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Facebook and a consortium of African and global telecom firms have agreed a deal to build one of the world’s largest underwater or subsea cable networks. This will boost Internet availability across three continents, it focus on Africa, Middle East and some parts of Europe they said in a joint statement on Thursday. 2Africa Source: Tech Africa The partners in this project are South Africa’s MTN GlobalConnect and Mauritius-based infrastructure provider WIOCC are partners in the project, along with China Mobile International, French telecoms major Orange SA, Saudi Arabia’s stc, Telecom Egypt, and Vodafone. The project, called 2Africa, aims to build 37,000 kilometres of subsea cable infrastructure which will directly connect countries around the African coast to Europe and the Middle East, according to its website. The network will have a design capacity of up to 150 terabytes per second (Tbps) on key parts of the system, according to the site . The 11 new cables rolled ...

The internet users increased marginally to 98.3million in November, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for December 2017 on its website on Thursday in Abuja. According to the data, Airtel, MTN and Glo gained more internet subscribers during the month in review while 9mobile was the big loser. The data also showed that overall, internet users increased by 98,391,456 in December from 94, 818,553 in November showing an increase 3, 572,903. The data breakdown revealed that MTN gained the most with 2,642.666, new internet users increasing its subscription in December to 36,069,597, from 33,426,931 in November. It showed that 9mobile lost 68,341 internet users in December decreasing its subscription to 11,338.839 as against November when it recorded 11,407,180. It said Airtel gained the most with 911,040 new internet users in December amounting to 23,985.203 users as against...

A web designer,  Abiodun Oluwatosin,   said on Friday that creating website address for a Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can serve as a bridge between them and their target audience.  Oluwatosin made this known in Abuja. He said to make their businesses more visible, SMEs should obtain website addresses that would bridge the gap between them and their target audience. “With the trend of things in the world now, every individual and small business has one thing or the other to do on the web and it makes it a good tool to reach reasonable number of people at very little cost. “It is necessary for start-ups to own their websites as it is far better and cheaper than the traditional means of reaching out to their clients. “SMEs can leverage on this for their clients to see them out there because it could be very expensive to do the traditional radio and television publication. “But with the website, it is a room for you to bridge the cyber optic level to attra...