With Capacity Europe 2022 less than a month away, it’s time to get excited for Europe’s largest telecom networking conference.
This year’s event—centered around the future of the digital infrastructure network—will be held October 18-20 in London.
And to make a great thing even better, TeleGeography’s own Research Director Rob Schult will be among the list of speakers.
Africa’s mobile communications market continues to grow at a steady pace. And take up shows no signs of slowing.
Subscription numbers were up 5% in 2021, following growth of 7% the year before and 6% in 2019.
According to figures from our GlobalComms Database, at the end of 2021 the continent was home to 1.22 billion mobile subscriptions, up from 1.16 billion 12 months earlier.
If you want a single, simple number to identify the best-connected provider in the world, you may come away disappointed.
There are several ways to measure connectivity, and each highlights different strengths and weaknesses of a provider’s presence.
One basic metric is to count the number of unique Autonomous Systems (AS) to which a backbone provider connects, while filtering out internal company connections.
Here’s what we found.
New presentation alert.
Research Analyst Marvin Tan recently joined Ciena and Hawaiki for a webinar highlighting trans-Pacific submarine network opportunities.
The internet continues its return to normal—however one chooses to define this term—in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With our newly updated Global Internet Geography Research Service,we conclude that the COVID-related expansion of internet traffic and bandwidth was largely a one-off phenomenon, and that the trends we had been observing in recent years have reasserted themselves.
International internet bandwidth and traffic growth have been gradually slowing in recent years, but they remain brisk.
Let's talk about that a bit.
Last month, it was revealed that South Africa’s MTN Group received a $31 million offer from an unnamed buyer for 100% of the shares in its Afghanistan subsidiary. The deal means that MTN is another step closer to exiting the Middle East.
Today, we take a look at how MTN set about dismantling its Middle Eastern portfolio and examine its exit strategy.
Last week, Senior Research Manager Patrick Christian shared an African network geography update with the African Peering and Interconnection Forum.
Patrick's keynote showcased fresh TeleGeography data with a look at global bandwidth trends, followed by a deeper dive into African network trends.
If you weren't among the audience in Kigali, you can still catch the recording below.
What are your plans for mid-September? Attending Datacloud USA 2022, perhaps?
This two-day event will offer networking opportunities and exclusive thought-leadership with experts across data center, cloud, edge, HPC, content, big tech, and regional and international enterprise.
It's all going down September 14–15, 2022 in Austin, Texas.
If you've ever made a “telephone” with a pair of tin cans and a string, you have an idea of how the Internet works.
Even in 2022, modern global telecommunications still functions in a somewhat similar manner.
The trans-Atlantic submarine corridor was a hot topic when VP of Research Tim Stronge joined Ciena for a live presentation back in June.
Now it's time to shift our attention to the trans-Pacific. And Research Analyst Marvin Tan has just the data to share.
