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Massive BCS fiber route & Orange digital center coming to DRC
Cloud Networking
Massive BCS fiber route & Orange digital center coming to DRCMassive BCS fiber route & Orange digital center coming to DRC

Telecoms company Bandwidth and Cloud Services (BCS) has signed an agreement with the European Investment Bank to build a 1,200km fiber network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Orange has also launched its 15th African digital center in the country.

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Africa Data Centres begins $83M SA expansion
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Equinix closes $320M MainOne deal for African expansion
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Raxio Group investing in Tanzanian data center
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Mar 23, 2022
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Orange converting main African data center to solar
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Jan 17, 2022
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SA's Teraco selling majority stake to Digital Realty
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byPaula Gilbert, Editor
Raxio plots African growth with data center in Uganda
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SA Companies Back Away From Public Cloud
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