future Forward 4.0: Embedded Finance, Cybersecurity & Growth Imperatives – The Impact of AI”, is set to hold on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at the Eko Convention Centre, Eko Hote... |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Funke Opeke steps down from MainOne as Equinix drives future strategy | READ MORE Liberia sets July 2025 deadline for SIM card registration linked to national ID cards
Following Equinix's acquisition, MainOne has continued to operate under its established brand, now as "MainOne, Solutions by Equinix."... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | The Spectrum Showdown: Navigating the 6GHz Band and Connectivity Future | The battle for the 6GHz spectrum is heating up. It’s a clash of titans: cellular operators versus the Wi-Fi industry. Both sides are vying for a piece of the bandwidth pie. The stakes are high. Connectivity is the lifeblood of modern societ... |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Equinix finalizes MainOne integration, employees get new contracts and pay bump | Equinix, the world’s largest global data center and colocation provider, has completed the post-acquisition integration of Nigeria’s MainOne following a $320 million acquisition in 2022.
Post-merger integrations combine and rearrange two en... |
| Aug 19, 2024 | MTN Nigeria: Navigating Financial Waters and Regulatory Storms | In the bustling landscape of Nigeria's telecommunications sector, MTN Nigeria stands as a titan. Yet, even giants face storms. Recently, MTN has made headlines for two significant developments: a strategic renegotiation of tower leases and ... |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Osun government, MTN Nigeria lock horns over N1 billion Right of Way fee demand | Tech giant, MTN Nigeria, is currently locked in a dispute with the Osun State government over an alleged outstanding Right of Way (RoW) fee and penalty worth over N1 billion.
According to documents sighted by Nairametrics, the Osun State Go... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | TLcom-backed Okra expands into cloud services | Okra, a Nigerian fintech whose APIs allow banks and other financial service providers to access customers’ data, is building a cloud infrastructure for businesses to host their data and run workloads. With Nigerian startups keen to reduce c... |
| May 24, 2024 | Google launches first undersea fibre cable linking Africa and Australia | Google has pledged to invest $1 billion in Africa over five years for digital projects. Image: Pixabay
The launch of the first-ever submarine cable route between Africa and Australia has been announced.
“This initiative is crucial in ensuri... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Africa: Why Internet Disruptions Have Rocked Parts of Africa | Damages on multiple undersea telecommunication cables are the cause of a far-reaching connection outage that rocked parts of the African continent last week, with operators and Internet watch groups warning that the situation could take wee... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Nigeria: Undersea Cable Cut - Nigerians' Data Secured - NIMC | The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has dismissed that its database was compromised as a result of the undersea cable cut which disrupted the services of banks and telecom operators in Nigeria.
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| Mar 17, 2024 | Nigeria: Undersea Cable Cut - Mainone Provides More Info, Says Service Restored to Some Customers | "The repair time is to enable our services to become fully restored and independently supply capacity to customers."
MainOne, a Digital Infrastructure Service Provider, on Saturday, said that it had restored service to some custom... |
| Mar 16, 2024 | Angola: Submarine Cables Cut Causes Minimal Impact On the Internet | Luanda — The telecommunications company Angola Cables acknowledges the existence of a minimal impact on the failure of internet access, as a result of the cut in international submarine cables WACS, SAT-3, MainOne and ACE, located on the We... |
| Mar 16, 2024 | West Africa: Full Internet Restoration in Nigeria, Others May Take a Month As Mainone Provides Details | The repair of the undersea cable cut that has affected internet services in Nigeria and many parts of sub-Saharan Africa may take about five weeks to be completed, MainOne said in a Friday statement.
MainOne, whose facilities provide intern... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected | Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries.
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Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Th... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Multiple subsea cable breaks causing internet chaos in South Africa | Widespread problems were affecting the internet in South Africa on Thursday due to multiple undersea cable breaks.
