Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) and Liquid Telecom have signed an agreement to extend affordable internet to Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda. Liquid Telecom will lease Ketraco's electricity transmission lines to carry internet traffic from the undersea cables that terminate at the port of Mombasa to the rest of East Africa. ...
Liquid Telecom has announced it will be opening up its network to Serianu for advanced monitoring and incident response services in a new partnership to improve cybersecurity standards and practices across Africa. According to Ben Roberts, Group CTIO at Liquid Telecom, “While digital transformation presents vast opportunity for businesses today in Africa, ...
Liquid Telecom has partnered with Strathmore Business School (SBS) to launch a new data analytics centre focused on data-driven research and practices for African businesses. Under the partnership, Liquid Telecom will provide the new Strathmore Africa Analytics Data Centre with dedicated rack space and colocation services at East Africa Data ...
Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) is getting into the fibre-to-the home business after a deal with Liquid Telecom Kenya. The electricity transmission firm has contracted Liquid Telecom Kenya to run its fibre-to-the home business for ten years. The deal will see Liquid Telecom upgrade fibre connections to Kenyan areas already ...
St. Francis Community Hospital, a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya has moved to Teleradiology technology to cut waiting times and costs for X-rays and CT scans. By getting real-time expert diagnoses from images that are relayed via high-speed internet provided by Liquid Telecom Kenya, the remote reporting is delivering radiological diagnoses ...
Liquid Telecom Kenya has put in place several strategies to build Internet infrastructure in the country in almost all counties. The firm has laid 4200km of fibre cable Internet infrastructure, launched hi-speed rural satellite, partnered with the private sector to deliver 'Hai buildings' that offer its low cost Internet service, ...
It is estimated that the livestock farming alone contributes to 7.9 – 10 per cent of Kenya’s GDP with the poultry industry contributing an estimated 1.7 per cent. Poultry agriculture has emerged as a lucrative venture for young farmers, particularly among small-scale farmers, which support over 70 per cent of ...
Liquid Telecom and Kwale County have partnered to launch free street Wi-Fi in Baraza Park and Ukunda and an online services portal, KwalePay, a one-stop online gateway to all the county government’s services, meaning residents can get business licences, pay land rent and access council services from their mobile phones, ...
Liquid Telecom has appointed Raj Jandu as Neotel CFO and Michael Allschwang as Neotel's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer after Liquid Telecom Group completed Neotel's acquisition in February this year. Raj was Liquid Telecom CFO for the east Africa region since 2013, overseeing the financial management and growth of the ...
Microsoft East Africa and Liquid Telecom have joined forces to improve and accelerate the use of cloud services across Africa. The joint project will help boost the continent's access to world-class software. Microsoft has a long-term strategic vision to enable affordable broadband access to its customers to empower business and ...
Liquid Telecom Kenya has saved one-third of its 2016 fuel costs after it introduced a carpooling scheme for staff in sales, technical, and management teams, which saw it spent Ksh 9.3m in the second half of 2016, compared with Ksh 13m for the same period a year earlier. The carpooling ...
Liquid Telecom Group has acquired a majority stake in Raha, Tanzania’s leading Internet Service Provider marking its entry into Tanzania with over 1500 businesses on its network accessing fibre, satellite, WiMAX and Wi-Fi services. The transaction details were not disclosed. “We are very pleased to announce that this transaction has ...
Launched in August last year after a series of trials and set up, poa! Internet has turned to Liquid Telecom Kenya to bolster its capacity and scale with the two unveiling a functional Internet model today. Focused on Kibera slums, the service is delivered using solar powered hotspots and is ...
Liquid Telecom was named Best African Wholesale Carrier for the fifth consecutive year, with the company recognised for its dynamism, ongoing innovation and overall excellence. Over the last five years, Liquid Telecom has beaten off competition from some of the largest wholesale carriers in Africa. Receiving the award again in 2016 ...
Wi-Fi networks built in Kenya by Liquid Telecom and the Kenya's Office of the President (Kenya) were named as the Best Connecting the Unconnected Initiative in the world at the fourth Global Telecoms Awards. The network designed in the Nakuru BilaWaya initiative, which covers a 10-kilometre radius from the city's ...
Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and Liquid Telecom have agreed to enter into a joint venture. The agreement will see BPC lease excess optical fibres from its network to Liquid Telecom, creating a new telecoms network provider with extensive reach across Botswana. The agreement was signed by Jacob Raleru, CEO at ...
Africa is facing a potential slowing down of digital growth with the imminent running out of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses as from next year, Liquid Telecom has warned. Basically, IP addresses and are used behind the scenes whenever data is moved online. The Daily Nation reports that Africa is presently ...
Ben Amadasun, CEO Kwese Free Sports Econet Media today launched its free to air sports channel, Kwesé Free Sports TV promising to give viewers in Kenya one free live English Premier League match every Saturday and previews and reviews of every match played in the EPL, ...
Liquid Telecom is investing KSh54m into a state-of-the-art metro network in Kisumu in partnership with the County government that will increase Internet speeds in the lakeside city ten-fold, making Kisumu City Kenya’s first “Smart City” in the next two years. On completion, the 12.4km metro network will cover Kisumu Central Business District, ...
Econet’s Kwese Sports, a soon-to-be launched satellite and broadcasting network, has acquired rights to broadcast the English Premier League into 50 countries in Africa bringing a slight competition to Multichoice’s DStv. The firm announced that Econet Media has acquired the package of free-to-air broadcasting rights that it makes available in ...
Internet provider Liquid Telecom Kenya is moving to offer fibre connections to homes and small businesses through its retail brand, Hai. The firm announced the move yesterday after completing its new Nairobi Metro network, a 4200km cable network built as part of its Sh20.3bn Internet infrastructure investment programme in Kenya. ...
Liquid Telecom has acquired 10% of Realtime, the second largest Internet Service Provider in Zambia and will vend Liquid's 100Mbps FTTH and satellite offerings to homes and businesses of all sizes across Zambia, as well as its existing WiMAX network. The FTTHservice is initially available to 15,600 homes and businesses ...
All 24 branches of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) will now have access to the internet links to the world’s satellite communication network, allowing faster and more efficient banking services for its South Sudanese customers. This is thanks to a Liquid Telecom Kenya partnership with KCB, that saw the banks ...
To date, broadband services in Victoria Falls have mostly been via ADSL links, WiMAX and cellular services such as CDMA and 3G/EDGE which offer speeds of no more than 512kbps. Now both homes and businesses in Victoria falls Zimbabwe will soon benefit from a 100 mbps broadband connection after Liquid ...
Nakuru residents are yet again the recipients of free as Liquid Telecom Kenya has partnered with the Nakuru County Government to launch high capacity free Wifi in Nakuru. This will see the residents of Nakuru County enjoy a free, fast and reliable public street Wifi connection, enabling rapid access to ...
CEC Liquid Telecom has launched its Fibre To The Home (FTTH) service in Zambia promising up to 100Mbps broadband speeds to homes and businesses with unlimited data packages. The FTTH is expected to enable businesses to use cloud-based services such as Microsoft 365, Dropbox and online backups; as well as ...
Data, voice and IP provider Liquid Telecom Kenya has invested between $340,000 and $400,000 to revamp the stalled Nakuru Wi-Fi project, a move that will see over 1,600,000 Nakuru residents enjoy free Wi-Fi in the CBD, stadium, the market and several adjacent areas to the CBD of the fourth largest urban ...
Liquid Telecom-owned Infocom recently unveiled a major upgrade of its international Internet gateway in Kampala to provide 16 times more international Internet capacity. One of the major upgrades is the installation of Core Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing system designed for long-haul and ultra long-haul optical networking applications. This has increased ...
Hans Haerdtle CEO, Liquid Telecom Uganda. Just days after the firm announced a $34 billion investment in Rwanda to extend its cable network, data, voice and IP provider in eastern, central and southern Africa, Liquid Telecom has announced a UGX 2 bn of investment in ...
Liquid Telecom has been named the VSAT Provider of the Year at this year’s SatCom Star Awards, which honour the top satellite and telecommunications projects and influencers throughout Africa. Now in their 17th year, The SatCom Star Awards ceremony was held in Johannesburg last night with Liquid Telecom beating off ...
