The presence of a national broadband plan equates to a 2.5% increase in fixed broadband penetration (7.4% in mobile). African nations should consider updating or creating new plans.

The week-long 20th East African Communications Organization (EACO) Congress and Exhibition addressed issues pertinent to the ICT sector in the East African region.

A new annual report highlights how undersea fibre optic communication cables (including those reaching African shoes) are important to the global economy.

A gallery of terrestrial fibre optic cables that are mapped as part of the African Terrestrial Fibre Optic Cable Mapping Project (AfTerFibre).

Using the common “ping” test between pairs of hosts, researchers at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center regularly measure how well data is flowing across global networks.

African network latency has been decreasing as redundancy has been improving. The result is more robust fibre networks.