“Multiple undersea cable failures between South Africa and Europe are currently impacting South Africa’s network providers, i... |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Why MainOne’s internet submarine cable in Akwa Ibom comes with high expecations | Nigerian telecommunications company, MainOne has launched an Internet submarine cable in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The subsea cable, which is owned by 2Africa Consortium, led by Meta and managed by MainOne, is part of a greater plan to expand the... |
| Mar 8, 2023 | IWD 2023: MTN celebrates women making strides in the ICT sector
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Success! | International Women’s Day (IWD) offers women all over the world an occasion to assert their identity, accomplishments, and collective progress. It’s a time when we spotlight women who are making strides in various industries. The theme for ... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | African tech companies are raising funds, but laying off workers | After what many would call a headline year, 2022 has not been a great year for global tech. Earlier in the year, much of the talk in the tech sector focused on falling valuations, dropping stock prices and slower funding rounds. Now, the la... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Google’s Internet cable, Equiano, lands in Nigeria; here’s how it could change your Internet experience | Share this article:
Google has announced the launch of Equiano, a state of the art submarine Internet cable, which is set to land in Lagos, Nigeria.
Google, alongside one of its major partners, West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), made ... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | There are more private equity exits than there have been in 2 decades. How long will it last? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Dec 8, 2021 | There are more private equity exits than there have been in 2 decades. How long will it last? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Dec 7, 2021 | Funke Opeke’s MainOne set to be acquired for $320m by US giant Equinix | MainOne, a West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire is set to be acquired for $320 million by American multinational Equinix Inc., the US company said in a statement T... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Equinix is acquiring Nigeria’s MainOne for $320M as it expands into Africa | Equinix announced today that it is acquiring MainOne, a West African data center and connectivity solutions provider with a presence in Nigeria, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, for $320 million.
The acquisition is expected to close Q1 of 2022, s... |
| Aug 9, 2021 | The Ghanaian attraction, Decagon’s seed round, yet another name change, MTN Nigeria at 20 | Share this article:
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| Aug 9, 2021 | MDXI-MainOne Consolidates Position in Building West African Digital Ecosystem | The company has used its affiliation with the MainOne Group, presence in multiple countries, and access to all major operators across the region
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| Aug 6, 2021 | MainOne’s new data centre could usher in exciting connectivity age in Ghana | Share this article:
In recent years, Africa has gradually become home to exciting innovations. Startups, raising capital in billions, are birthing disruptive models across sectors, and global tech giants are extending their tentacles to the... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | GreenTec’s Tomi Davies joined virtual panel focused on the Acceleration of Digitalization | Frankfurt, Germany & Lagos, Nigeria GreenTec Capital is pleased to share that Tomi (TD) Davies, its Chief Investment Officer, participated in Nerds Unite 2021 panel webinar focused on “Acceleration of Digitalization” moderated by Ms. Li... |
| Dec 31, 2020 | The 10 most memorable Nigerian tech moments of 2020 | Share this article:
When we gave you our 10 most memorable Nigerian tech moments of 2019, we left you with this:
“It’s been a memorable year; we can only hope that 2020 will come with more unforgettable moments too.”
What we didn’t know was... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | How Francophone Africa tech players are breaking down barriers in search of recognition | Share this article:
According to the World Bank, Francophone Africa will have 62.5% of Africa’s fastest-growing economies by 2021.
This is in addition to the organisation’s World Economic Outlook report stating that the economic growth rate... |
| Aug 30, 2020 | Techpoint Awards 2020: Complete list of winners and Hall of Fame inductees | Share this article:
Editor’s note [Updated on September 18, 2020]: Following GIG Logistics’ request to exercise its legal rights, the company has been removed from the finalists in the Logistics Category of the Awards.
On January 1, 2020, T... |
| Aug 7, 2020 | How smartphone subsidies can give millions of Africans Internet access | Share this article:
In 2018, the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) predicted that by 2025, sub-Saharan Africa would have experienced a 130% growth in the number of Internet users compared to 2017.
