MTN lands subsea cable in South Africa to boost Africa’s connectivity
MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with a consortium, have landed a 45,000-kilometre subsea cable in South Africa, part of plans to build a subsea network to connect African countries to Europe and the Middle East. Africa's big economies have a fast growing population of internet users, with growth fuelled by rapidly expanding mobile broadband networks and affordable smartphones. But the continent still lags behind the rest of the world in internet connectivity. "Data traffic across African markets is…