Experts believe cables, satellites will fix Africa's connectivity woes

In today’s interconnected world, network outages have far-reaching consequences, cautions Paratus Group CTO Rolf Mendelsohn.

Pan-African telco Paratus Group announces it is providing LEO satellite solutions to clients in SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zambia.

The companies say they will now be able to provide solutions for offshore operations that need high capacity to transmit data at high speed and with low latency.

The Paratus Group announces the construction of its third DC in Angola and fifth in southern Africa.

Paratus will build a OneWeb teleport (gateway) in Angola, which will serve to provide low earth orbit (LEO) services to Angola and surrounding SADC countries.

The OneWeb teleport will be operational in the second half of 2023, and provide low Earth orbit satellite services.

Company details ambition after marking Internet Technologies Angola’s rebrand to Paratus Angola.

Internet Technologies Angola (ITA) to be renamed and rebranded effective beginning July this year.

Paratus partners local ISP GBS to activate 620km fibre optic network.

Kinshasa, whose population has grown to about 17 million, is among the hubs connected by the new link.

ITA/Paratus offers a service running on top of the complete VMware Cloud infrastructure.