While it may be too soon to co... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | One decade of connecting Africa to the Internet, a personal insight into MainOne’s journey | This month Main One Cable marked 10 years of being in operation. As Technical Project Lead and one of the pioneer staff to Main One working with the visionary CEO Funke Opeke it feels amazing to mark such an amazing milestone with the teams... |
| Dec 3, 2019 | Mainone launches submarine cable connectivity in Cote d’Ivoire | Share this:
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| Oct 22, 2019 | Introducing Techpoint Startup School, Enrol Now!!! | Share this article:
Over the years Techpoint has supported African entrepreneurs to build successful businesses. This has been made possible through our conferences and publishing platform which tell inspiring stories that continue to chang... |
| Oct 3, 2019 | MainOne lands submarine cable in Cote D’Ivoire | Share this:
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| May 29, 2019 | MainOne to commit N25 Billion to digitization of Lagos | Funke Opeke, CEO, MainOne
Leading connectivity and data centre solutions provider, MainOne launches its “Digital Lagos: Broadband for All” campaign initiative to enable the digital transformation of Lagos state through the deployment of ubi... |
| May 22, 2019 | MainOne to commit $70 million to digitisation of Lagos | Share this:
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| May 16, 2019 | MainOne set to launch data centre in Cote D’Ivoire | MainOne has started working on its commitment to deepen broadband access across West Africa via fibre infrastructure and data centres, following the issuance of a submarine cable landing licence to MainOne by the government of Cote D’Ivoire... |
| Feb 26, 2019 | MainOne and Facebook announce open-access fiber network in Nigeria | Share this:
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| Dec 4, 2018 | Bringing internet to the masses and investing in telecoms at Startup Battlefield Africa | Despite a year-end goal of 30 percent broadband internet penetration in Nigeria, the country is unlikely to hit that target. As of 2017, internet penetration in Nigeria was at 22 percent — among the lowest in the world, according to the ICT... |
| Nov 13, 2018 | Google goes down after major BGP mishap routes traffic through China | Enlarge
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| Sep 18, 2018 | Orange reinforces its connectivity on the West African Coast | Orange and MainOne Cable Company have announced a partnership that will allow for a major investment by Orange in the West Africa submarine cable system. Through this partnership Orange will acquire additional capacity, thereby reinforcing ... |
| Jan 19, 2018 | West and Central Africa connects to the global R&E network to unleash its potential | Cambridge and Accra |19 January 2018 - The EU-funded AfricaConnect2 project has just announced that, following the tender call to connect West and Central (W&C) Africa back in June 2016, GÉANT has awarded a 15-year contract to MainOne f... |
| Jul 4, 2017 | Rejoice West Africa, your internet is fully back | Share this article:
Two weeks after a near crippling partial internet outage in Nigeria and other West African countries it serves, MainOne has announced that its submarine cable system that lost communication on Sunday 18th of June 2017 is... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | Why you’ve been experiencing poor internet service since last weekend | Share this article:
If you’ve been experiencing poor internet service of late, you are not alone. Many users have been sharing their unpleasant experiences on social media since Sunday, June 18th and the situation doesn’t seem to be improvi... |
| May 5, 2017 | 5 things you didn’t know about Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne | Share this article:
The idea of running a 7,000-kilometre undersea high capacity cable submarine from Portugal to Lagos, Nigeria seemed unachievable, too ambitious and maybe utterly ridiculous but Funke Opeke had a vision and she was willin... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | MainOne has launched an affordable service plan for SMEs in Lagos | Today, MainOne announced the launch of a service that’s suited for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. Officially named SME-in-a-Box, the service combines high-speed internet, fixed-voice and cloud solutions in affordable packag... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | Not Another African Tech Article | Clinton Mutambo Contributor
Clinton Mutambo is the founder of Esaja.com.
The great continent of Africa seems to be the flavor of the month. As the world wakes up to its potential, I can’t help but cringe each time an “African tech” article ... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | 9 tech companies building Nigeria’s future | Share this article:
Editor’s note: This article was published in 2015 and was relevant to its time.
Over the course of the last 5 years, we have seen the rise of many technology powered companies trying to address Nigerian problems with the... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | MainOne unveils Africa’s largest data centre | Share this article:
UPDATE: Inside MainOne’s top secret Data Centre in Lagos (full pictorial tour)
MainOne last week unveiled its premier Tier III Lekki Data Center to address the growing demand for Colocation, Cloud and Disaster Recovery S... |
