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The digital infrastructure imperative in African markets

The digital infrastructure imperative in African markets Cell towers in Angola, 2014. (Flickr/jbdodane) Over the past two decades, Chinese companies have come to dominate the telecom infrastructure landscape in emerging markets. Around 50 percent of Africa’s 3G networks and 70 percent of its 4G networks are built by Huawei. The Clean Network initiative was the central Trump administration policy aimed at curbing the expansion of Chinese technology infrastructure but has only found success in getting European countries to agree to use non-Chinese infrastructure in expanding telecom networks. Countries such as the United Kingdom (UK), Czech Republic, and Poland, as well as telecom companies such as Orange and Telstra, notably signed on to the initiative. While there is an expectation of more diplomacy in US-China relations under the Biden administration, the recently established Pentagon task force on China indicates that this administration is just as concerned about the spread of

Why High Altitude Platforms Are Still A Good Bet For African Connectivity

HAPS projects have launched aircraft including solar-powered drones and balloons to beam internet signals in much the same manner as satellites do though unlike communications satellites that typically are in geostationary orbit more than 30 thousand kilometres above the equator, these HAP platforms typical hover only 20km or so above ground, at the lower range of the ITU’s guidelines defining HAPS. Advertisement HAPS projects were initially seen as an alternative to costly geostationary satellites as well as undersea and terrestrial fibre networks, which require massive excavation and cable laying operations. A key feature of the HAP concept is that HAPS craft could be deployed strategically in remote or rugged terrain and other underserved regions.

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