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In response to Eskom\'s plea for South Africans to reduce their electricity usage, Teraco managing director, Lex van Wyk, says South African companies need to fully embrace co-location and recognise the immediate and longstanding positive impact this will have on energy consumption.
ARC Telecoms is the first business-focused telecoms company to implement open peering with NAP Africa
Teraco Data Environments, a provider of colocation data centres, says its capital expenditure (capex) will amount to around R80 million, as more businesses migrate to the cloud.
Troubled state-owned telecommunications wholesaler Broadband Infraco has promised to ramp up its spending from next year as it seeks to establish more network points of presence in towns and cities across the country. Newly appointed chief technical officer Kiruben Pillay tells TechCentral the company is reviewing its build programme. From the new financial year, which begins on 1 April, it will accelerate investment in its network dramatically. In this financial year, Infraco is spending R270,6m on its network, much of which has come from contracts rolled over from last year.
Internet service provider MWeb has completed what it calls a “four-phase infrastructure and backbone upgrade” that now means it’s running a 10Gbit/s connection between SA’s three biggest cities and offering subscribers in Durban a more direct route into its network.