For the third consecutive year, West Africa’s leading connectivity and data center Solutions Company, MainOne has provided internet connectivity to participants at Social Media Week Lagos as the exclusive technology partner. In a partnership targeted at delivering true value to the organizers and event guests MainOne designed and installed an advanced managed Wi-Fi solution at […]
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Technology is the only way to truly move Africa forward, says an author and media contributor, Mr Nnamdi Oranye. Oranye who is the author of ‘Disrupting Africa: The Rise and Rise of African Innovation’, gave a keynote address titled ‘Disrupting the Nigerian ICT industry’ at Nerds Unite 2018, the annual flagship event organized by MainOne.
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Seven submarine cable systems and an estimated combined capacity of 40+Tbps completed in sub-Saharan Africa since 2009 have transformed the availability of bandwidth in Africa’s coastal regions. Most African countries now have some form of fiber connectivity to one or more submarine cable landing stations. Meanwhile, competition has crashed the wholesale price-per-megabit-per-second by over 80%.
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MainOne will for the third time host ICT stakeholders at its annual flagship event, Nerds Unite. With a focus on digital disruption with the theme “Radical Digital Transformation”, the 2018 edition will feature a keynote address from the author of Disrupting Africa: The Rise & Rise of African Innovation, Nnamdi Oranye supported by speakers from
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MainOne Chief Executive Officer, Funke Opeke was last week, featured on ‘CNN Marketplace Africa’, a programme, which showcased a delegation from Nigeria as they visited the United States to learn how to improve broadband capabilities in the country. Designed to expose the delegates to some of the challenges the country must overcome in order to
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Though power availability in Nigeria may be the bane for other data centers and enterprises, General Manager of the MainOne Data Center subsidiary, MDXI, Mr. Gbenga Adegbiji has said that the MDXI data center is achieving almost 100% power uptime availability, with a surmountable 90+% of that power coming directly from the national grid. He
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Following a highly competitive and non-discriminatory bidding process involving leading communications operators in Africa, leading Connectivity and Data Center solutions provider, MainOne has emerged winner of a 15-year contract with the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) to provide high-speed bandwidth services. WACREN, the regional research and education network (REN) that facilitates
MainOne Chief Executive Officer, Funke Opeke was interviewed on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 on Business Morning, a daily breakfast show on Channels Television where she discussed ‘Broadband, Technology and the Nigerian Economy’ with prolific TV presenter, Boason Omofaye. Speaking on the theme ‘Broadening the broadband business in Nigeria’, she highlighted the current broadband landscape in
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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 for connectivity services. By signing the contract through AfricaConnect2, WACREN, the regional Research and Education Network in West and Central Africa, will join the
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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 for connectivity services. By signing the contract through AfricaConnect2, WACREN, the regional Research and Education Network in West and Central Africa, will join the
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