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2Africa cable lands at Port Said, Egypt
The latest landing of the 2Africa cable has been announced: it’s at Port Said, at the northern end of the Suez Canal, on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.
The 2Africa cable had already landed at Telecom Egypt’s cable landing station in Ras Ghareb on the eastern coast of Egypt, in November 2022.
As the Data Centre Dynamics website points out, the Suez Canal is a major thoroughfare for subsea cables crossing between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Despite this, this is only the second cable landing at Port Said following Telecom Egypt’s Red2Med cable that launched last year.
However, Data Centre Dynamics adds, the Africa-1, FEA, Medusa, India-Europe-Xpress (IEX), and SeaMeWe6 cables are all due to land at Port Said over the next two years.
Announced in 2020 by a consortium that includes Meta, Telecom Egypt, China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Vodafone, and WIOCC, the 2Africa cable, which will circle the African continent is, at 45,000km, among the world’s largest subsea cable projects. It will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points across Africa, Europe, and Asia when it is complete.
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is responsible for manufacturing and deploying the 16-fibre pair, 180Tbps cable, which is due for completion in 2024. 2Africa has already landed at a number of points in Europe and Africa as well as Saudi Arabia through the Pearls extension, which will also take the cable to Mumbai in India.
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Colo Bytes: AMS-IX, MDXi, CoreSite, DataBank, GI Partners
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Tuesday Bytes: Sparkle, Infinera, Ribbon, Nokia
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TOTEM, the Orange TowerCo subsidiary, deploys a next-generation 5G network at the Orange Vélodrome
Press release
To meet the growing connectivity needs of the Orange Vélodrome, TOTEM, Orange’s European Tower Company, has deployed a next generation 5G network at the stadium. This makes the Orange Vélodrome the first French stadium to benefit from this level of 5G connectivity. This is particularly important to meet the high expectations of fans, organizers, and the media ahead of major sports events such as the next Olympique de Marseille (OM) matches and international competitions.
To achieve this, TOTEM has deployed a DAS (Distributed Antenna System) infrastructure with next-generation antennas designed specifically for venues with high mobile phone usage to provide consistent, high-quality network coverage and high levels of energy efficiency. This network of private pooled antennas is made available to all operators to provide all their mobile services simultaneously, while ensuring that Orange Vélodrome teams have a single, neutral point of contact. Through this pooling, TOTEM meets the expectations of the Orange Vélodrome in terms of optimizing the equipment footprint and allows operators to consume less energy.
The four French operators, Bouygues Télécom, Free Mobile, Orange and SFR, connected today their equipment to the antenna infrastructure deployed by TOTEM and can now offer 5G to their end customers within the Orange Vélodrome. As a Tower Company, TOTEM ensures that all its operator customers have access to the infrastructure, allowing them to operate their respective networks in the best conditions.
“Connecting an indoor environment to the latest generation of 5G, which can be used by almost 68,000 people at the same time, is a real technical challenge. To connect the Orange Vélodrome, TOTEM has built the first network of its kind in France, capable of meeting the connectivity needs of the biggest sports events. The equipment deployed by TOTEM is the same successfully deployed solution at major competitions in the US and will make the Orange Vélodrome the first stadium in France to have such advanced 5G connectivity,” says Thierry Papin, CEO of TOTEM France.
About TOTEM:
TOTEM is Orange’s European TowerCo subsidiary. Operating in France and Spain as of November 1, 2021, TOTEM manages over 27,000 tower sites, flat roofs and other sites in these two countries. TOTEM aims to become a leader on the TowerCo market in Europe.
As a neutral player, TOTEM offers connectivity and hosting solutions enabling operators to go further in their coverage projects wherever and whenever sharing infrastructures makes sense. As the industrial partner of operators, regional authorities, lessors and business, connectivity for everyone and everywhere is a major priority for TOTEM.
To find out more got to: https://www.totemtowers.com/
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Cellcom and Parallel Wireless claim 5G SA first in Israel
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NCTC seals exclusive MVNO deal with AT&T
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Nearly 700 small and mid-sized independent cable operators will now be able to offer mobile services without building their own mobile networks
The National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) has signed a deal making AT&T the exclusive mobile carrier for members’ MVNO offerings. CEO Lou Borrelli said that NCTC chose AT&T for the partnership for a number of reasons but emphasised the importance of AT&T’s “current network availability and performance’.
The announcement comes about six weeks after NCTC finalised a partnership with Reach to provide a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that will support the mobile program.
This is AT&T’s first major MVNO deal with the US cable industry. Borrelli told Fierce Wireless that “the fact that AT&T hasn’t done this with any of the other cable guys is something pretty significant”.
A “core group of members” have been involved in the research and negotiation process and these 50 members are expected to launch their mobile offerings as early as June. An additional group of 60-80 member companies have indicated an interest in launching MVNOs, although it is too early to be sure whether they will do so.
NCTC has indicated that there will be a range of onboarding options for members depending on their size, resources and degree of risk they are willing to shoulder. The simplest onboarding option could see MVNOs set up within a matter of weeks.
Members will be able to choose from a variety of pre-determined rate plans, but also have the flexibility to price their own products and bundle mobile and broadband offerings.
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Industry Spotlight: Accenture’s Andrew Walker on the State of Telecoms
For today’s interview, we have a return visit from Accenture’s Andrew Walker whom we last talked to just about two years ago. Andrew’s role has expanded from a focus on North America to where he now leads Accenture’s Global Communications & Media consulting division. Andrew has conversations with players from across the sector regularly, developing strategies for business transformation in the age of cloud infrastructure. That puts him in a good position to see things from an outside perspective. … [visit site to read more]
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Cassava, AWS and Vodacom boost spending in South Africa
There’s been good news recently for South Africa’s telecommunications sector, with Cassava Technologies and AWS announcing major investments and Vodacom saying it plans to enhance its network spending.
Integrated technology company Cassava Technologies has pledged a total of R4.5 billion (about US$248 million) in investment in South Africa through its business units Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Africa Data Centres and Distributed Power Africa.
Cassava’s investment pledge comprises key projects, including the expansion of the Liquid Intelligent Technologies fibre network, the extension of Africa Data Centres’ capacity and footprint, enhanced cloud and cybersecurity capacity, and the rollout of clean, renewable energy by Distributed Power Africa in South Africa.
Cassava says its investments will contribute towards positioning South Africa as an attractive investment destination and enable greater inclusion of all South Africans consistent with Cassava’s vision of a digitally connected future that leaves no African behind.
Meanwhile, cloud services provider Amazon Web Services says it will invest up to another R14.8 billion (US$815.6 million) in its cloud infrastructure in South Africa by 2029 on top of the R15.6 billion (US$860 million) it has already invested in the country, notably in Cape Town, where it has built a data centre region.
The total investment, says AWS, aims to contribute R68 billion (US$3.75 billion) to South Africa’s GDP and support more than 5,700 jobs.
Finally, operator Vodacom says it will spend at least R12 billion (US$661 million) per year on average on its network in South Africa over the next five years, well above the average R10 billion US$551 million per year it has spent in the past five years.
As with a similar announcement recently from MTN, much of this is likely to be connected to ensuring network resilience against theft, vandalism and power cuts.
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Mozambique government takes over Tmcel management amid probe
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