2. Liquid Telecom
We are the largest independent data, voice and
IP service provider in Eastern, Central,
and Southern Africa
We supply wholesale fibre optic,
satellite and international carrier services,
all on our own infrastructure
We also provide technology solutions, cloud services
and payment platforms for multi-national corporations
and African businesses
Building Africa’s digital future
3. It has been a long journey
• Rivers
• Savannahs
• Jungles
• Deserts
• Wild animals
• Regulators
We’ve overcome many obstacles…
7. Africa presents a unique and challenging
environment – but African carriers have learnt to
adapt to succeed
Fibre to the Hut
Being the first is
never easy – but it
means we can set
the rules
8. • Operating numerous wholesale,
enterprise & retail brands across 15
countries, with targeted expansion into
new markets
• The largest single-provider network in
Africa, spanning over 60,000kms
• Diverse and resilient fibre transmission
routes with connections to five
sub-sea cable systems
• Tier-3 design data centers in Southern &
East Africa
• Provider of global & intra-Africa IP transit,
international / cross border / national /
metro / FTTx connectivity (MPLS, high
speed Ethernet and legacy SDH)
Put simply, we connect people
Liquid Telecom today
10. Africa’s emerging data centre
market
• Major data centres are emerging in key African markets including South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria
• Needed to support growing demand for cloud services from African businesses
• Will also be important for addressing data privacy and sovereignty concerns
11. 1997
Founded as a
satellite and voice
operator Econet
Satellite Services
2009
Launched high speed
fibre linking
Zimbabwe to South
Africa and rest of the
world
2012
First fibre link
between Zambia and
DRC completed
2011
Expanded into Zambia
forming CECLiquid
2013
East Africa Data
Centre opens
FTTH in Zimbabwe
Acquire KDN Kenya
Acquire RwandaTel
2014
Launched
South Africa’s first
satellite hub
Acquire Infocom
Uganda
2015
Pan-African agreements
with Airtel and MTN
Ipidi TV launched
now part of Kwese TV
Enterprise expansion
2004
Rebranded
Liquid Telecom
2016
Liquid Sea to build
new subsea cable
Announced agreement
to acquire Neotel &
Raha
Timeline
2017
Raha & Neotel
Integration
Eurobond
12. MOZAMBIQUEANGOLA
ZAMBIA
TANZANIA
DEM. REP. OFCONGO
MALAWI
MAURITANIA MALI
SENEGAL
GUINEA
SIERRA
LEONE
LIBERIA
COTED’IVOIRE
BURKINAFASO
GHANA
NIGERIA
BENIN
TOGO
NIGER
CHAD
CAMEROON
C.A.R.
GABON
CONGO
BRAZAVILLE
RWANDA
BURUNDI
UGANDA
ETHIOPIA
KENYA
SOUTHSUDAN
SOMALIA
NAMIBIA
ZIMBABWE
BOTSWANA
SOUTHAFRICA
LESOTHO
SWAZILAND
WESTERN
SAHARA
MOROCCO
ALGERIA
LIBYA
EGYPT
SUDAN
TUNISIA
ERITREA
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DCDC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
DC
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Building Africa’s Digital
Future
The future continental
backbone
Liquid has since inception pursued a vision
of crossing borders to connect Africa, and
now has the most extensive network on the
continent covering nine countries
Liquid will create the African Digital
Corridor, through build, acquisition, or
partnerships
This for the first time connects all of Africa
on a terrestrial fibre network, promoting
intra-African trade and economic
development
Liquid will combine its existing data centres
with new builds to create Africa’s largest
independent data centre provider with all
data centres connected on a single fibre
network creating the African cloud.
18. Digital Transformation Trends
Utility – business transaction will move to a utilities based model
Big data – an analytical super mine with mass storage in centralised locations
IOT – every single electronic devise will connect and interact
Cloud – enablement of transactional hyper computing
Connectivity – automated provisioning by distributed transport networks
Pervasive computing – ubiquitous user consumption and production
21. Africa Data Centres
• East Africa Data Centre is the first world class, tier-3, carrier neutral facility in
East Africa
• Carrier agnostic
• It offers 99.982% guaranteed availability – although has been running at 100%
since commercial launch in 2012
• Microsoft Azure stack, co-location, rack-space
• South Africa Data Centres in Johannesburg & Cape Town
• Central Africa Data Centre in Harare
23. Liquid Sea
• New subsea cable linking Africa to the Middle East, and onwards to Europe
• Approximately 10,000km
• Speeds of between 10~20Tbps
• Up to 10 times the capacity of existing submarine cables in the region
• Integrated with Liquid Telecom’s terrestrial network
“The impact of Liquid Sea will be a far more reliable and ultra-fast connection
for governments, businesses, schools and homes in both coastal and land-
locked countries across Africa.” – Nic Rudnick
