Liquid Telecom, a company that boasts of Africa’s largest single fibre network that spans more than 17,000 km from Uganda to Cape Town has just added capacity to its satellite operation. Liquid Telecom has announced that it has built a satellite hub at Teraco’s vendor-neutral earth station in South Africa in a multi-million dollar investment.
Liquid Telecom says the new satellite hub “enables Liquid Telecom to route African traffic in Africa rather than backhauling it via Europe as many operators need to do. By keeping African data in Africa, Liquid Telecom has reduced latency and increased connectivity speeds for its customers.”
The other advantage of this development is that it will complement existing fibre enabling Liquid Telecom to provide high-speed, cost-effective broadband services to more remote areas where it is neither commercially viable nor practical to lay fibre.
Nic Rudnick, CEO of Liquid Telecom, said “Our fibre and satellite networks complement each other and enable us to meet the ever-increasing demand for connectivity from across Africa. Teraco is the most connected point in southern Africa and our investment in the earth station and the expansion of our satellite capabilities reflects our commitment to building Africa’s digital future.”
Liquid Telecom’s fibre and satellite networks provide a variety of wholesale broadband services including MPLS and VPN systems to cellular, wireless and fixed line providers, ISPs, financial institutions and businesses of all sizes in eastern, central and southern Africa.
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Liquid services are for the rich I think, their services are just too expensive!