Aston Lukoye
ICT company SEACOM that’s headquarters in Mauritius has proclaimed the acquisition of the assets of Africell African country restricted that last year exited the Ugandan market.
The company proclaimed on Thursday that having earlier nonheritable Kenyan service supplier Hirani Telecom’s metropolitan fibre network, they’re observing increasing any its footprint within the East African region by effort Africell assets.
By formally establishing ourselves in African country through proprietary facilities and resources, we tend to area unit prioritising widespread property and gap up opportunities to figure with businesses in search of quality Internet services,” aforementioned SEACOM East and North-East Africa Managing Director and regional head of sales Tejpal Bedi.
SEACOM has been in African country since its beginning in 2009 and has been providing wholesale solutions since then whereas company} has conjointly provided corporate ICT solutions since 2018.
The company conjointly says it’s an oversized footprint in Uganda’s financial services sector and works with government and NGOs together with those in education, technology and cordial reception sectors.
Tejpal but explained that through the takeover of Africell assets in African country, Seacom can take over a comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure essential for connecting enterprise customers, together with 760 kilometre of fibre among the Ugandan capital town of Kampala and close cities, a 250 m2 data centre and workplace house for its representatives and workers members.
SEACOM East and North-East Africa Managing Director added that whereas African country is dominated by tiny businesses, it’s home to a thriving non-public sector with thousands of medium to large-sized businesses situated primarily across Kampala and therefore the central region.
“There is additionally a growing web penetration rate with competitive property costs compared with different countries within the region,” he said.
He noted that the any growth into East Africa and the acquisition of established infrastructure will modify Seacom to produce seamless integration of its services for purchasers across African country, African country and African country.
It will conjointly decrease the reliance on third-party last-mile suppliers to deliver connectivity solutions, including wireless and fibre web access and cloud property, furthermore as hosting facilities, like email, and security, like distributed denial of service protection package.
“Seacom is responding to the wants of the market. Customers area unit setting out to get additional information measure. Businesses area unit creating use of the cloud like ne’er before, exploitation enterprise resource designing, workplace 365 and client relationship management solutions that serve not simply to fill gaps, however aid in driving digital transformation and strengthening internal and external capabilities.”
