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South Africa: Liquid Telecom raises ZAR 5B in rights offer

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October 28, 2020
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Liquid Telecom has raised US$307M (ZAR 5B) through a rights issue to fund a rapid expansion of its data centre business across Africa.

The rights issue included an additional US$40M from UK development finance institution CDC Group, the group said in a statement.

Africa’s largest fibre network operator is planning to expand its data centre unit in five of the continent’s fastest-growing countries including Egypt and Nigeria, said Stephane Duproz, Liquid’s Africa Data Centres head, via e-mail.

Africa has significant untapped economic potential that is being unlocked by improving connectivity, data storage and the use of cloud-based applications
Global technology giants are competing to establish affordable and efficient ways to extend high-speed Internet and data storage across the continent, where demand is picking up as hundreds of millions of people start gaining access to Web services. Although Africa’s data centre capacity has doubled in the past three years, it still accounts for less than 1% of the global total, according to data from Xalam Analytics.

“Africa has significant untapped economic potential that is being unlocked by improving connectivity, data storage and the use of cloud-based applications,” Liquid Telecom CEO Nic Rudnick said in an e-mail.

Also read: Econet to bid for Ethiopian telecoms licence

Scouting for locations
Amazon.com, Huawei Technologies and Microsoft have been among companies investing in data centre capacity in African countries in recent years. The market’s attracting buyout firms as well. Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners acquired a stake in Teraco Data Environments, and Actis invested in Nigeria’s Rack Centre.

Liquid has bought land in Nigeria and Ghana and is scouting for locations in other major countries across the continent, Duproz said. It’s also acquiring a data centre from Standard Bank Group in South Africa, and building another nearby in Johannesburg.

“This will play an important role in addressing the increasing demand for digital services and help close the digital divide between Africa and other regions,” said CDC CEO Nick O’Donohoe. “Investing in Africa’s digital infrastructure is vital for building resilience within African economies and accelerating their growth.”

CDC, funded by the UK government, will invest more than US$1.5B in African and Asian businesses this year.

Liquid Telecom, which is majority-owned by Econet Global, has built more than 70.000km of fibre, and operates five data centres in South Africa, Kenya and Rwanda.

Source: Tech Central

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